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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:57:08 -0400

The psychology of the reticle and the feeling of control

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:58:20 -0400

Fabulous post by notch on the design decisions related to making a new mob in Minecraft “creepy” vs “scary.”

notch:

This blog post contains extensive spoilers about a new mob in the adventure update. Don’t click “read more” unless you want spoilers!

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How to "Make It" in the New York Tech Scene

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:18:38 -0400

How to "Make It" in the New York Tech Scene:

Lots of good tips. Even if all you do is follow the people in step one, you’ll learn a lot.

dear-photograph: Dear Photograph,I was astounded, but I hadn’t...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:41:52 -0400

dear-photograph:

Dear Photograph,
I was astounded, but I hadn’t had time to consider what I was seeing.
Mark Yokoyama

"IGM is pleased to announce the Just Press Play project"

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:38:03 -0400

“IGM is pleased to announce the Just Press Play project”

- School of Interactive Games and Media | What World Will You Create?

Purdue Online Writing Lab Resources

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:09:01 -0400

Purdue Online Writing Lab Resources:

A really valuable site for anyone writing a college research paper.

Photo

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:50:30 -0400

My favorite PTI player video. Beautifully done.

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:45:16 -0400

My favorite PTI player video. Beautifully done.

Picture the Impossible Player Videos

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:44:24 -0400

Picture the Impossible Player Videos:

A YouTube playlist of the videos submitted by Picture the Impossible players. The winning entries are at the top of the list.

Share on Tumblr Bookmarklet

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:18:00 -0400

Share on Tumblr Bookmarklet:

A button you can put in your browser’s Bookmarks Bar to quickly share things you find on the web.

Clay Shirky at the 2007 Social Computing Symposium. (Photo by...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:08:00 -0400

Clay Shirky at the 2007 Social Computing Symposium. (Photo by Joi Ito)

Tom Scott’s “Flash Mob Gone Wrong” Ignite...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:52:09 -0400

Tom Scott’s “Flash Mob Gone Wrong” Ignite talk.

Just Press Play

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:43:00 -0400

Just Press Play:

The website for our upcoming RIT game.

"People ask me who inspires me. This often stumps me. Because I have been inspired in my work by..."

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:33:00 -0400

“People ask me who inspires me. This often stumps me. Because I have been inspired in my work by stuff that people make. I fell in love with zines and independent radio when I was an isolated teenager living in the suburbs. Then BBSs, people’s personal web sites, Usenet, Entropy8, online zines (holy crap, the old Bitch magazine site is now a porn portal! And Maxi is squatted!), blogs, Excel, online communities, Amazon, Salon, eBay, O’Reilly books, Google, Friendster, Alamut, NQPAOFU, Metafilter, board games, Blogger, paper games, 1000 blank cards, The Mirror Project, 1000 journals, Moveable Type, 20 things, Google Maps, Flickr, Gmail, last.fm, iPhone, NaNoWriMo, McSweeney’s, Kingdom of Loathing, muxtape, vimeo, Etsy, iPad, Kickstarter, …the people who make these things are my leaders. Most of the time I don’t know their names. Sometimes I’m lucky and do.”

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me too caterina

Caterina.net» Blog Archive » Make things

(via fred-wilson)

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Great + great + great post.

Lemme make my own list: baseball cards, sticker books, Laser Tag, Legend of Zelda, BBSes, Prodigy, The Secret of Monkey Island, video game fanzines in early 90s, Street Fighter 2, disposable cameras, Yahoo, links.net, Puppet Motel, the Aladdin virtual reality ride @ EPCOT, Hypercard, CU-SeeMe, thespot.com, Orange Source (Syracuse webzine), QTVR, New York City, Moviefone, Craigslist, Citysearch, Vindigo, Modo, NYU/ITP, Bass-Station, PacManhattan, Mogi Mogi, Friendster, Pokemon, Flickr, Delicious, Nike+, Big Urban Game, ConQwest, CrossRoads, Sharkrunners, Twitter, FFFound, MuxTape, PMOG, Feltron Reports, Guitar Hero, Rider Spoke, Guitar Hero on a Bike, Epic Mix.

#1 source of inspiration? These two guys who co-founded the first real startup I worked at: Vindigo. ”Build things that make people’s experience of the world better” was the lesson I learned from the 12 months I worked there. And seeing these guys (who were 28 at the time?) make it happen was hugely inspiring in a if-they-can-do-it-I-can-do-it type of way. Working all day and then leaving work and seeing random people in the streets/bars/etc using the stuff that you worked on all day was the single most eye-opening thing to happen in my career.

(via dpstyles)

Michael Wesch’s “Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:28:34 -0400

Michael Wesch’s “Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us” video from the 9/12 lecture.