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“Products are vivid arguments about how we as humans, situated in social context,...”
– Richard Buchanan
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Aug 13th
“Games are out-of-control experiments that reveal impossible truth and...”
– Frank Lantz, commenting on Ian Bogost. Via Kars Alfrink.
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July 2011
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“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the...”
– Andrew Lewis
Jul 2nd
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a pyramid scheme.”
– Matthew Battles
Jul 2nd
April 2011
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“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at...”
– Howard Ikemoto (via saatchionline)
Mar 5th
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December 2010
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“The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek...”
– Alfred North Whitehead
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“Everyone wants to live an exciting life, but most people are afraid to take the...”
– Paul Arden, Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite. London: Penguin 2006, p. 24. To my mind, still the best working definition of escapism we have today.
Dec 5th
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November 2010
6 posts
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“Die Lesesucht ist ein thörigter, schädlicher Missbrauch einer sonst guten Sache,...”
– J. G. Hoche: Vertraute Briefe über die jetzige abentheuerliche Lesesucht und über den Einfluss derselben auf die Verminderung des häuslichen und öffentlichen Glücks (1794)
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WatchWatch
Play by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman.
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“A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline,...”
– Alan Turing.
May 20th
April 2010
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Apr 2nd
WatchWatch
AFOL - A Blocumentary by Jess Gibson. “Passion combines with creativity in this documentary that features a selection of AFOLs (Adult Fans Of LEGO) from the Pacific Northwest.” Quote: “I actually have a big love for BattleTech. Just something about that concept of big, clunky, giant robots doing battle was just awesome to me.” Ahh, I feel at home.
Apr 1st
March 2010
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Mar 31st
“If you want new ideas, read old books; if you want old ideas, read new books.”
– Ascribed to Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, 1849–1936.
Mar 29th
In Bb 2.0 →
A collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon – and my personal favourite piece of net art/music this year.
Mar 26th