November 10th, 2007 · Comments Off
Clive Thompson, Suicide Bombing Makes Sick Sense in Halo 3:
“I used to find it hard to fully imagine the mind-set of a terrorist.
That is, until I played Halo 3 online, where I found myself adopting — with great success — terrorist tactics. Including a form of suicide bombing.”
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“It’s not just that I’m willing to sacrifice my life to kill someone else. It’s that I’m exploiting the psychology of asymmetrical warfare.”
Tags: gaming,halo 3,suicide bombing,terrorism
August 31st, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Each station is like museum, with huge patchworks occupying some walls, high ceilings and antique type chandeliers. And in those magnificent interriors nowadays you can meet people that look like really weird.”
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“The seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago (…) interviewed a diverse group of seven-year-old children from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future.”
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“Digital channel More4 will court controversy once again this autumn with a fictional piece, shot as a documentary, about the assassination of the US president, George Bush.”
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“1962, une suite de l’hôtel Bel-Air à Los Angeles, Marilyn Monroe pose devant l’objectif de Bert Stern. L’actrice, sans maquillage, accepte de se dénuder. La séance photo dure douze heures, Bert Stern prend 2571 clichés.”
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timetable
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A tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kaufmann House in Half Life 2.
Tags: 49-up,architecture,cinema,design,frank lloyd wright,gaming,george w. bush,halflife,marilyn monroe,moscow,photography,politics,russia,subway,time table,usa,video
June 6th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“So, instead of drawing boxes and arrows that represent a real screen, we just dive in and design the real screen. And tweak, iterate, and adjust.”
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“A showcase of self-portraiture all from my current teenage years, some using multiplicity (which I adore)”
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“Many Americans forget or ignore both the short- and long-term benefits and avoid exercise due to a sedentary lifestyle, allowing a “perfect” workout to be the enemy of one that is “good enough,” (…)”
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“”Second Life” currently runs on 2,579 servers (…) Each server is responsible for an individual “sim,” or 16 acres of virtual “Second Life” land. At peak usage that means that each server is handling about three users.”
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“The one-man flying wing is the latest military tool, allowing special forces troops to glide undetected up to 200km (125 miles) into enemy territory.”
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“In 1973, the tree was knocked over by a drunken Libyan truck driver. It has been replaced by a simple metal sculpture.”
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“In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every last person in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he’s doing it again, creating a unique portrait of heartland America”
Tags: biology,design,gaming,health,jason fried,niger,photography,second life,signal versus noise,usa
May 30th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“(…) here are a few shots of that new building in Harajuku that I’ve been so curious about.”
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“My home in SL now sports a simple picture frame. Touch it and it looks up your avatar name to see what your favourite Flickr tag is, picks a random picture with that tag from Flickr and displays it on its surface.”
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“Why not create a video game that’s playable inside Second Life?”
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Tags: flickr,gaming,photography,second life,stats
April 30th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Short profiles of top-ten 2ndLife personalities “
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“…a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them.”
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Berkeley courses podcast
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“remote-controlled web presentation”
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Stanford courses podcast
Tags: berkely,design,education,gaming,gui,keynote,podcast,second life,stanford
March 30th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Day one of Game, Set and Match II “
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“adicolor Podcast: White (aka adiporn)”
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Knitt a sweater for a tree. (With the pattern)
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“Analysis of all 3.5GB of the .COM TLD zone file”
Tags: .com,adidas,advertising,art,domains,gaming,knitting,pornography,tld,war,white
February 28th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“to free up space on what Jobs gave you. “
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“In 2020 zullen we een groot deel van onze tijd in de virtuele werelden van de ‘online roleplaying games’ doorbrengen. In deze spellen worden vriendschappen gesloten en harten gebroken, maar wordt ook lucratieve handel gedreven.”
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“Richard Wagner’s 15-hour Ring Cycle will be broadcast in its entirety on one day over Easter on BBC Radio 3.”
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Install 800MB wikipedia on iPod
Tags: gaming,ipod,music,os x,second life,tv,wagner,wikipedia
