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archiveofaffinities: Dan Graham, Public Space/Two Audiences
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NEW YORK – Microsoft has agreed to buy the popular Internet telephone service Skype for $8.5 billion in the biggest deal in the software maker’s 36-year history. Buying Skype would give Microsoft a potentially valuable communications tool as it tries to make a bigger splash on the Internet and become a bigger force in the…
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laughingsquid: A Tour Inside Archie McPhee, A Novelty Toy Store In Seattle
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Needless to say, I can’t wait to get started on the ‘real’ testing and building. One interesting observation or surprise? I hadn’t fully anticipated that people would view the disks and the creations as fragile. In fact, first thing in the morning, some of the maintenance staff were quite worried about people trashing the creations,…
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Bright Hub: IDENTIFYING AND ASSESSING THE GIFTED STUDENT
Bright Hub: IDENTIFYING AND ASSESSING THE GIFTED STUDENT positivelypersistentteach: I post a lot of special education articles and ideas for working with struggling students on my tumblr. But what about Gifted students? They also deserve a free and appropriate education. In Ohio, we are only required to identify gifted students — not actually do…
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. – Emerson Quote of the day
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bashford: Suwappu. A range of toys and an augmented reality concept from Dentsu London. You can read more about them here, and here, and see more images here. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Depth through new systems: When the game wasn’t engaging, we added new systems such as having downed planes drop powerups. A more traditional approach might be to manually create more detailed scenarios with surprise plot points where a pack of planes pop out of a hidden cloud when you collide with a pre-determined trigger. However,…
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The growth of games into new genres and new platforms is leading to what Wright calls the Gambrian Explosion, which is like the Cambrian Explosion 530 million years ago that gave birth to so many new species on earth. Games are flowering into new platforms and categories such as social networks, mobile phones, tablets, and…