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nprfreshair: Tennis legend Billie Jean King was a pioneer for women’s sports. In addition to winning 20 Wimbledon titles, she founded the Women’s Tennis Association. King is best known for her win against self-proclaimed male chauvinist Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes” in 1973. In the interview she spoke to Fresh Air’s Dave Davies about how…
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Breaking Madden
jkottke: Jon Bois attempted to create the most lopsided game ever in Madden NFL on his Xbox. He beefed up the players on one team (7’0”, 440 lbs, good at everything) and put a bunch of scrubs on the other team (5’0”, 160 lbs, bad at everything). He started playing and was on pace to…
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8bitfuture: Video:Mini-Games for Glass. In an attempt to lure developers into creating games for Glass, Google has shown off a few concepts for basic game ideas using the headset’s built in sensors. spy games? (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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8bitfuture: The Video Game Art Museum is now ‘open’. An online gallery being put together by ‘artist in residence’ Jon Gourley features artworks seen on the walls of video game environments. New works are going up each day at the gallery. The Video Game Art Museum (VGAM) and archive is constructed with art objects appropriated from the backgrounds…
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mostlysignssomeportents: 507 words on “Petard: A Tale of Just Desserts,” story for @bruces’ sf issue of MIT Tech Review #dailywords
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rpmfm: culturite: Indigenous New Media Symposium February 21, 2014 New York City SPEAKERS:Jessica Metcalfe (Beyond Buckskin)Adrienne Keene (Native AppropriationsChase Iron Eyes (Last Real Indians)Clayton Thomas-Muller (Idle No More)Jarrett Martineau (RPM.fm / Indigenous Nationhood Movement) Follow: #IndNewMedia Really looking forward to being a part of this. rpmfm x beyondbuckskin x idlenomore x lastrealindians x nativeappropriations x…
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dzierzba: the sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel
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People are so cowed by the NFL. And for each individual politician, there is a lot of benefit to cozying around with the owners and sitting in the owner’s box, and a lot of possible harm if you are the one who is blamed for a team moving from state to another. But if we…
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nprplays: From SBNATION: THE BREAKING MADDEN SUPER BOWL:THE MACHINE IS BLEEDING TO DEATH “Over the course of the season, I’ve discovered lots of different ways to hack Madden NFL 25 into a thing that no longer resembles football as we know it. I’ve played around with rules, injury settings, all manner of player ratings, player dimensions, and…
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macloo/pythongame
macloo/pythongame babydatajournalism: pythongame – A simple text-only game written in Python Zed’s exercise 43 in Learn Python the Hard Way really kicked my butt. I wish I had kept track of how many hours I spent on this. I know it was more than 20. But it was worth it. My game is not only…