A Pepsi commercial on MTV promoting the 1998 MTV music video awards emphasized the fact that the video of the year award would be selected by the viewers through Internet and phone calls live during the show; the commercial dramatized “the power of choice” and reminded us that “you are in charge of your destiny,”…

It gets bet­t­er. There are whole spe­cies of other bots that in­fest the Amazon Mar­ketplace, pre­tend­ing to have used co­p­ies of books, fight­ing epic price wars no one ever sees. So with “Tur­ing Test” we have a de­light­ful futuris­tic ab­surd­ity: a com­put­er pro­gram, pre­tend­ing to be human, hawk­ing a book about com­put­ers pre­tend­ing to be…

It is a sorry state of affairs when the gaming industry, for decades, has produced only a very specific kind of entertainment, and that has resulted in an audience that is now culturally illiterate, has appalling attitudes towards social issues and considers art guilty until proven innocent. Edward Smithhttp://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gamers-vs-art-attitudes-video-games-like-her-story-sunset-are-killing-this-industry-1507887 (via notgames)

Mathematics are very little understood by the way it is taught in schools. Most of us are made phobics of mathematics in high school, by the ridiculous way it is taught. All you’re thinking about throughout the semester is ‘is this going to be on the test?’ whereas what you should be thinking is “what…