January 2012
36 posts
“I think it’s interesting to ask “Why is go beautiful?”. There...”
– From Podcast: Frank Lantz, “The Aesthetics of Games” | MIT Comparative Media Studies; so much good stuff in this talk.
December 2011
36 posts
“And while Americans love to talk about competition, Sahlberg points out that...”
– From What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic. No standardized tests, either, and essentially no private schools.
More shell, less egg - All this →
Yay pipelines, yay decomposition.
“That means more “no.” More, “no, I can’t take that on,...”
– From Seth’s Blog: The more or less choice. I should probably sharpen my behavior in this regard further? Not sure, actually.
“I would say that the main reason that we grade is since we really are not in the...”
– From Why do we grade? « Algorithmic Game-Theory/Economics. I certainly never felt comfortable with the role of grading when I was teaching.
CUNNILINGUS_IN_NORTH_KOREA →
I have no idea what to make of this.
“So- maybe once you’ve “broken in” to the startup-circle here in The Valley, it...”
– From Elitism, Sexism, and Meritocracy in Silicon Valley. | JoanDelilah.com. I agree that there seems to be too much solitary coding, too.
“Good design teaches.
Bad design lectures.
Great design has you teach...”
– Raph’s Website » Good design, Bad design, Great design
Huge news: multiple sclerosis is a metabolic... →
It’ll be interesting to see if this pans out.
JoanDelilah's Links →
Joan has started a linkblog; I bet she’s going to be good at it. (I don’t think I’ve mentioned her main blog yet, but I highly recommend it as well.)
“In Lean Startup, there’s a lot of focus on creating a Minimum Viable...”
– Minimum Viable Hypothesis - James Shore
HTTP Status-Katzen « Felix Rieseberg →
They just get better as you go farther down.
“In that way, synchronizing mind and body is also connected with developing...”
– Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, p. 54
“I recently heard a player say that since real life has no story, why should s/he...”
– RIFT Part 2, Faction Identity Construction | Play The Past
“I think we may be encountering a very real “Conservation Law of Money” situation...”
– From Conservation Law of Money « mathbabe; I’d never thought of that. (You all subscribe to mathbabe by now, right? Not that I’m going to stop linking to her or anything…)
“But it has taken me a horribly long time to understand what an insidious impact...”
– Lookspring » In which I don’t try to write like a man
The Cryptographic Doom Principle - Moxie... →
I did not know about the Vaudenay attack.
“Discovering real goodness comes from appreciating very simple experiences. We...”
– Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, p. 30.
“Instead of being a metaphor for intimacy, maybe it became a stand-in for...”
– Infinite Lives » What ‘Glitch’ cannot teach us about being alive
Meritocracy and horizon bias « mathbabe →
Excellent counterpoint to / amplification of Eric Ries’s article on racism in Silicon Valley startup culture.
Institutional memory and reverse smuggling →
Reverse corporate espionage. (Via @KentBeck.)
Pragmatic IO - A++ [Eric Torreborre's Blog] →
Interesting exploration of how the IO monad would look in Scala.
“If you have a mobile app that makes SSL connections to a service you control,...”
– Good points, good advice, from Your App shouldn’t suffer SSL’s problems - Moxie Marlinspike
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire - A poem in four... →
Pale Fire on index cards. (Via @MrWasteland.)
“What “bad guys” says, roughly, is this: “I’m an adult who has considered the...”
– From After Osama bin Laden’s Death, an End to ‘Bad Guys’ | The Nation
“In every mythology the hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology...”
– From Eco - “Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt”; lots of good stuff there, but the above points at one of my difficulties with video game norms. (Via inessential.)
Ghostery - About →
A browser plugin to detect tracking pixels and the like. (Via pinboard/nelson.)
Afghanistan – touch down in flight on Vimeo →
A quite lovely 5-minute movie. (Via In Focus.)
Frog Blast the Vent Core →
Three games bloggers are playing through Marathon.
Sciences Po Spire - Latour, Bruno →
For you Latour fans, a bunch of his articles for download. (Via @Morendil.)
Dinosaur Comics - December 2nd, 2011 - awesome fun... →
A fine HTML/sexuality-related Dinosaur Comics episode.
“Living in the past does not create an adaptable life. Using the past to help...”
– From Using the Past to Create a New Future.
Comments Off - Matt Gemmell →
Another person who has decided to turn off comments.
“If you must know, the actual line is “only,” as in, “only date” or “are only...”
– Yo, Is This Racist? continues to be surprisingly interesting.