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nevver: Type club
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Now that 2012 is upon us, the U.K.’s Royal Mint is releasing 29 new coins, each featuring a different Olympic sport. Above is the soccer coin, the reverse of which contains a handy diagram explaining just what constitutes offside. The image “is designed to provoke discussion,” but I think the real discussion centers on the…
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beyondneptune: Transistors made from cotton yarn, t-shirt computers incoming By Sebastian Anthony Altering the very fabric of technophilic society, a multinational team of material scientists have created electric circuits and transistors out of cotton fibers. Two kinds of transistor were created: a field-effect transistor (FET), much like the transistors found in your computer’s CPU; and…
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I am not a policy maker and have no desire to be one. I am not running for office and would never be elected were I to. I have no designs on becoming a lobbyist. I am a father, a ‘husband’, an actor and a citizen of this country and planet who flippantly expressed on…
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Asteroids in Kodu!
Asteroids in Kodu! fuselabs: Tim Meek is a UK based educator and one of the founders of the innovative Kodudes program in the UK. One of his students made a remarkable Asteroids game in Kodu, complete with thrusters, shields and even smart bombs! Not only does he demo his game, but spends time walking through…
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Dreams
“Technology is an expression of man’s dreams. If man did not indulge his fantasies, his thoughts alone would inhibit the development of technology itself. Ancient visionaries spoke of distant times and places where men flew around and about, and some could see each other at great distance. The technological realities of today are already obsolete…
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Do you read to your children from your iPad or other device, or encourage them to use an e-reader to read to you? Many of us do, at least on occasion — even I, who wrote here some weeks ago that I rarely read on my own iPad anymore because I want my children to…
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Do you read to your children from your iPad or other device, or encourage them to use an e-reader to read to you? Many of us do, at least on occasion — even I, who wrote here some weeks ago that I rarely read on my own iPad anymore because I want my children to…
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shapeways: Mineways is a free program that makes it easy to select a model from a Minecraft world map and render it and 3D print via Shapeways. (via Shapeways | blog: Mineways : 3D Print Your Minecraft Model) If Minecraft makes the top 10 games for the quarter list, this side program becomes a necessity I…
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The Orthodoxy Within Game Studies
christianmccrea: The game studies instinct to magically and imperially overrule game design needs and realities is facing more and more resistance. One thing that’s emerged in the last few years is a focus on how systems of all kinds produce meaning. It remains a positive development because game studies has travelled a long way without…