Cash’n Guns - a circle of death! May 31, 2007
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Last night we played a new game from Asmodee that is all kinds of fun. It recreates those great scenes in crime movies where the gangsters all sit around a table with guns in front of them and a big pile of money in the middle.
In the game, you play bank robbers who are dividing up the loot from a heist. Each turn you point foam rubber guns at each other and decide whether you’re willing to shoot and/or be shot for the money that’s on the table. Later rounds introduce special skills and powers, and an undercover cop who’s secretly phoning for backup as the game goes on.
The goal is to end up richer than anyone else and not dead. In that order.
DRM-free music on iTunes May 30, 2007
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It happened today! Sweet, sweet, high-quality DRM-free music on iTunes. They got the Stones, Dean Martin, David Bowie…the only less than awesome thing is that buying stuff isn’t, um, exactly working for me. Probably the system’s overloaded by music-loving geeks.
There are three songs I’ve already bought that are currently available for me to upgrade at 30 cents a song: Blondie’s “Sunday Girl”, Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy”, and Lily Allen’s “LDN”.
GRAVITYS RAINBOW IZ HARD May 27, 2007
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Marlowe is exhausted after reading Pynchon.
Unearthed notes on SXSWi gaming panel at The New Marketing May 25, 2007
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While weeding old messages from my Outlook inbox at work, I came across a set of notes from SXSWi that I didn’t know I took! Note-taking was dodgy there because my laptop battery was all but dead, but apparently I managed to dash these off and mail them to myself. (And then promptly forget about them.)
It’s Joi Ito and Justin Hall dropping science on “Online Games: Beyond Play and Fantasy”. I posted the notes on The New Marketing if’n you’re interested.
“The most unlikable freshman in the dorm” May 25, 2007
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Are most people as unrelentingly indignant in real life as their online personas would suggest? Or do they just stockpile their miscellaneous monocle-dropping for the benefit of a notional electronic audience?
Because, I gotta tell you: on a given day, a lot of people on the internet seem like the most unlikable freshman in the dorm.
Silverlight Developer Reference May 24, 2007
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My God, it’s full of stars!
Our days end up as a endless series of annoying events May 24, 2007
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I think the trouble is for people who aren’t happy because it’s just not efficient or perfect enough. There are always little things, little people, little events that “ruin” the moment, the day, our lives. Our days end up as a endless series of annoying events.
One things about meditation and going “meta” is that even some of the most annoying things become cute, quaint, funny and irrelevant, if not enjoyable.
- Joi Ito, “Mindfulness and deferred yak shaving”
You need to get in the game May 22, 2007
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…Here’s the bottom line. You need to get really good at what you do. Then you need to get in the game in the big leagues. There is nothing wrong with minor league teams, except very few people see those games, and none of the players in the minor leagues would choose to stay there if they could get in the big leagues.
- Dick Staub, Culturewatch
If “The Matrix” starred Xzibit it would be like this May 22, 2007
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Pimp My Ride media empire now includes its own virtual world.
Step One: Buy a junker
Writing: it’s a bit of a rollercoaster May 15, 2007
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Sometimes I’m an awful writer, and sometimes I’m a goddamn genius.
Last week, I was awful. Today might make up for it.
