links for 2006-12-20
20 December 2006 | del.icio.us | No Comments
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Eric notes that Second Life and WoW are not in-and-of-themselves, but that they facilitate excitement about entering and existing in virtual worlds.
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Speculation on the overlap between social networking on the web, and social interaction in MMOs, and where this could go.
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Connect the dots.
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Amy Jo Kim’s presentation.
links for 2006-12-16
16 December 2006 | del.icio.us | No Comments
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This movie list is making me think it’d be an interesting experiment to make a movie that defies tons of cliches to make the viewer agitated.
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“Here are some essays and thoughts by Forge members to help you design or publish your indie game, or merely think about role-playing games and how to improve your own experiences.” People just thinking about game structure.
links for 2006-12-13
13 December 2006 | del.icio.us | No Comments
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One hopes this will be cool, but bigger properties have met more ignoble ends. I foresee complaints that the Reaver faction are griefers.
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Kevin’s brother! I wasn’t thinking of buying a Wii just yet, but everyone keeps gushing over it. Gah. (I probably will have to get my own controller at this rate. But I’m waiting for them to come in colors.)
links for 2006-12-12
12 December 2006 | del.icio.us | No Comments
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Like I’m not going to bookmark a font with a piratey name.
A sample of what old friends from Chicago and I talk about over dinner when they’re in town
11 December 2006 | dinner conversation, friends, salmagundi | 2 Comments
“Back when I was a punker, we didn’t ask people on the street for money, we beat them up for it! We’d hit them over the head with a baseball bat!”
And then the direction news organizations should make in regards to online media, and weblogs, and stuff.
links for 2006-12-11
11 December 2006 | del.icio.us | No Comments
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Because I picked up one of these for cheap this week.
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This guy in Chicago wears minimal clothing and dances in public. Damn, why couldn’t I find these people when I lived there?
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A non-positive take on Burning Man. Refreshing.
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A somewhat pedantic article on how to sustain your weblog once you’ve started it up. Get past the tone and there’s some good ideas in there. (Bonus points for finding the grammatically-incorrect sentence that critiques bad grammar on weblogs.)
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How to get yourself out of a writing rut. Some really good ideas here.
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This is so absolutely true. I get my task flow at work mucked with too much and I might as well call it a day early.
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Now that you know jumping tracks often is bad, how do you tell the people at higher levels this? I think I got this link and the last from the same place; damned if I can remember where. This is good stuff.
links for 2006-12-09
9 December 2006 | del.icio.us | No Comments
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Linux on a PlayStation 3. Hell, why not?
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“Why are we watching this sissy boy cooking channel? Why aren’t we watching NFL?” Followed by the best answer possible.
links for 2006-12-08
8 December 2006 | del.icio.us | No Comments
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Aiyah. Me and my peeps (in a general sense, not me specifically) getting press. I guess this is what it felt like in 2000.
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Of course it’s fake. But the best part is that the guy is determined to finish assembling his staff before confronting his wife about cheating on him. Everyone has priorities.
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Apparently some residents of Chicago’s Boystown are all “OMGZ gay stuff!” Okay, partial nudity. But… welcome to the neighborhood. Christ.
Lomotized and colorized Rogers Park, 2001
7 December 2006 | chicago, from flickr, rogers park | No Comments
And this is how it ends
Originally uploaded by Jason.
links for 2006-12-04
4 December 2006 | del.icio.us | No Comments
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80s electronic, nice.