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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…
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new-aesthetic: faketv: “The Barbie Video Girl Doll ($50, Mattel, for ages 6 and up) looks just like a regular Barbie, but a closer look reveals a camera in her pendant, and a postage-sized color screen on her back, peeking through her blouse.” — NYT […] mediology: Lights, Camera, Barbie? – Gadgetwise Blog – NYTimes.com
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Here’s how I’ve worked in the past. The methods outlined here are by no means complete, but they do relate to the work I’ve done in foresight and how I think as a science fiction writer. For a nice big list of methodologies, check out Rafael Popper’s foresight diamond. 1. Find signals. Or, as I…
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By many standards, Gibson is a slow writer – his book publishing career is 27 years old, and consists of nine and a half novels, a book of short stories and this collection of essays – but he is a very, very fine one. His work has been seminal to many key moments at the…
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nezua: archiemcphee: Grim Hammer made this incredibly awesome Voltron costume for his daughter. But, as amazing as this painstakingly detailed costume is, it must be acknowledged that what makes it truly awesome is the amount of moxie radiating from this fierce little girl. And just in case you were wondering if Grim Hammer has made any other awesome…
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moviesandmusicandbooksohmy: Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirrorrelease date: March 16, 2012 Mirror Mirror is a comedic, female-empowering version of the Snow White tale. Julia Roberts and Lily Collins play the Evil Queen and Snow White respectively and they seem to fit their roles perfectly. Although visually, the tale is a more classic rendition, with over the top…
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Now you can understand that when I say, “Roboto is a straight sided grotesk” that I’m drilling down into a really small sub-classification, of a sub-classification. Matias Duarte – Google – A few words about words Wow. Thanks for the response!…
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Roboto was almost immediately branded a Frankenfont, a multi-headed hydra, and many other names by font purists and tyros alike, because of what seems to be a borrowing of identifiable features of several well-known fonts, including Helvetica. Stephen Coles at Typographica singled out characters he felt quite similar in form from Helvetica, Myriad, Universe, FF…