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"Pixel City is a procedurally-generated city by Shamus Young. For the non-coders out there, this essentially means that based on a certain set of rules, this 3-D city is generated dynamically each time the program runs."

"For any and all steps existing in a parallel universe, follow as directed and add beard."

Darius explains how to write a resume if you want to get past the HR barrier and out of the giant stack of CVs. Good for students and at least half the pro's resumes I've seen.

An organized chronicle of trying to find Sterling's seemingly unrecorded SXSW2009 keynote. Meanwhile Chairman Bruce seems rather pleased with the outcome "You pretty much had to be there." http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/04/sxswi-you-prett.html

Because it never hurts to have access to fonts that are free. (as long as you use them responsibly)

Level of competition on SFIV is incredibly high, but just watch Daigo come out and play his incredibly aggressive style. Props to Wong for using one of the new characters (Rufus).

"A biosuit augmented physicist, a medieval assassin brought to life by virtual reality, and a telekinetic commando… these are all protagonists from games (rightly) championed for their narratives – so why does it read like a list of fantasy careers by Tom, Age 6?"

Intelligent mistakes to make an AI which the player can deal with and feel challenged by rather than cheated.

"We now have the technology to create whole new classes of tools for living in a way that is more useful and fun for individuals, more sustainable for society, and more profitable for companies. That way is to recognize the connectedness of all everyday things, and to build on it, rather than ignoring it.”

DotA post-mort full of interesting details about the mod and how something so organic got built.

Everything from opening a bottle with a dollar bill to emergency delivery of a baby.

"Dubstep doesn't need loyalty. It's not a fragile little creature that needs to be nurtured — at its centre, it's a big, ugly and increasingly popular monster that is gorging itself into immobility."

"…firstly to critically and speculatively interrogate the deployment of sound systems, the deployment of vibrational force, in the affective modulation of populations. Secondly to examine the role that sonic intensity, a kind of art of war in the art of noise, has played in the theories of aesthetic innovation, from futurism to Afrofuturism."

Perhaps the most realistic and grounded Bruce Sterling presentation I've ever seen. Addressing an audience in Seoul he lays out the challenge of a hyper connected South Korea absorbing North Korea when its government eventually collapses.

Good read for issues in usability that often plague any kind of software development.

Ridiculously fast downhill longboarding by two guys in suits.

A puzzle game that feels like Fez's cousin.

As much as the stupidity surrounding people freaking out about the LHC was getting on my nerves this is still amusing.