Humble Indie Bundle 4 just keeps on growing! If you’ve already purchased Humble Indie Bundle 4, check your bundle download page for new goodies to download or redeem on Steam: VVVVVV, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, And Yet It Moves, and Hammerfight, and the soundtrack to each game!
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Path is pretty in the same designy way as our modern museums…These museums are very exciting when they open. You show up and marvel along with all of the other fans of architecture. Maybe you return for one of those nights where they stay open late and there is a band and drinking. “A great space,” you think. Maybe one day you’ll be rich and rent out the atrium for a private party. The art doesn’t get talked about so much at these museums. The museum itself is the “social object,” as it were. Eventually the particulars around which the museum was designed fall out of fashion. A fresh crop of architects finds it to be too flashy, or too dull, or to have been guided by faulty principles. There is congestion where there should be flow. Certain rooms are simply exhausting. Maybe it is even an eyesore. This is good for the museum. Now they can really fuck up the place…Path is a monument to Path. It is no place to scribble in. I wish it longevity so that it might find shabbiness.
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This is the best thing I’ve read about Path, and it perfectly articulates something I’ve thought not only about Path, but also a lot of other exemplars of the fussy, post-Apple wave of “high design” in tech products. Khoi Vinh has written about the same phenomenon, arguing that the obsessive design polish we in the industry have come to fetishize can lead to products without the “breathing room” to feel truly lived in by users. (via buzz) |
This is the last in a series of five blog posts this week dedicated to thinking out loud about the opportunities for the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership in 2012.
This week I’ve spent a lot of time writing about the opportunities that lie at the intersection of open-source…
After Ricky Gervais made fun of her, the Material girl took the podium to present best foreign film and quipped back: “If I’m still just like a virgin, Ricky. then why don’t you come over here and do something about it.”
She added, “I haven’t kissed a girl in a few years. … On TV.”
(AP)
iPad update coming in December
Good news everyone!
After being busy working out details, new designs and user interfaces, we are ready to commit to a release of the iPad update in December! So in a short while you’ll be able to enjoy Carcassonne on the big screen1 and we will start working on expansions and adding GameCenter support.
To celebrate, here are the first screenshots of Carcassonne on the iPad:
1 Well, at least slightly bigger. ;)
It currently seems en vogue to hype Android in the blogosphere. It is without doubt the fastest growing platform at the moment. The somewhat polemic title of this post suggests that next to abundant opportunity, there’s certainly a fair share of palpable risk for Google’s Android platform.
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Doodle Grub - Travel back through time / Voyage à travers le temps
(English) The snake from Doodle Grub meets his origins in an akward time-travel experience… and discovers the ultimate secret from the game!
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Rendez-vous next week for a new episode!
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I think Umair is right about what is wrong, but wrong about what’s right. Here’s his diagnosis:
Umair Haque, Why This Crisis Isn’t Going Anywhere—And What To Do About It
The clanking, wheezing institutions of the industrial age are beset by a titanic flaw. They overcount real benefits, and…
For the last few years I’ve tried to eat better.
We buy things locally grown and organic whenever possible.
But finding and eating things that are good for you isn’t easy.
I’m a vegetarian and I’m always looking for ways to get protein. I found this vegetarian hamburger mix the other day in…
