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PAUSE: Could QR tattoos revolutionize alternate reality games?
One of the concerns people always have when getting a new tattoo is with their longevity. Is that quote from Dante’s Inferno that you now have plastered across your chest, I resisted asking a friend in college, really going to have the same impact in twenty years? Well, one man found a way to circum
"New Year’s Rulin’s" to live your life by inside and outside of games
Folk singer, beloved American hero and all around wise guy Woody Guthrie once made a list of precepts for the new year. Lists of Note transcribed the thing because it was kind of hard to read, but the rulin’s are: NEW YEAR’S RULIN’S 1. WORK MORE AND BETTER 2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE 3. WASH TEETH IF ANY
PAUSE: A stop-motion papercraft geometric ballet.
It’s pretty amazing what Steven Briand managed to do with just a camera and some paper. Makes me wish more developers would use stop motion (aside from thecatamites, that is.) – Filipe Salgado [source]
Good-bye email, hello Xbox Live notifications.
That’s what Steve Gillmor at TechCrunch is hypothesizing, at least: Today email serves as a notification service for social. I get social notifications both via push on mobile and email as an archive. The more efficient push gets, the more email becomes a redundant service. On iOS devices, I am now
Gamification of office wellness might be an "HR miracle."
Turns out, shame-based models for exercise might not be the best way to motivate people to get off the couch. And even if someone really likes data, monitoring their own vital statistics might not be entirely appealing either. But after leading an ultimately unsuccessful project at Google that promi
Closed-World Game: Are Western societies and Western RPGs actually free?
Vaclav Havel, the Czechoslovakian politician who presided over the country during its breakup, died on Sunday, but left behind his sharp critiques of Western society. Politicians seem to have turned into puppets that only look human and move in a giant, rather inhuman theatre; they appear to have
The Pokémon World Championships are nigh.
If you’re serious about Pokémon, then you’re going to get your ass to Europe starting March 3rd, for what’s basically going to be the NCAA Tournament for fans of the Nintendo classic. Here are some basic ground-rules for the tournament: You can build your team using Pokemon from the National Pokedex
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