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“Watching Dr. Who is exciting enough, but imagine if a robot Dalek in your living room was acting out the scenes live along with the on screen action. That’s the idea behind a new BBC technology that sends metadata directly into your room, along with the picture and sound. The metadata is sent to the robot Dalek…
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paintedetc: Someone had to do it sooner or later, and here is a try. Now you can buy digital editions to display on your devices via Sedition. Of course it helps that all of the works currently on offer aren’t really digital artworks as such, and are pretty much just photographs of things that have…
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emergentfutures: IARPA Commits $10.5M to Develop Gamification for Intelligence Late last week, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA, it’s like DARPA for spies) announced a new contract of $10.5 million to develop “serious games” that include training for US intelligence officers. Along side projects designing the future of silicon chips and predicting the future…
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As a young girl, I was an opinionated, asocial, extroverted, impossible egregious brat whose primary friends were books! The early lessons I learned, generally the hard way, in standing up for myself and my egocentricities, being proud of being ‘different,’ doing my own thing, gave me the strength of purpose to continue doing so later…
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It’s statements like these that remind me how ridiculous the social gaming industry can seem (and how much I adore being a part of it):
pigtailsandritalin: “We took the basic game mechanics from city or village builders, did our marketing research to find what would make a unique theme or IP and added mechanics that would make it more interesting,” he said. “That’s why we’re adding the ability to raise dinosaurs.” – Michael Zhuang, Producer for Tiny Village hmmmmmmnn.
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immerseyoursoulincode: stochastic-gamer: I just discovered how to use Xcode 4’s Storyboard editor to design user interface. I am in love with Xcode. It is THE most pleasant integrated development environment (IDE) I’ve ever used and I’m starting to get a hang of Objective-C and how the MVC system works. You do the usual Interface Builder stuff…
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Memory May Not Sustain
lareviewofbooks: DEAN RADER on Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s Blood Run Allison Adelle Hedge CokeBlood Run Salt Publishing, November 2007. 120 pp. Located in Eastern South Dakota and Western Iowa, Blood Run is a series 176 well-constructed ceremonial mounds built by the Oneonta. The site is over 8,000 years old, but archeologists believe it saw its…