Category: words

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  • Over the past couple of years, a distinguished video game sub-genre has flourished within the indie scene: narrative-driven, non-combative exploration games. The 2012 commercial release of Dear Esther seemed to mark the beginning of an exploding trend; its popularity cemented by subsequent success stories Gone Home, Dream, The Stanley Parable, and plenty of others. But…

  • nprplays: Is it immoral to kill video game characters? That’s the topic of a rather heady conversation between Brian Tomasik, a consultant at the Foundational Research Institute, which explores possible avenues for reducing suffering in humans and other sentient beings, and Vox’s Dylan Matthews. It meanders a bit, but one nugget that got me thinking…

  • Lost Warhol artworks found on Amiga floppy discs from the 1980s

    Lost Warhol artworks found on Amiga floppy discs from the 1980s A team of art and computer experts salvaged more than two dozen images from an obsolete set of discs three decades after they were created. ludo ergo sum

  • More Latino Than White Students Admitted to UC

    More Latino Than White Students Admitted to UC More Latino than white students in California have been offered admission to the state’s premier public universities for the first time.

  • The research reported in this book … shows that in the cases of well-managed firms… . good management was the most powerful reason they failed to stay atop their industries. Precisely because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort…

  • Gabriel García Márquez—a Rebel Against Form, an Artist Against the Forces of Oblivion

    Gabriel García Márquez—a Rebel Against Form, an Artist Against the Forces of Oblivion The climax of One Hundred Years of Solitude is famously based on a true historical event that took place shortly after García Márquez’s birth: in 1928, in the Magdalena banana zone on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, not far from where the author was…

  • cinoh: Max Bill, Ulmer Hocker (Ulm stool), 1954 Check the footwear

  • code drawing 59 various states, made with Hopscotch

  • code drawing 58 states 02 and 03, made with Hopscotch