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Something on my mind grapes

26 September 2010

Silly 30-minute weekend project: this led to this. It usually raises a smile, but every now and then (as above) it’s solid gold.

(Also, I found a neat pattern for decoupling all the OAuth keys so that it’s much easier to distribute/opensource the sourecode, which I’ll probably do at some point).

code 30rock, kanyejordan, kanyewest, project, silly, twitter

Gamasutra – The Game Developer Archives: 'Monsters From the Id: The Making of Doom '

"Starting a new column reprinting classic Game Developer magazine articles, this January 1994 premiere issue article goes behind the scenes of Id Software's Doom, talking to John Carmack and revealing technical specifics of the seminal game's creation." And it's cracking – lots of great detail, some neat ironies, and quite a bit about the id team's fondness for NeXT workstations.

(tags: games development doom id idsoftware johncarmack shareware nextstep )
An Episode Of The Online Games Review Show Consolevania

Consolevania is over. A shame, but they make their case well, and it was lovely when it lasted.

(tags: games video television consolevania allover )
Dopplr Blog » Blog Archive » Dopplr presents the Personal Annual Report 2008: freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama…

"We’ve generated what we call the Personal Annual Report for all our users. It’s a unique-to-you PDF of data, visualisations and factoids about your travel in 2008, that we’re delivering over the next week via email to every Dopplr user who travelled in 2008. To give you an example, we thought we’d show you the Personal Annual Report of someone who’s had a very busy 2008 – President Elect Barack Obama." This is super-awesome. Can't wait for mine, no matter how small it is.

(tags: statistics publishing illustration information pdf generation informatics dopplr )
Strawman

"Your argument did not address my own, but nice try". I think I'm going to need this in future.

(tags: resources strawman poster motivationalposter arguing system:filetype:jpg system:media:image )
Cool Stuff: Olly Moss’s Poster Remakes | /Film

These are lovely. The more I think about this, the more I like his Die Hard poster.

(tags: design film movies graphicdesign posters remake )
Acceleration Due to Gravity: Super Mario Brothers

"The purpose of this analysis is to determine the evolution of gravity in the Mario video game series as video game hardware increases." Not super-accurate, but not bad; the bit when it starts the comparison against GPU word length is a little silly, perhaps. But otherwise: fun!

(tags: games paper silly physics explanation mario facts gravity )

The Corpus Clock and The Chronophage

"Introduced by Dr John C.Taylor, Invenit et Fecit" – or, to translate, he invented it, and he built it. Video explaining some of the finer points of the chronophage. Stunningly beautiful.

(tags: chronophage clock timepiece engineering time corpuschristi cambridge video )
Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time – Telegraph

"He calls the new version of the escapement a 'Chronophage' (time-eater) – "a fearsome beast which drives the clock, literally "eating away time". It is the largest Grasshopper escapement of any clock in the world." Stunning new timepiece for the Corpus library. Breathtakingly beautiful.

(tags: chronophage clock timepiece mechanical engineering beautiful )
Bruce Sterling, "Computer Entertainment," Flurb #6

"Computer Entertainment Thirty-Five Years From Today: A solo spoken word performance by Bruce Sterling" Wonderful, surreal, exciting; Sterling's keynote from Austin GDC. Good stuff, and worth a read for gamers, futurists, and designers alike.

(tags: games play entertainment futurism scifi brucesterling austingdc keynote )
RPS Verdict: Spore | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

"This is something I said about Spore a while back, actually. I thought Spore could be a little like what Understanding Comics is to Comics. As in something from the form which uses the form to explain the form." Oh, I like that as an idea. He can be a smart one at times, that Gillen.

(tags: criticism tutorial discussion games pc spore )
AIR TextMate Bundle

"I've just finished attending the AIR tour and during the final (particularly funny) presentation, I completed a TextMate plugin that has full API completion support." Useful – some syntax completion, and a shortcut for application preview.

(tags: textmate bundle adobe air )
Twenis: Twitter is Penis

"We hijack innocent tweets, subject them to our patent pending penisization process by replacing certain words with 'penis', and republish it for your entertainment. We find it funny."

(tags: twitter silly penis humour )
Eugene de Salignac, October 7, 1914 – A Photography Blog.

"I was at Aperture Foundation a Tuesday to see a panel about collecting photography, and I haven't been able to get this image out of my mind since." Oh wow.

(tags: photography brooklyn eugenedesalignac )
Jan Chipchase – Future Perfect Little Swtich / Big Switch

"You might argue that an iPhone without connectivity is, well, an iPod, but its not. To state the (obviously overlooked) obvious – it is a phone without connectivity and that over time the ease and evolving practice of disconnecting fundamentally changes our assumptions of what we can expect from a phone, which in turn alters our expectations about the connectivity of other people." Jan Chipchase on pause buttons and understandings of what "social" means. Excellent.

(tags: janchipchcase mobile phone connectivity social communication society essay )

It’s.. the Visual Studio 2005 song! From Microsoft Korea; it’s catchy, awesome, and has a great flash animation. The product clearly can’t live up to the song. All together now: “Visual! Studio! Team! System!“

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Something on my mind grapes

26 September 2010

Visual! Studio! Team! System!

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