This is a great find via the fine folks at the Lethe Institute. A Wired article from 1994 on the addictive, brain-sucking effects of Tetris. This piece of color is pretty hilarious: Even spanking new, Tetris was so addictive that Pajitnov himself was instantly hooked. He laughs, “You can’t imagine.
Over at Next New Web, Courtney Boyd Meyers reports from the annual PSFK conference that the future of work is play. Digital strategist Aaron Dignan here: Why aren’t people doing what they want to do and why aren’t they engaged at work? Dignan asked, rhetorically. It comes down to two issues- a lack
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PAUSE: Scott Campbell’s Devo vs. Space Invaders Get the print here.
Twitter was concerned a boon for protesters in Iran and Egypt who used the social networking service to communicate. We have a tendency to presume that the movement was widespread — that all protestors were using digital services equally. Of course, that was not quite the case and researchers at th
A 25-year old Japanese modder has taken a chosen an unusual (or perhaps expected) form of homage for the earthquake that struck five weeks ago. A modded version of Fallout 3 takes us to the site of the ruins of Fukushima Dai-ichi, the ill-fated power plant. While some have taken umbrage, it’s not so
As a band, it must be strange to play in an empty room in front of thousands of people on the Internet. But hey, Kill Screen does that every night via air guitar and Chatroulette. But seriously, there’s finally a way to pester your favorite bands with “Free Bird” requests from a far. Seriously, ser
PAUSE: Grand Theft Animal Crossing. [via]