Brent Simmons (creator of Netnewswire) switches his blog to a static site compiler and shares some insight into his reasoning for the switch. I wonder why these site compilation tools didn’t garner more widespread adoption in times before ubiquitous PHP/MySQL availability – or maybe they did and I missed it. Some site compilation tools: nanoc, Webby,
PhonePlay
PhonePlay :: Big screen games you play using any phone
PhonePlay Demo at NIME (2007) from Josh Knowles on Vimeo.
Related: Carry Small, Game Large: Big Shared Screen Multiplayer Gaming @gamasutra, including an architectural overview and code.
Related: ProjectorGames “offers remakes of classic games and brand new, simple party and arcade games with a twist and can support up to 512 players on a SINGLE screen” – [video]
24 Rooms Tucked Into One – Gary Chang’s Apartment
CityWall is a large multi-touch display installed in a central location in Helsinki which acts as a collaborative and playful interface for the everchanging media landscape of the city.
OFFFestival’08 – Joshua Davis
OFFFestival’08 – Joshua Davis from we-make-egos-grow-not-art on Vimeo.
Facebook’s valuation (in Whoppers):
Burger King recently introduced a Facebook app called Whopper Sacrifice that allows users to delete ten of their friends in exchange for a Whopper sandwich. [...]
What BK has unwittingly done here is provide a way to determine the valuation of Facebook.
The whopper valuation of $1.8 billion falls considerably short of the $15 billion valuation when Microsoft invested in Facebook in Oct 07.
Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2009
I always knew the “War on Terror” bubble would go. It’s gone. Nobody misses it. It got no burial. I knes was gonna be replaced by another development that seemed much more burningly urgent than terror Terror TERROR, but I had a hard time figuring out what vast, abject fright that might be.
Now I know. Welcome to 2009!