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rhube: rubyvroom: I just learned that Vin Diesel taught Judi Dench how to play Dungeons and Dragons and now she DMs for her grandchildren and I feel better about the world in general. Come on, now: what would you give to be in that game?
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andreblyth: I Need This Now.
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With the release of version 9, I was trying to change the direction and feel of The Castle Doctrine, pushing it away from a puzzle designing-and-solving game and toward a tactical, Roguelike, designing-and-bypassing game. (via The Castle Doctrine)
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When Microsoft announced a special next-generation Kinect for Windows pre-release developer program earlier today, the move got us wondering whether Windows-based tinkerers couldn’t just plug the Kinect that came with the Xbox One into their PC instead, as hackers did almost immediately after the release of the original Kinect for Xbox 360. Unfortunately, the answer…
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Google Finally Admits That Its Infamous Brainteasers Were Completely Useless for Hiring | Computing Education Blog
Google Finally Admits That Its Infamous Brainteasers Were Completely Useless for Hiring | Computing Education Blog Google has found that being great at puzzles doesn’t lead to being a good employee. They also found that GPA’s aren’t good predictors either. Nathan Ensmenger could have told them that. His history The Computer Boys Take Over shows…
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When I read tech writers’ interviews with Engelbart, I imagine these writers interviewing George Orwell, asking in-depth probing questions about his typewriter. A few words on Doug Engelbart (via iamdanw) Engelbart’s vision, from the beginning, was collaborative. His vision was people working together in a shared intellectual space. His entire system was designed around that…
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Nintendo 3DS friend code.
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Initial thoughts upon completing The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
This is the second work by Margaret Atwood that I have read, having just completed the Handmaid’s Tale last month. The Blind Assassin did not end with a hopeful sensation. It is a powerful work. It is a pulp science-fiction fantasy within a lightly fictionalized memoir, within an allegory of power and powerlessness within a…
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New work in progress. Technology tinkering.
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The real reason Google wants to kill RSS – Boing Boing
The real reason Google wants to kill RSS – Boing Boing RSS represents the antithesis of this new world: it’s completely open, decentralized, and owned by nobody, just like the web itself. It allows anyone, large or small, to build something new and disrupt anyone else they’d like because nobody has to fly six salespeople…