Friday the Twelfth of March, 2010

The Latest Gimmick: Last Call, an Interactive Horror Movie, Will Phone You During the Film | /Film
"A new German horror film called Last Call is pushing a new ‘interactivity’ gimmick that will have one member of each theatrical audience receive a call from an onscreen character during the film." (filed under: films phones) (via: zarba)
Badgers in Pimlico
"Type in any word to see which [London Underground] stations do not contain its letters." Proof that the St-Johns-Wood-Mackerel Conjecture still holds true in 2010. (filed under: london tube language) (via: qwghlm)
Battersea Power Station and Grosvenor BridgeFire70/365 - Perry BuildingTunnelBrunel's Thames TunnelGlanced at: Worlds In Motion - GDC: VCs Talk Devs 'In Denial', Industry's Social Future • Save Water-Damaged Books, Docs, and Photos by Putting Them in the Freezer - Books - Lifehacker • Zombie Recycling Inc Is Out. Have Zombie Games Been Taken Too Far? Blog 148Apps iPhone App and Game Reviews and News • Parkourpedia • Badgers in Pimlico • REDDER • Advertising - Mad Men Dolls in Barbies World, but Cocktails Stay Behind - NYTimes.com • Would You Know Hitler's Face if He Settled in Western Canada? • BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Costing the Earth, Fusion Future • Stories from the stores >> Sheffield-on-Thames? • What means 'indie' anyway nowadays ?
"Being an inept videogame guard in a warehouse in Hackney, for a Fire Hazard event. That noise, it was probably just rats." 1 day ago on Twitter
Recently listened to:
Words Are Not Useful Salako
Taylorville Exileinside
Bar Italia Pulp
No Cities Left The Dears
How Many Worlds Brian Eno
The Man With The Black Moustache The Monochrome Set
Photo Jenny Belle and Sebastian
Scatterbrain The Free French
Godzilla Vs the Island of Manhattan (with you and I somewhere in-between) Ballboy
Being Boring Pet Shop Boys

Recently played on the Xbox 360:
Modern Warfare® 2Modern Warfare® 2
365/1000
Saints Row 2Saints Row 2
335/1250
Fuzion Frenzy 2Fuzion Frenzy 2
25/1000
Lazy RaidersLazy Raiders
70/200
BioShock 2BioShock 2
505/1000

Tuesday the Ninth

Smelling scenery in stereo: Desert ants perceive odor maps in navigation
"Spatial perception can easily be acquired if two separate sensory organs are available, such as two eyes for visual orientation. [...] Stereo smelling in animals is not new -- rats and humans are thought to have this ability as well." (filed under: ants smell rodents) (via: rhwe)
Shiny fridgewheelsMitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers workshop with fizzPOPGlanced at: Ubisoft apologises after attackers block games | Technology | guardian.co.uk • Can a Game Save the World? | Mssv • Should you use ad blockers or not? | Technology | guardian.co.uk • Scott and Scurvy • Make: Online : Hack Your Brain - Make Video Podcast • Digital Urban: London Twitter Cloud • You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website >> malcolm coles • 10 sites that say it's OK to print their pages - but not photocopy them >> malcolm coles • player.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) • Paper Clips • Compare Prices on Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360) | Game Crawler UK • Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Giant two pence piece turns heads at Kew Gardens - Telegraph • Girl starved to death while parents raised virtual child in online game | World news | guardian.co.uk • Toward a Ludic Architecture: The Space of Play and Games | ETC-Press • YouTube - Harry Hill's TV Burp - Eastenders - Bradley's Funeral & I Love Croydon song

Wednesday the Third

Wisdom of the crowd: interactive theatre is where it's at | Lyn Gardner | Stage | guardian.co.uk
"[Those] like myself who came from a theatrical background arrived in the space and waited for something to happen, while the gamers immediately started pulling the set apart looking for clues (in one instance so thoroughly that he had to be stopped)." (filed under: games theatre design)
b2squareHawkstone Parkthe national theatre london postage stamp55/365 - Developer BingoDoctor Who and the Daleks, December 1972.Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, c 1975.Glanced at: M115 bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Gamasutra: David Hayward's Blog - Pervasive Play • Achievements • Rands In Repose: Gaming the System • Yelp Official Blog: Additional thoughts on last week's lawsuit, or How a Conspiracy Theory is Born • BBC News - Many young voters not registered, says watchdog • Two chairs for Innovation (blog) < Blog < The Arts Catalyst • Pixel-Love >> Blog Archive >> Pervasive Play • Scott Adams Blog: Crazy or Disciplined? 03/02/2010 • D Nye Everything: Breaking a ButterFry on a wheel - the flaming of Twitter • Less Wrong: Willpower Hax #487: Execute by Default • Twitter / Seneca the Younger: It is better, of course, t ... • Back to the Future: The BBC is still dead | Mssv • notes.husk.org. An advert from a campaign to boost magazine sales,.... • Year of the Dungeon: Bookworm Dungeon • The BBC is caving in to a Tory media policy dictated by Rupert Murdoch | Jonathan Freedland | Comment is free | The Guardian • BBC News - Earth's true colours in Nasa's Blue Marble images • Apocalypse Cakes • LED Jellies • The Vegetarian Society - National Vegetarian Week 1993 - mushroom & coriander gratin

Tuesday the Second

The Next Big Thing In Video Games Might Be Fear Of Embarrassment - Innovation - Kotaku
"It sounds like FarmVille would only let you retire in that same sorry state I left my Animal Crossing town in on my GameCube half a decade ago, house full of weeds, roaches crawling, but with the added Facebook bonus of my friends being able to see that mess. Yes, I can see how I'd keep playing to avoid that shame." (filed under: games design psychology) (via: zarba)
In The WingsFull bikeDon't even think of parking here...Urban Erosion, HomertonDice friezeGlanced at: STRANGE GAMES: Bang! • Valve Fans Triumphant: Glimmerings of a Portal ARG | ARGNet: Alternate Reality Gaming Network • A Higher Standard Game Designer Jonathan Blow Challenges Super Marios Gold Coins, Unethical MMO Design And Everything Else You May Hold Dear About Video Games >> MTV Multiplayer • BFI | National Archive | The Work of the Archive | History • How the internet could save BBC 6 Music : Tech Digest • Brown revives 101 scheme for reporting antisocial behaviour | UK news | The Guardian • Slow-scan television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Slow-scan television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • muchoblur.png (PNG Image, 710435 pixels) • Cloudplane: VVVVVV: I came, I saw, I died a hell of a lot • Facebook | Videos posted by AKQA: The story of 221b. [HQ] • YouTube - OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version • Millions of Tons of Water Ice Found at Moons North Pole | Wired Science | Wired.com • The London Dossier: Chapter 3 - Drink - Londonist

Monday the First

Warrick - Recover Your Lost Website
"Warrick is a free utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the following web repositories for missing resources: Internet Archive, Google, Bing (formerly Live Search), and Yahoo. All of the resources are gathered together and provided to you as a single collection of files." (filed under: web history)
Museum Signs; IntimidatingtereshkovaPress for DESIGN!Snake oil? Scientific evidence for health supplementsTypewriterGlanced at: one red paperclip • Angry In Lambeth? You're Not Alone - Londonist • YouTube - The Sandpit • ia play :: trying out the screen-reader experience • Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com • vector poem >> Coelacanth: Lessons from Doom • OBLIGE Home • Running the Tube << The Next Challenge • Information is beautiful: The BBC-O-Gram | News | guardian.co.uk • Omegle Text Adventure at Kontraband • Cell phones show human movement predictable 93% of the time

Friday the Twenty-Sixth of February

Less Wrong: Akrasia Tactics Review
"I recently had occasion to review some of the akrasia tricks I've found on Less Wrong, and it occurred to me that there's probably quite a lot of others who've tried them as well. Perhaps it's a good idea to organize the experiences of a couple dozen procrastinating rationalists?" (filed under: time psychology software delusions hacking) (via: adrianhon)
DO NOT CHANGE WHILE RUNNING / UNNORMALArduinoGlanced at: Warp Skip! | It's dangerous to go alone take Church-Rosser Theorem • pictures for sad children • BBC signals an end to era of expansion - Times Online • Akrasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Wanted: Hand-Drawn Maps Of London - Londonist • pageaddict • Three sided football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • LukeW | "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% • Open Rights Group | The Death of open wifi • Facebook Glitch Sends Wrong Messages - Digits - WSJ • Old story is similar to Ala. prof's Mass. shooting - Yahoo! News • auntie pixelante star guard • Warp Skip! | Low-fi Lowdown • YouTube - The Mixable Dancer • Twitter hack hits cabinet and bank - Channel 4 News • Enigma Homepage • Killing BBC 6 Music would be a slap in the face to licence-payers | Media | guardian.co.uk

Thursday the Eighteenth

Courthouse News Service - Families Say Schools Snoop in Their Homes With District-Issued Laptops & Webcams
"The named plaintiffs say they learned that Big Brother was in their home when an assistant principal told their son that the school district knew he 'was engaged in improper behavior in his home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in minor plaintiff's personal laptop issued by the school district.'" (filed under: surveillance children computers) (via: holly)
Yesssss! I made Pseud's Corner!London Cycle Hire SchemeGlanced at: The PCC got it right on Jan Moir complaint | Matthew Cain's blog • Wikipedia wins the Google lottery - but why? | Technology | guardian.co.uk • Starling flock forms shape of rabbit - Telegraph • The Case For An Older Woman << OkTrends • Music Journalism is the New Piracy | Electronic Frontier Foundation • Integrating translation into Google Goggles - Google Translate Blog • TopatoCo: Pressure Points Shirt • Kevin Rudd On Why Young Women Should Be Having Babies • Q-Cards | Board Game | BoardGameGeek • The 25 most awesome mugs ever created - FrancescoMugnai.com - Graphic Design Inspiration and Web Design Trends • Now scientists say "Stop reading the Daily Express to enjoy a longer life"! - Martin Belam's currybetdotnet blog - 18 February, 2010 • Mark Watson the Comedian >> Blog • Southbank Sandpit | Southbank Centre. • Forgotten Assyrian God Revived To Name Sports Drink | The Onion - America's Finest News Source • SeeSaw 3,000 hours of TV programmes on one website, on demand | Media | The Guardian • It's a sad truth, but there is a lot of fake wine out there | World news | The Guardian • One Button Bob :: Silvergames.com • 'Death In East London' a critique of taxidermy by Charlie Phillips | Run-Riot • Half Man Half Biscuit: 2009 Roadwater gig on Huffduffer • YouTube - The Last Lovecraft The Relic of Cthulhu Official Trailer • Civilization V Hexes PCs This Fall - Sid Meier's Civilization V - Kotaku • ShadyURL - Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.

Tuesday the Sixteenth

Bernie DeKoven, funsmith: Some walking games from Phil Smith
"The city is under occupation by intelligent microbes, Martian bodysnatchers, mind control rays - you can't tell the resisters from the wholly invaded. Do not attract attention to yourself. Choose routes where the least number of people will see you. Use alleys and back paths. Walk calmly through crowds. Show no emotions. Ignore commodities. Hide your hunger." (filed under: walking games delusions zombies)
200. Horrid Children in LiteraturecanberraGlanced at: Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • YouTube - SMBC Theater - Lie Detector • cookbook (cookbook) on Twitter • Clive Thompson in Praise of Online Obscurity | Magazine • KrazyDad >> Blog Archive >> Mayor of the North Pole • Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop on Vimeo • Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps | Video on TED.com • Google goes on PR offensive over Buzz flaws | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Saturday the Thirteenth

This Is a Mosquito Getting Killed By a Laser - Gizmodo
Tracking mosquito movement and burning their wings off with a pinpoint laser. "The idea behind the 'Death Star' laser is that it could be used to control mosquito populations in developing countries in hopes of reducing the number of deaths due to malaria." (filed under: insects light death pestilence technology) (via: waxy)
Furby + ThingamagoopGlanced at: DOGHOUSE | Google Buzz Trick • http://livinginoblivion.wordpress.com/ • PC Gamer: Spelunky And The Robot Apocalypse, by Tom Francis

Tuesday the Ninth

Industrial-Strength Fungus - TIME
"After the husks are cooked, sprayed with water and myco-vitamins and seeded with mushroom spores, the mixture is poured into a mold of the desired shape and left to grow in a dark warehouse. A week or two later, the finished product is popped out and the material rendered biologically inert." (filed under: architecture fungi construction) (via: zarba)
Reflected Down 2Glanced at: YouTube - The placebo effect • 433 Secret Caves of the Lizard People << Strange Maps • Mule Design Studio's Blog: The Failure of Empathy • Kosmograd: Why 2010 wont be like '2010' • World's first personal carbon credit earns $17 cashback for one tonne of carbon dioxide | Environment | guardian.co.uk • | Granta Magazine • Jantar Mantar

Monday the First

69 Love Songs, Illustrated.
"We are a loose collection of mostly London-based comic-artists, illustrators and writers [who] decided that illustrating – or writing a comic – or a short story – inspired by all 69 songs was a worthwhile and exciting pursuit!" (filed under: music comics art love) (via: currybet)
Lost in Venice, board gameDr D - Government warning (David Cameron)32/365 - Sunset from the Michael Young buildingGlanced at: turingtest2 • Video Library - royalsociety.tv - The Royal Society • Interview: Danny Wallace - Assassin's Creed II | Technology | guardian.co.uk • Apple iPad will choke innovation, say open internet advocates | Technology | guardian.co.uk • Day of the Triffids: How long would the Internet survive, and could you still publish news on it? - Martin Belam's currybetdotnet blog - 1 February, 2010 • They Write For You • Homeopathy proven to work after overdosing protesters eventually fall asleep | newsarse.com • BBC News - Scams affect one in 10 Britons, says OFT • Charlie Brooker | iPad therefore iWant? Probably. Why? iDunno | Comment is free | The Guardian • Sir Terry Pratchett calls for euthanasia tribunals | Society | guardian.co.uk • Bald Eagle Tired Of Everyone Just Assuming It Supports War | The Onion - America's Finest News Source • Rogue Warrior < Reviews | PopMatters • GoodGNUs >> Surrealist writing game - BarCamp Manchester 2

Thursday the Twenty-Eighth of January

Panopticlick
"When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer's configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. Some companies are already using technology to try to identify individual computers." (filed under: web surveillance secrets fonts) (via: brendan)
Grand Union CanalTea Coffee Biscuits BeerSprinkler Stop ValveGlanced at: Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened? • Video - The Zoomable Map • Ideashop • Police recently termed protestors 'domestic extremists' so th... on Twitpic • Lingt • How To Write Badly Well • Dolores Labs Blog >> Altruism on Amazon Mechanical Turk • Free Publicity: Who do we help? - Anil Dash • If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold • Play Paywall!, the new web game sweeping the newspaper industry >> Nieman Journalism Lab • Romn Corts >> Pure CSS Coke Can • About Axe Cop • The Airplot Design Contest | Greenpeace UK • Facebook | The Daily Mail list of 'Things that give you cancer'. • The Millions: Confessions of a Book Pirate • RainyMood.com • Kilburn, London, Theatres & Halls • Tweet-o-Meter - Giving you an insight into Twitter activity from around the world! • Paying Zero for Public Services | Exploring the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere

Friday the Twenty-Second

Frankie Peanuts and Coercive Logic
Logically exploiting an answer-yes-or-no Magic card (albeit from the joke Unhinged expansion). "Yes or no: You will do the actions in exactly 1 of the two following groups of actions: The first group is answering ‘no.’ The second group is forfeiting this turn but first giving me one rare of my choice from your deck." (filed under: games mtg maths)
IMG_3004Space InvadersCircuit-bending a Funky FurbyGlanced at: docent - galleries for Kevan • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal • Speechification: More Than A Game: The Football War • Caleb Larsen >> A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter • The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures << OkTrends • Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report • Joseph Ducreux / Archaic Rap | Know Your Meme • Discovered: the west pole, somewhere in London >> malcolm coles • Blurbflies (Sing. Blurbfly) by Jeff Noon from Nymphomation • Jackie's School Food Blog: Vile coco pops ads targeting children on their way to school • Tom Gauld - the art of war • Coercive Logic@Everything2.com • Head of ATSC 'bomb detector' company arrested on suspicion of fraud - Times Online • D Nye Everything: Games of the Year - Left 4 Dead 2 • PodcastFerret.com - The Adam & Joe Xfm Podcast

Monday the Eighteenth

Program Creates Computer-Generated Sports Stories : NPR
"StatsMonkey takes the statistics from a baseball game and produces a computer-generated news story about that game." [...] "We're really aiming this at a genuinely local audience. We're trying to write the stories no one else is writing." (filed under: news sport software) (via: mugla)
Street Plot on Flickr - Photo Sharing!Hope on Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Silly Numbers And Other Things - Pen v keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone (Phil Gyfords website) - The Director of Downfall Speaks Out on All Those Angry YouTube Hitlers -- Vulture - In The Games Of Madness: How Gameplay and Narrative kill Meaning in "Games" - Flickr: Control Panel - Help not hinder Haiti | Red Cross Blogs - BBC - A History of the World | Sheldon Tapestry Map Of Warwickshire - Black Cherokee - The Winger - Hope on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Street Plot on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - NEW london in pen and paper PRINT 11x 14 by studiokmo on Etsy - Conservatives: Adopt a married couple < Beau Bo D'Or - Mock tube station gives London Underground staff real-life training - People Management Magazine Online - Alectryomancy Definition | Definition of Alectryomancy at Dictionary.com - U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes - ABC News - Anti-science can be a lethal game | Alexander Holmes | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk -
This is an automatically reformatted view of my del.icio.us bookmarks, with tiny contrails of pages I've glanced at, my Flickr photos, my Last FM recent tracks, and my five most recently-played Xbox 360 games. I really should add Huffduffer at some point as well. There's a combined RSS feed of the delicious, Flickr and Huffduffer at FeedDigest, if anyone wants it.