February 2012
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Philip Glass's Life as an East Village Voice →
“My 10-year-old, who likes to make little videos on his laptop, wanted some music for one and said, ‘Dad, can I go on the Internet and get your music?’” Glass says. “And I said, ‘Sure you can.’ He came back about 20 minutes later and said, ‘Dad, I just downloaded your whole catalog.’ He’s 10 years old. He’s 10 years old! “I said: ‘Really? What did that cost you?’ He said, ‘It’s free!’ And what...
January 2012
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Kill Screen - The Year in ADHD →
Images by Stan Brakhage
This is what I love about Kill Screen magazine.
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Samsung to unveil “SwipeIt” AirPlay competitor →
In other news, Samsung wins the Best Troller award of CES 2012.
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I need more characters, Father
One thing that seems missing in all of this social media is the ability to take conversations on Twitter and easily flesh them out into complete posts.
This popped up as I watched @chrisfahey and @vanderwal have a fantastic discussion about the application of Dunbar’s number. I found myself wishing that there was a easy switch they could have flipped mid-post that could have moved the...
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Don't Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends →
lil-b:
The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.
Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.
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“At Instagram it takes 8 people to craft and maintain an mobile experience that...”
– @iamkory / Kory Westerhold
December 2011
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“Some time in the last 3–4 years, music blogs…have stopped posting mp3s in favor...”
– Greg Borenstein commenting on the Waxy.org post “No Copyright Intended”
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“The Star Wars enhanced editions might have contained the special-effects...”
– Kill Screen magazine
November 2011
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“I don’t give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think...”
– Harry Truman
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Kill Screen: Have indie games lost their spark? →
killscreendaily:
In a recent interview, prominent indie developer Jonatan Söderström, better known as cactus, called the creativity and relevance of recent indie games into question.
I’ve also grown tired of indie games in general, not easily being interested or impressed by what I see posted on…
No, it’s just that IGF has always been analogous to Sundance, and it’s now...
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“I don’t mind anti-science views. We’ve all bought into America being...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson in an AMA session on Reddit
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“The Web is going to be profound in what it does to our society. About 15% of...”
– Steve Jobs (1995)
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➤ Bizarro-tech
From the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet winning Laptop’s 2011 Best Tablet title, to Consumer Reports knocking the iPhone 4S for not having a 3D camera, I can’t help but feel that the tech press is having an identity crisis right now.
Since the beginning, they’ve been people really vested in technology speaking to people with a serious passion for technology. It’s why you can have...
October 2011
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This is what is wrong with British news.
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➤ Tablet Hunt
Yesterday, I went on a hunt for a Blackberry Playbook to try out at Best Buy. Instead, I got a lesson on Android tablets.
Every single card over an Android was pretty much the same:
Generic statement about the Android version number
Something about the screen size
Something about the standard apps, or connectivity
So every tablet basically looked identical to each other, both in industrial...
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Watch
Johann Sebastian Joust is a no-graphics, music-based, physical jousting game for two to six players, designed for motion controllers (i.e. PlayStation Move) and smart phones.
The goal is to keep your accelerometer sufficiently still and be the last player remaining. Try to jostle your opponents’ controllers while protecting your own!
September 2011
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Thoughts on Facebook's Timeline →
Buster Benson makes a great point:
On the other hand, maybe this particular technology trend will result in all of us ceasing to lead double- triple- quadruple-lives. Just be the person that you are to all the people that you know. Including yourself. No shame. Wouldn’t that be awesome? Down with hiding parts of ourselves because we’re ashamed what people might think if they knew it about...
“People say kids can’t understand the difference between fact and fiction, but...”
– Grant Morrison
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The Joy of Tech Comic on the Netflix Split →
People are upset about the Netflix change because they don’t care about the business, they care about the product. Even if the disc business is good now, it’s not great — it’s sliding, it’s becoming much more expensive, and it faces a lot of risks relying on the postal service as it is today (which is bound to change drastically soon).
Customers don’t care about...
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