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There just aren’t enough high-quality games that also serve serious purposes effectively. Making games is hard. Making good games is even harder. Making good games that hope to serve some external purpose is even harder (via Gamasutra – Features – Persuasive Games: Exploitationware )
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Joshua Yaffa profiles Edward Tufte for The Washington Monthly. After the publication of Envisioning Information, Tufte decided, he told me, “to be indifferent to culture or history or time.” He became increasingly consumed with what he calls “forever knowledge,” or the idea that design is meant to guide fundamental cognitive tasks and therefore is rooted…
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Academic libraries have been beset by changes that have led some observers to wonder whether they have a future at all. Their budgets have been hit hard even as the cost of buying and storing information—whether print monographs or journal databases—continues to climb. Search engines have replaced librarians as the go-to source of information for…
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Academic libraries have been beset by changes that have led some observers to wonder whether they have a future at all. Their budgets have been hit hard even as the cost of buying and storing information—whether print monographs or journal databases—continues to climb. Search engines have replaced librarians as the go-to source of information for…
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Peeped on Sideshow Toys are the RAH Naked2 Body and RAH Massive Body (both “males” tho) Priced at US$45.99 each and with a 3rd-quarter 2011 ship-out. A tag pricey indeed, but seems one of the only ways to score a RAH body (besides hobby shops who part out the box, maybe?). You decide 🙂 (via…
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drawnblog: More from illustrator Jason Levesque, as he shares a time lapse colouring of one of his pieces in Photoshop. Here’s the finished version below: (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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This September, a new charter school called ChicagoQuest will open on North Ogden Avenue and challenge kids to play more games as a core component of the curriculum, which also includes game creation. Parents worry that their kids play too many video games. Even U.S. President Barack Obama has cited Xboxes and PlayStations as distractions…
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paxmachina: Barcelona, Spain Sometimes reality is better than art, clever coincidence courtesy of the Barcelona municipal authority.
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The way to get things done,” says Schwab, “is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel. When nothing else works, try this
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Beth Pratt: In which I solve the problem of how much funding schools should have
Beth Pratt: In which I solve the problem of how much funding schools should have bethpratt: I’ve been thinking about this and I figured out a brilliant way to decide how much funding to give our public schools. We live in a representational democracy, so it should be up to Congress. But here’s how they…