December 2010
“Jay Bushman does an exemplary job of articulating the industry’s formative state...”
– A Look Back at the Year in Alternate Reality Games: 2010 Edition | ARGNet: Alternate Reality Gaming Network
*Aw , shucks*
“Star Wars is the monomyth of Gens- X and Y: so pervasive that it occupies the...”
– My Year Without Star Wars
The Brief, Wondrous Baseball Life of Benny... →
Men of a Certain Twitter. - the slack daily →
I heart twitter
The Prince of Wales’ official candle maker →
At last we learn who is charged with fulfilling all those unreasonable candle budgets
WatchWatch Russell Brand Improvise a Shakespearean Backstory for Five Minutes — Vulture
The Blast Shack: Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks →
Must. Read. Too many great parts to pick out just one quote.
(via Boing Boing)
“Beginners tend to speak loudly, or slowly, or in short bursts. But...”
– Use It Better: Getting the Most Out of Speech Recognition, by David Pogue: Scientific American
I question your definition of “normal speech.”
“Republicans, meanwhile, warn that the new rules would impose unnecessary...”
– FCC poised to adopt network neutrality rules
Because making a healthy return on investments has completely guaranteed superb AT&T service! (via meganwest)
“Moreover, this is something that drives me insane when we talk about how illegal...”
– Mark Waid (via deadlyfredly)
“I was fortunate enough to get to read an ARC of Patrick Rothfuss’s The...”
– Worth waiting for: Patrick Rothfuss’s The Wise Man’s Fear | Tor.com | Science fiction and fantasy | Blog posts
Between this and the Game of Thrones TV series, Spring will be epic for fantasy
“Anyways, so Emmet’s made off with Momma’s washtub to go to band rehearsal, while...”
– Liz Tells Frank What Happened In Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas « Liz Tells Frank What Happened In…
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not...”
– Steve Jobs to Playboy in 1985. Dude. I totally relate. Don’t you? (via glenda)
Don't go outside: Quick Quiz →
seanbonner:
Johnny and Tammy are in Mrs. Smiths 3rd grade glass.
Johnny and Tammy are passing notes saying bad things about all the other students in the class.
Susan finds one of these notes and gives it to Mrs. Smith who reads it allowed to the class.
Many of the students in the class are upset because…
Don't go outside: So what does the question “Why... →
So what does the question “Why don’t you believe in God?” really mean. I think when someone asks that; they are really questioning their own belief. In a way they are asking “what makes you so special? “How come you weren’t brainwashed with the rest of us?” “How dare you say I’m a fool and I’m…
On the topic of my worldview, or why I have and...
spytap:
This post has been, like most things worth doing, long and difficult in its birth. Its impetus was a long conversation with a friend, mentor, occasional verbal sparring partner, and erstwhile business associate on December 6th, one day after Wikileaks began to release what has now become known as “Cablegate.” We were both forced to come to the conclusion that given a specific topic of...
A hypothetical path to the Speakularity «... →
“In 1906—65 years before the Pentagon Papers and over a century before WikiLeaks—...”
– WikiLeaks as This Century’s Upton Sinclair by David A. Love
“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.” - Upton Sinclair
(via thenoobyorker)
Stories Everywhere | Adventures in narrative... →
“As I keep telling myself — I love being wrong. It means the world is more...”
– DanKam: Augmented Reality For Color Blindness « Dan Kaminsky’s Blog
Names You Need To Know: Augmented Reality →
spytap:
Mark my words: this is 2011. If you think AR is going to be relegated to magazine ads or twitter, your mind is going to be blown. Your phone is about to become a portal into an entirely new world.
Yes, this.
“When the game was over, we — or at least I — felt a profound sense...”
– Cloudmaker Nostalgia (Deus Ex Machinatio)
jamesurbaniak:
A Site Called Fred presents THE JAMES URBANIAK CHRISTMAS SONG.
Transmedia Jobs, Relationships & Rights |... →
“Heroes are enemies of truth. For they evoke powerful feelings that give...”
– The Audacious Man Called Petraeus | Hullabaloo
Digby says... →
seanbonner:
The Wikileaks saga has exposed the vapid stupidity of the celebrity press corps like nothing since the Great Clinton Panty Raid. One thing is very, very clear —- they aren’t journalists and don’t even consider themselves journalists. They are celebrity public relations professionals who just aren’t as bright as the real public relations professionals
This is the same complete suck...
“Cloudmaker Days: A Memoir of the A. I. Game — by Jay Bushman”
– from Well Played 2.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning | ETC-Press
This is my newly-published essay about what it was like to play the A.I. game in 2001.
Now I have an academic publishing credit. Ho-Ho-Ho.
“Tron: Legacy almost operates as a litmus test for how much we will tolerate in...”
– Mendelson’s Memos: Review: Tron: Legacy: an IMAX 3D Experience (2010)
“Here’s the trouble with Fringe, though — once you get past those first six or so...”
– Liz Tells Frank What Happened In Fringe (Sort Of.) « Liz Tells Frank What Happened In…
“I even came up with nicknames for the characters, like Agent Cate (because star...”
– Liz Tells Frank What Happened In Fringe (Sort Of.) « Liz Tells Frank What Happened In…
Take that, Reese Witherspoon!
Dan Gillmor's Mediactive: masterclass in 21st... →
Now just delete the “news-“