Month: June 2013

  • The first day I had the Newton, I hand-wrote a message… I got a phone call in the San Francisco airport on the way to Disneyworld with my kids. And I hand-wrote a message to myself on a notepad paper: Sarah — that’s my daughter — dentist, Tuesday, 2PM. And I saw a button called…

  • mossonrust: tumblr, these ad links. the fuck. the ugly and pointless header and sidebar ads are one unfortunate thing, but putting ad links in peoples content is fucking with the functionality of tumblr. don’t do that shit. 

  • Candor: The Art of Gesticulation on Nowness.com kateoplis: Candor: The Art of Gesticulation, “analyzes the requirements for a successful relationship. Influenced by the early short films of Peter Greenaway as well as Jørgen Leth’s 1967 classic The Perfect Human…" Get out your pen & paper; you’ll want to take notes. Also, read the accompanying text…

  • Setting sedentary baseline metrics on cyborg self gamified wellness. Taking the measure of a (hu)man. Quantify me.

  • gingerhaze: It seems like the topic of conversation lately has been ART SCHOOL: IS IT WORTH IT? It’s been centered mostly around this article by Noah Bradley called Don’t go to art school. It’s a good article and it has some good resources for budding artists. Taking it to heart will be the right choice…

  • Jiminy Wicket, an international organization founded in 2009, is using the simple game of croquet to: • Raise awareness of the disease of dementia • Raise funds for research • Raise the quality of life for those suffering with the disease. Jiminy Wicket was created after Englishman James Creasey played a memorable game of croquet…

  • videogamesmademegay: dirtypeanut: Nate (Lara Croft Genderbend)by *Ulysses0302 “Lawrence Croft” in fuller glory than the original post

  • New Olympic Relays

    kommanderklobb: I did a microtalk this week at Hide & Seek’s Weekender event! On, erm.. the Monday. They asked me to do something about the Olympics, and this is what I came up with. Jerry Carpenter did some drawings for me. You should check out his other stuff, and follow him on Twitter! (and me…

  • It’s hard for me to reconcile EarthBound with any video games I’ve played since. Most games traffic in repetitive gristly thrills, but EarthBound focuses on emotion, on yearning. The team behind Call of Duty promotes the realism of its weaponry, which implies their pride in its resultant gore, but EarthBound’s marketing campaign primarily hinged on…

  • More proof that Microsoft is conceding in the OS wars http://t.co/Xm74rQ1QFI a deal with Klab to bring Xbox and PC games to iOS and Android — Stowe Boyd (@stoweboyd) June 25, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Microsoft continues to move away from a commitment to its own OS and hardware platforms. We’ll be playing Xbox games on iPhones…