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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:07:32 -0800

Atari Reborn (Again)
New in-browser emulators for classic Atari games — Atari has been through a lot as a company. Nolan Bushnell and Ted...
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:39:20 -0800

Speculative Inhumanities
Blog Series on Ethics and Ontology — A couple months back, Speculative Heresy and The Inhumanities announced a cross-blog...
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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:56:07 -0800

Oh Woe Is Oprah
A Billionaire's Blight — Am I missing something here? Oprah, who has a net worth of roughly $2.5 billion and can do...
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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:38:04 -0800

The Art History of Games
A Symposium, hosted by Georgia Tech and SCAD — The Art History of Games is a three-day public symposium in which members...
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:00:52 -0800

Modern Warfare 3
The kind of game I wish I could make — The Onion reports on the planned sequel to Modern Warfare 2, an "Ultra-Realistic...
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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:04:02 -0800

Orienting Ourselves
Thoreau, wood, and axes — In the final Whitehead panel at SLSA this weekend, my colleague Hugh Crawford made an...
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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:30:30 -0800

Barred Ronald
— Is there a Lacanian matheme for this?... (read more)
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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:38:50 -0800

Speculative Realism Notes
Observations from SLSA — This weekend the SLSA Conference is taking place in Atlanta, and a few things of interest to...
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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:55:37 -0800

Alien Phenomenology
Abstract for my SLSA plenary — The Society for Science Literature and the Arts annual conference is about to start up...
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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:02:30 -0800

Pretty Girls for Nixon
An image and a story on a theme, circa 1972 — Feb. 21, 1972, Mao's residence, the first meeting between Nixon and Mao,...
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:45:19 -0700

Atari Hacks and Demakes
My Spring 2010 seminar — Some of you might be interested in this, the course description for my Spring 2010 graduate...
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Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:32:51 -0700

If You Follow Me...
Twitter and Subtlety — In June 2007, Ian McCarthy and I started performing Wandering Rocks on Twitter each Bloomsday. My...
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Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:03:51 -0700

Rise, Crossover
Learning from the jazz pop instrumental — I seem to wind up in the car for at least part of the early afternoon every...
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:52:09 -0700

Things I Did Instead of Blogging
The miscellany of autumn — I've been a bit of a mess this week, as I'm finishing up the Newsgames book with my two...
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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:15:12 -0700

Now You Can Burn My Books
Thoughts on Kindle and electronic editions — Apparently my publisher has started issuing Kindle editions of my books. Two...
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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:01:55 -0700

How to Think About Narrative and Interactivity
A colloquium with Espen Aarseth, Fox Harrell, and Janet Murray — The School of Literature Communication and Culture at...
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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:17:30 -0700

Art on Spec
Thoughts on Kickstarter — A relatively new service called Kickstarter, which describes itself as a funding platform for...
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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:08:19 -0700

Disney: We Own the Concept of the Castle
Fun with Infringement — Almost a year ago, I wrote about my modest success selling t-shirt designs on Zazzle.com that...
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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:19:49 -0700

She is beautiful, and I love her
New Yorker parodies the New York Times — This is already a month old, but I'm just seeing it now: the New Yorker ran a...
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