December 2010
10 posts
Reading: on sandbox games
We bought ourselves a bunch of books for christmas with an Amazon gift certificate. I’m just starting to read a couple of ‘em, particularly Second Person, a collection of essays about story in games. It’s divided up into sections about the tabletop, computers, and the real world. It comes with a sweet collection of appendixes containing complete rules for role-playing games...
“WHILE JULIAN Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, celebrated his release on bail...”
– The Irish Times: Alleged Wikileaks source suffers out of spotlight (via bingoparaphernalia)
Um yeah, maybe we should try and keep things in perspective?
(via jenniferanne)
Lots more on this at Salon
“The Wikileaks method punishes…all human undertakings, but perversely...”
– Give Me Something To Read: The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks
Somewhere under this article is buried an interesting discussion of privilege on the internet, but I didn’t find it because I couldn’t even be bothered to finish reading. Faced with a wall of...
Watchlukesimcoe:
Wow… I don’t know what to make of this. Part of my theory regarding 4chan and Anonymous is that their outward expressions are crafted so that those lacking the subcultural capital will react to it, or perhaps more accurately, over-react to it and misinterpret it, thereby generating all kinds of lulz for the people in the know. Essentially, every time someone freaks out about 4chan...
WARHOL FOUNDATION DEMANDS REINSTATEMENT OF... →
tk5:
BOOOOM!!!
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On artist talks, and famous artists
Since our recent arrival in Glasgow I’ve seen Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan perform discussions about their work on three separate occasions—giving the staff a tour of their recent CCA show, participating as privileged audience members under discussion at a conversation about experimental exhibition spaces by Francis McKee and Gavin Wade, and most recently following Saturday’s...
“The censorship of David Wojnarowicz’s work from the National Portrait Gallery is...”
– Dan Cameron in an amazing piece on the importance of artist David Wojnarowicz.*
(via hydeordie & sympathyfortheartgallery)
“I am SO SICK today of people who can’t see that
1) Wikileaks is important and...”
– TBD commenter Woodscolt (via nickminichino)
THANK YOU. Yes.
(via jenniferanne)
Real Talk.
Addendum: I have read (and no I didn’t look it up) that this is the first time that Sweden has pursued an international warrant against a suspect in a sexual assault or rape-related investigation....
