May 2013
10 posts
jimray: There’s something so boringly obvious... →
jimray:
There’s something so boringly obvious about Kara Swisher’s behind-the-scenes look at how Facebook came to own Instagram. To fans of Silicon Valley drama (amongst whom Swisher seems to count herself), it’s a breathless tale of luck, determination, and picking the decisive moment to pivot. From a…
spot on
April 2013
30 posts
Road Redemption →
Road Rash-style gameplay, with next-gen graphics, physics, and online play!
This is everything wrong with Kickstarter game development, condensed into a single Kickstarter campaign.
For starters, the “footage” they show is almost certainly a target video - rendered (not in game engine) footage intended to show what the game could feel like, before there’s actually a game...
Monitoring Breathing via Signal Strength in... →
This paper shows experimentally that standard wireless networks which measure received signal strength (RSS) can be used to reliably detect human breathing and estimate the breathing rate, an application we call “BreathTaking”. We show that although an individual link cannot reliably detect breathing, the collective spectral content of a network of devices reliably indicates the...
“{I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours...”
– Evil Blog Comment Spammer just exposed his template through some error and the whole thing showed up in my comments. [Extract] (via new-aesthetic)
“Don’t you just hate it when you’re at a party and start making out with a cute...”
– Helpful New App Keeps People From Sleeping With Their Cousins | Betabeat (via new-aesthetic)
“All bad writers are in love with the epic.”
– Ernest Hemingway / via Maria Popover @brainpicker (via 55cards)
“Attackers wait until the price of Bitcoins reaches a certain value, sell,...”
– Sci-fi writers, you’re supposed to think this stuff up before criminals do:
Dual cyber-attacks hit Bitcoin virtual currency systems — RT News (via slavin)
“Robert Edwards had been on the popular dating site OKCupid.com for about six...”
– Testing Online Privacy Limits, OKCupid Lets Strangers Read Intimate Messages | San Francisco Public Press (via new-aesthetic)
March 2013
21 posts
2 tags
BAD GAMES: Badger →
bad-games:
This game can be played by anyone attending the 2013 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California. The object of the game is to avoid being badgered. The other object of the game is to badger badgers.
I made a bad game for GDC!
