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Lots of hex codes for Crayola crayons. Lovely.
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“When faced with a roblem you want to solve, or even to find out where the real problems are in the first place, try what the native americans called the Medicine Walk.” I’ve been doing this a lot recently, and the pairing tip is spot-on.
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“This is a port of Tyrian for the Nintendo DS.” Wonderful top-down shareware Shmup, now abandoned, and put on your portable.
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The first of Joe Deaver’s adventure gamebooks translated to a rather beautiful NDS port.
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“Not necessarily the completest ‘best’ collection, but some of the more notable games, applications and emulators that have grabbed my attention long enough to stay on my DS.”
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“This exhibition rediscovers the intriguing work of the Festival Pattern Group. This creative conglomerate of X-ray crystallographers, designers and manufacturers was inspired by the patterns discovered in crystal structures…” Anyone want to go?
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“Favorit is a unique product that not only allows you to aggregate content like a newsreader but also allows you to post comments, all without leaving its site.”
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“Git is a version control Swiss army knife. A reliable versatile multipurpose revision control tool whose extraordinary flexibility makes it tricky to learn, let alone master. I’m recording what I’ve figured out so far in these pages.” Really excellent.
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“This is an important game – … important because it is so ambitious, so detailed, so confident in its originality and inventiveness. It would sort of be an act of cultural irresponsibility not to play it.”
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“You are viewing Modernista! through the eyes of the Web. The menu on the left is our homepage. Everything behind it is beyond our control.” Inventive, certainly. Not quite sure how much I like it, though.
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“Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence.” Gorgeous.
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“Funnel is a toolkit to sketch your idea physically, and consists of software libraries and hardware. By using Funnel, the user can handle sensors and/or actuators with various programming languages such as ActionScript 3, Processing, and Ruby.”
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Robots made out of sans-serif fonts. Squee!
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Not quite sure what point Poynor’s trying to make; in many ways, his list of examples at the end really is a list of design thinking examples – architecture, engineering, etc, seen with a design hat on. Lots of statements I’m uncomfortable with in this.
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“When I first learned this at RubyConf I thought this was mind-blowing. I have since never used it.”
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“Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar.” No IE6 support, but it’s not half bad so far.
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“…if you put those two ideas together, you get something surprising. Make something people want. Don’t worry too much about making money. What you’ve got is a description of a charity.”
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“Syncopation from Sonzea provides a hands-free solution to keep your iTunes® music collection synchronized across multiple computers running Mac OS X.” And this is what might make a Squeezebox practical chez nous.
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“The only price comparison website worth drinking to as well as the only travel and short-break holiday guide you really need.”
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“Osmo Wiio is a Finnish researcher of human communication. His laws of communication are the human communications equivalent of Murphy’s Laws”
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“You never see anyone with a degree eating a fry-up; they’re too intelligent to consume it, says Times restaurant critic.” What rot. Terrible article, lots of lazy journalism, somewhat sensationalist. Grr.
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“We take interesting or representative elements and create something new from them. It’s about taking inspiration from real places and producing something that captures the essence of it.” Interview with Rockstar’s art director on building cities.
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“In 1984, the British Conservative government banned scores of horror films under the Video Recordings Act. … They became known as Video Nasties. … There are 73 Video Nasties in all, and I aim to watch them all.”
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“BusySync lets you share iCal calendars on a LAN and sync iCal with Google Calendar.” Well, if it does that, that’s pretty nifty. Worth checking out.
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“The infochimps.org community is assembling and interconnecting the world’s best repository for raw data — a sort of giant free allmanac, with tables on everything you can put in a table.”
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Tom Carden links up a few more visualisation blogs he’s following that you might not have heard of.
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“The easier way to monitor servers and web applications.” Single-server plan is free; looks like it could be very handy indeed.
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Linked a thousand times over, but some great stuff in the main body. Alas, a shame to see the intertards lay into a very fair Michael Bywater, who at least showed up to the comments.
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“I’ve never been satisfied with folks trying to build services that generate ‘eyeballs’ just to ‘monetize’ that traffic with ads.” Charlie rightly lays into the monetizers.
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“Dweller is a simple roguelike targeted for Java enabled mobile phones” lovely – straightforward, classic ASCII Rogue on your j2me mobile. Two thumbs up!
Gamecamp
20 April 2008
It’s been linked up all over the place, but I may as well link it again: the Guardian are running Gamecamp, a one-day unconference about games and play, on the third of May, and I’m going to be there, cooking up some nefarious quiz-shaped entertainment with some of the usual suspects such as Dan, James, Lee, and a few others.
Obviously, it being an unconference, everyone attending is encouraged to talk, and I’m working on thinking up a session – but about what, I have no idea. Or perhaps I have too many. I’m hoping to do something along the lines of tight criticism – something detailed and focused. And I’m not sure what sort of games to talk about yet. But I’ll work something out, and I’m looking forward to what the other participants will bring.
Like most events suffixed -camp, it’s going to sell out fast. Tickets are available from Monday April 21st. If you’re interested in coming, good luck getting one. It’ll be fun to see you – and if you’re interested, I’ll gladly corner someone for a game of Lost Cities…
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Simon Wistow with a sensible, insightful post – starting from Andy Baio’s remarkable discovery of Milliways – on how the web (and bloggers) need to grow up, and how telling smart people “you don’t get the web” isn’t actually an answer at all. Bravo.
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“masquerade – an OpenID server based on Ruby on Rails.” Server, not client-library. Looks quite nifty, and well worth knowing this is out there.
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“In the great pantheon of contractual obligation records, there is the noisy, the brassy and the phony. And then there is Van Morrison’s Bang Records Sessions.” Worth a listen, for sure!