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  • Making art from barrels, part nine – the johnson banks thought for the week
    "…the brief, in a nutshell, was to take a series of actual whisky barrels and find a way to express the vast lengths of time it takes to actually produce a bottle of Glenfiddich Single Malt." I found the results rather lovely.
    (tags: whisky art manufacture barrels type )
  • Bug Finder (Programming, Testing / Quality Assurance)
    "To state that another way, given a function f and input x, determine if f(x) will halt." AlanT puts out a tender on GetACoder for Turing's Halting Problem. The responses are entertaining.
    (tags: programming outsourcing humour turing computerscience )
  • Who Botches The Watchmen? » Murderblog 3D
    "Sweet! Quick time events? Combos? Finishing moves? It’s like they distilled Watchmen to it’s very essence. Wonderful."
    (tags: watchmen games comics licensing adaptation brawler bad wrong )
  • YouTube – Let's Play Plumbers Don't Wear Ties – Intro
    All of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. Made interactive. On Youtube. Horrible, barely "erotic", choose-your-own-adventure guff for the 3DO and PC. Don't click through.
    (tags: games plumbersdontwearties interactivemovie 3do horrible awful grim )
  • Play This Thing! | Game Reviews | Free Games | Independent Games | Game Culture
    "Just like the inspirations it cites, carry helps explore why we fight, and what happens to the people we send to war, all through the rules. The mechanics of the game work as well as the prose of The Things They Carried or the script of Full Metal Jacket in exploring life in the line of fire…" Sounds really interesting – games' unique ability is to convey meaning through systems, rather than prose, and it looks like carry really embraces that.
    (tags: games tabletop narrative carry indie mechanics )

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