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We reached 1000 backers! AMAZING! FANTASTIC! BEAUTIFUL! And now both the classroom curriculum and the video about the Top 10 Most Common Defenses of Sexism in Gaming will be made! This last video seems all the more necessary given the other news I have to report. Harassment & Backlash As some of you may be…
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Here is my Top 10 List of favourite non violent video games for the iPhone. I compiled this list because, while there is a huge variety of different types of video games, the testosterone driven, shoot em up style tends to dominate discussions about “serious gaming” and can feel exclusionary and alienating to a lot…
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I’m super happy with the project but really hate how much management of this type of stuff, time I could be working / consulting and actually making a $. Are books just really loss leaders for the authors careers? Big adverts in the fiction section? Not something I though about until this part of the…
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Notational: Ray Bradbury, The Space Age Prophet – by BRUCE STERLING
Notational: Ray Bradbury, The Space Age Prophet – by BRUCE STERLING maskedmarauder: HE’S finally gone, at 91, the last titan of the era when sci-fi fandom was a way of life. The maestros of that tight world were Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein — and Ray Bradbury. You had to put Bradbury in…
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Mercifully, for the average Facebook user, Farmville continues to decline – from 4.6 million DAI to 4.1 million over the past month. But of most concern to Zynga is Draw Something, the Pictionary-like game which it acquired for $183 million in March this year. Its usage has been falling ever since. Just in the past…
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With a required Internet connection to play, some might be worried that SimCity will run into Diablo III style server problems at launch. The developers are adamant that they’ll be putting backstops in place to prevent those kind of day one issues, but said that if it becomes a problem they could briefly allow people…
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laughingsquid: Ray Bradbury on Writing Fahrenheit 451 in a Library
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People think of data visualization as output, and the insight that I think Ben has had with Bloom is that data visualization will become a means of input and control… Being able to manipulate data in real-time is an important shift. Data visualizations would then become interfaces rather than reports. Tim O’Reilly, on Bloom: new…
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museumoflatinamericanart: Gabriel Orozco (Mexico, b. 1962), Ping Pond Table (Mesa de ping-pong con estanque), 1998 Mixed media Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Purchased with funds provided by The Acquisition and Collection Committee, 2000, 2000.69
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kateordie: Sometimes I have the time and patience to get from an idea to a fully fleshed-out, penciled, inked and coloured comic. Sometimes I don’t.