August 2010 Archives

Put This On, Episode 3: Work:

The Beatles: Get Back Rehearsal:

Also, a Hey Jude rehearsal take:

(Via DeWitt via Bobby Owsinski.)

Homebrew Cray-1A.

Things You Think by Ben Folds, Nick Hornby, & Pomplamoose:

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BBC Micros used in retro programming class. Using personal computers from the '80s to teach students how computers work.

You Are Not Seth Godin.

Only one of many important points in this article:

Aside from being very smart about marketing, the author needs to have the staff in place to execute, execute, execute, daily, daily, daily. Many authors will underestimate how expensive and time consuming this is.

How Authors Really Make Money: The Rebirth of Seth Godin and Death of Traditional Publishing.

First off, writing books is a terrible revenue model for authors. ...

Making Metagun, time lapse video of an indie game developer making a pixel-y platformer:

Solipskier, cool game for web and iPhone. (Music starts a little loud, adjust speakers appropriately.)

StarCraft II match, TT1 vs. MasterAsia, with commentary from HDstarcraft, part 1 of 4:

Part 2, part 3, part 4. Better than televised poker.

(Via DeWitt.)

Portal now required reading at Wabash College.

Camera comparison:

Worst Mario Game Ever. Wittily written and thoughtfully illustrated personal essay, with enough nostalgia to make a 32-year-old man's head explode.

Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi World Where All His Interactions Take Place In Cyberspace, The Onion.

The making of a JS1K demo, Steven Wittens. Cool animation in 1,000 characters of JavaScript code.

Cycles:

CYRIAK'S AMAZING VIDEO BLOG. (Via waxy.)

The Gameshelf #8: Modern Interactive Fiction, a rather amazingly good 10-minute overview of the form for the layperson:

Includes shots of Nick Montfort's drool-worthy IF and classic computer collection, as well as interview footage with Nick himself. And Andrew Plotkin, even.