Kent Szlauderbach

117 posts

Text Fighter sports vintage Unicode from 1995.

video Before Unicode became the vernacular of 2000s internet subculture, 1995’s Text Fighter for Apple II used CGI text to animate a story and make a seemingly sound fighting game. (Warning: Turn volume down to survive infinitesimally compressed, ear-splitting 8-bit soundtrack.) [via Text Mode]

Our culture’s critics are in crisis.

Spin reduces record reviews to tweet-length, and Johann Hari at GQ wants us to revaluate what critics mean to us—and how much they mean to us.  When something new and startling comes along, it often baffles us, and we are tempted to drop it, pained, for easier cultural lifting. A great critic can he

Our best schools are states of play.

More and more are coming to believe that education and imagination are not gulags of labor, but places to play. Announced yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, GLASS Lab—a project by Institute of Play in partnership with EA and the Entertainment Software Association and supported by the John D. and

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