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  • Skip Hop: Moby bath spout cover
    "MOBY is a spout cover that brightens up the bath while keeping baby’s head safe from bumps." As swissmiss pointed out: adorable.
    (tags: design beautiful product bath whale )
  • Board game legend Reiner Knizia seeks iPhone devs – Offworld
    "One of board gaming's most prolific and revered designers, Reiner Knizia, is actively searching for iPhone devs to help bring his games to the iPhone, says industry site boardgamenews." Oooooooooh. That is all.
    (tags: games iphone development boardgames interesting reinerknizia )
  • Introducing the ProjectSearch Rails plugin: – (37signals)
    Rails plugin for intelligently searching within your application. Not a bad idea; will probably end up using this at some point.
    (tags: programming ruby development rails plugin utility search )
  • Fullbright: A worthy model
    "I would love to see more games that use Flower as a model, not in the copycat sense of being "flying games" or "games where you're the wind," but in the high-level approach that the production implies. Smaller, shorter, higher-fidelity, more focused, more sensate experiences that are affordable, accessible, and digestible. The primary obstacle to one designing a game with these principles in mind seem to be finding an engaging core sensation that fits the constraints. I can't wait to see the results that this challenge brings." Some sensible, and lucid, thoughts on Flower from Steve.
    (tags: games ps3 stevegaynor scope flower highfidelity )
  • Obsessed with the production design of "The President's Analyst" – a set on Flickr
    Jones has now seen "The President's Analyst" which is, by anyone's standards, a remarkable movie. Especially the bit in the cornfield. And the ending. Anyhow, he's screengrabbed loads of it on Flickr because it's just beautiful.
    (tags: satire movies sixties stills jamescoburn thepresidentsanalyst productiondesign )
  • Why the Wii will never get any better
    "…the Wii’s software stack is designed with little to no future proofing. There are basically zero provisions for any future updates; even obvious things like new storage devices or game patches. What’s worse is that this will affect the compatibility mode of any future Wii successor." Interesting analysis of what's going on inside a Wii, even if the architecture is a little limited.
    (tags: programming nintendo hardware architecture analysis wii code microprocessors )
  • Wax on the Arm | Gamers With Jobs
    "I smile. I didn't fool him in the slightest. But it doesn't matter. I didn't fall. Wax on the arm." Lovely.
    (tags: games music writing culture marriage )

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