January 2012
1 post
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
4 posts
Products are vivid arguments about how we as humans, situated in social context,...
– Richard Buchanan
Games are out-of-control experiments that reveal impossible truth and...
– Frank Lantz, commenting on Ian Bogost. Via Kars Alfrink.
July 2011
4 posts
If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the...
– Andrew Lewis
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a pyramid scheme.
– Matthew Battles
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
4 posts
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at...
– Howard Ikemoto (via saatchionline)
December 2010
3 posts
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be,
Seek...
– Alfred North Whitehead
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.
November 2010
6 posts
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)
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
July 2010
3 posts
June 2010
2 posts
Play by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman.
May 2010
2 posts
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline,...
– Alan Turing.
April 2010
12 posts
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.
March 2010
6 posts
If you want new ideas, read old books; if you want old ideas, read new books.
– Ascribed to Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, 1849–1936.
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.