January 2011
18 posts
December 2010
12 posts
“Why Wikileaks will be the death of big business...
Bold claim, but he makes a good case.
The very same things that made it more efficient to work with your colleagues—the fact that everyone had a detailed understanding of the mission and methodology—become enormous liabilities. In a Wikileaks world, the greater the number of people who intimately understand your organization, the more candidates there are for revealing that information to millions...
WatchPapa Sangre is a video game with no video. It’s a first-person thriller, done entirely in audio by an award-winning team of game designers, musicians, sound designers and developers. We’ve created an entire world using the first ever real-time 3D audio engine implemented on a handheld device. Which was BLOODY HARD.
Reminds me of Infocom text adventure games — exercises in sensory deprivation.
Somewhere this conversation happened:
Okay, we’re gonna make a real-time strategy game for the iPad. We’re gonna keep the gameplay simple by using tower-defense-style unit movement. Resource gathering is boring? One word: Bejeweled. And for the story and visual style, we’re going to rip off Edward fucking Gorey.
No, really, this happened. You could be playing it right now.
Is World of Warcraft more of a game or a subculture?
Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Tax Dollars Fund Child Sex... →
nickdouglas:
The now infamous Wikileaks recently released a cable from Afghanistan revealing U.S. government contractor DynCorp threw a party for Afghan security recruits featuring trafficked boys as the entertainment.
Okay, I’m on Team Wikileaks.
Lest anyone think this is made up, Afghanistan has a reputation here.
Dear Coke Talk: On wikileaks. →
dearcoketalk:
Assange is at the vanguard of a new form of revolution where all the bullets in the world won’t mean shit. Maybe you’re too shortsighted to recognize the magnitude of this controversy, but what we’re witnessing cuts to the core of the American experiment. […] Quite frankly, it doesn’t matter whether I support Assange. Mine and everyone else’s opinion of him is immaterial....
“In 1938 Buckminster Fuller coined the term “ephemeralization” to...”
– Paul Graham