- [Quiz 70 Solution] — Using Amb — "Amb is a library that allows you to choose from a number of possibilities." Offers up some lovely possibilities.
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- New Statesman – Imaginary friends — "To conflate fantasy with immaturity is a rather sizeable error. Rational yet non-intellectual, moral yet inexplicit, symbolic not allegorical, fantasy is not primitive but primary." Ursula le Guin on fine form in the NS.
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- Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Kill a server, get a rebate — "Pacific Gas & Electric is giving companies cash rebates for using virtualization software to consolidate their applications onto fewer servers." Interesting approach to a global issue.
Tagged as: climatechange economics energy power server virtualisation environment
- Another Little Disappointment » Torchwood: Episode 10 — "Two monsters come through a Welsh rift. They look a bit adult / sexy and like they can possess humans / take human form and have sex." – ne’er a truer word spoken. Torchwood is bobbins.
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- NorthTemple.com : Make Your Small Type a Little B… — "Sure you can still make out the words, but you’ve eliminated all the subtleties of hundreds of years of typographic design elements that were put there to make things easier to read." Lots of good articles about web typography right now.
Tagged as: typography online webdesign design article - Second Life: What are the real numbers?. Many-to-Many: — There’s nothing wrong with a service that appeals to tens of thousands of people, but in a billion-person internet, that population is also a rounding error. If most of the people who try Second Life bail (and they do), we should adopt a considerably mo
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- The Kooks: Have A Kook At This PLAYLOUDER — "I mean no one gives a fuck if spotty [Weekly UK Music Publication] readers think they don’t write their own songs but it’s important we keep a bit of serious artist credibility round them."
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- Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle | urlgreyhot — Clickable Omnigraffle prototypes which export to clickable PDFs. Very nice; makes me want a new version of Omnigraffle to replace my copy of 2.0…
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- Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians — Crazy. And, of course, raises the point that online worlds could be impacting on the real world via environmental damage and power consumption…
Tagged as: community online secondlife environment technology climatechange - "Readings for Practicing Photographers" — Mike Johnston, from the Online Photographer, draws up a list of books with notes for practicing photographers. Looks fantastic.
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- [d20: The 60’s] The KKK, free thinkers, and the unwashed masses – RPGnet Forums — Awesome – players decided to take d20 (D&D) entirely metaphorically, and use it to play out 60s social archetypes. To quote further down the thread: "you’ve made D&D… narrativist". Great stuff.
Tagged as: rpg roleplaying social play games activism metaphor storytelling narrative for:vincennes for:blackbeltjones - I’m in ur X, Y-ing ur Z — Roughly where it all began, for reference…
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- EE versus CS — Entertaining parable of the ways computer scientists and electrical engineers differ.
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