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That is, if you are Schrodinger’s cat. While the Zelda-verse has widely been speculated on, a new art book officially published by Nintendo, and translated by Kotaku, confirms that the series indeed branches into parallel universes sometime during, or soon after, the events in Ocarina of Time. At th
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Adam Smith of Rock, Paper, Shotgun accounted for his year playing roguelikes, the cultish dungeon-crawling genre that is still going strong 30 years after the original Rogue. Unlike commercial games, rougelikes are tweaked and updated incrementally over many years, so Smith’s end of the year list is
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Hope you brought back your old SNES games from the attic over the holidays. Here’s the SupaBoy! Essentially a non-proprietary Super Nintendo, available for $79.99 on internets everywhere. Buy it for your younger sibling and then steal it back from them when they’re not looking. [via] [image]
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German auto manufacturer Audi has its sights set on a future filled with interactive LED roadways. Bjark Ingels shares his vision: If I imagine a city in 25 years’ time, the vertical facades appear unchanged, but the roadway has become a digitally programmable surface. Fixed elements such as carriag
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This is exactly the way I felt when at the checkout counter with a copy of Alice Madness Returns. [Flavorwire] -Jason Johnson
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Another one of my favorites from the ITP Winter Show was this Intimate Toilet project from Ji Hyun Moon and Ji Hyun Lee. The two creators were interested in forcing specific gestures (in this case, pooping) on users who interact with the device and I think they’ve succeeded! Just, um, watch the vide
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Pippin Barr is at it again. Fresh off praise from Artinfo and Washington Post for satire-cum-commentary on Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present, Barr now takes a stab at Greek tragedies. Finally, the frustrations of Sisyphus, Tantalus, and others can be yours to enjoy and scream at. Pippin is tr
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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
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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
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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]
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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
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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