Infovore : tag : poem

SSRN-A Test of the Law of Demand in a Virtual World: Exploring the Petri Dish Approach to Social Science by Edward Castronova

Castronova's paper on whether the Law of Demand, as it works in the real world, also works in the virtual.

(tags: economics games castronova research paper )
qwantz: "select" is a workhorse, "update" is as routine as a pair of pants. "coalesce" is something special

Ryan North makes a little poem dedicated to the COALESCE function in MySQL. He's right: it's super useful.

(tags: databases mysql poem ryannorth poetry programming sql coalesce )
Dr Nic’s What is *jour and why they are killer apps for RailsCamp08

"Local devs, running local services, but how to share with everyone in the room?" Answer: rebuild all your tools to work across Bonjour. Slightly bonkers but very cool.

(tags: git ruby bonjour networking collaboration gitjour gems tools utilities programming )
E3 EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft’s Natal To Deliver 1:1 Teabagging on Xbox Live | Hardcasual

"When we assembled a focus group of Xbox Live players, they immediately asked for one feature we hadn’t even considered – in-depth tracking of the groin area, for post-kill celebrations. We were proud to help them find a new revolutionary way to teabag – and believe me, these ain’t no waggle controls." Hardcasual goes for the soft targets, as usual. Ahehe.

(tags: teabagging microsoft humour natal games hardcasual )
YouTube – The Beatles: Rock Band Press Conference Trailer 1

Seriously, Harmonix' character design is just amazing, and this movie – just the _intro_ movie to Beatles Rockband – is making me care more about that band than anything in my life has. Harmonix are gods.

(tags: games beatles animation characterdesign art rockband harmonix )

i made this. you play this. we are enemies.

Um. An "artwork/game/digital poem/world of scribbles" from Jason Nelson. Stop trying to "get it".

(tags: satire google yahoo web flash games art poem experimental )
The Book Design Review

"My Favorite Book Covers of 2008" Some I'd seen before; some I'd not. Some very beautiful things here.

(tags: illustration books jackets covers design graphicdesign )
Games are Software « Save the Robot – Chris Dahlen

"I come from a software background, as well as an artsy-fartsy one. I want to see games as art, but they’re also supposed to work as logically-constructed bodies of code. And in a lot of cases, reviewers need to see them as software rather than as art. Here’s why…" I think Steve has some good points here, but I'm not totally swung yet; after all, games might _be_ software, but do we _experience_ them as software? I'm not sure that we do, and that's why we respond to them in the manner we do.

(tags: games software criticism review development stevegaynor )
The Grid System

"The ultimate resource in grid systems."

(tags: resource grid design layout web reference )
scans_daily: Watchmen: The condensed version

Pretty much spot on. Especially when it comes to GRIMDARK PIRATE COMICS.

(tags: watchmen webcomics parody pastiche funny )
The Brainy Gamer: Dissonance

"Does the road to ludonarrative unity really lead us where we want to go? Is the destination reachable? Is it possible to embrace a design aesthetic that takes us in another direction that could be just as fruitful, if not more so? Okay that was three questions, but it's my blog so I get to ask as many as I want. Now if I could only answer them." This is going to be interesting when I come to write about Far Cry 2.

(tags: games narrative story michaelabbott dissonance design mechanics systems )
Bubble Calendar, a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day.

"a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day". Yes please!

(tags: calendar bubblewrap design amazing )

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