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Link "Videogames are the experience of being ruled"
Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed…

May 17 2012, 3:32am | Comments
Twitter Links Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes
An excellent example of distributed cognition. The hope that swarms of gamers can help to solve difficult biological problems has been given another boost…

March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments
Twitter Links Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language
"Christopher Shea writes in the WSJ that physicists studying Google's massive collection of scanned books claim to have identified universal laws governing the birth,…

March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments
Twitter Links When independent thought flourishes
One of the things I instinctively hated about my “ancestral culture,” that of Bangladesh, is that there wasn’t that great of an emphasis on…

March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments
Twitter Links How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper?
Begin the entry in the works-cited list with the author's real name and, in parentheses, user name, if both are known and they differ.…

March 4 2012, 11:05am | Comments
Link “Seriality for All”: The Role of Protocols and…
For many years, philosophers have been casting doubt on the common identification with meaning and signification as the primary human response mechanisms to the world. If we wish to understand…

September 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments
Link Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior
Pac-Man is one of the most iconic video games of all time, and most people (even non-gamers) have at least a passing familiarity with it. The purpose of the game…

December 5 2010, 5:10am | Comments
Link Purpose-Driven Life
Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at…

October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments
Link Bad Writing and Bad Thinking
Orwell leaves us with a list of simple rules: * Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. * Never…

April 29 2010, 2:55pm | Comments
Metafilter A taxonomy of GAMES / game types? Types of Games: I have come across various attempts to catalogue the possible varieties of stories that exist. The basic assumption being that all plots (narratives?) can be…

March 10 2010, 9:39am | Comments
Link Code is Law
Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about…

February 7 2010, 10:20am | Comments
Link From Eternity to Here
The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is…

January 12 2010, 3:15am | Comments
Link Divine Wilderness
PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the…

January 8 2010, 10:02am | Comments

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