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Game Developer's Conference 2008

Posted Feb 18, 2008 (Updated Feb 19, 2008)

This week, thanks to Simon Carless at GameSetWatch, I'm going to the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco this week. I'll be writing about the conference daily and guest-publishing over at GSW.

If you're going, let me know. I'll be updating my current location on Twitter intermittently if you want to get together.

~~Also, if anyone out there works at Valve or can otherwise get me into the Valve party on Wednesday night, get in touch! You'll be my new best friend.~~ Thank you, kind anonymous insider. I owe you cake.

Waxy Links

July 18, 2008

The Quirkbook — Rands polls Twitter for everyone's odd quirks and mildly OCD mannerisms

Jane McGonigal on Werewolf at Foo Camp 2008 — ideal strategies, a sneaky all-villager variation, and the impact of the werewolf metaphor

Google interviews the creators of WarGames — great trivia about the making of the film and its impact on tech culture

July 17, 2008

Logan Aube's Hockey Night theme — Something Awful goons tweak an online contest with funny results (via)

July 16, 2008

Sean Tevis is running for Kansas State Representative, XKCD-style — help a computer geek defeat the incumbent, a hard-right, anti-privacy Creationist; he's trying to get 3,000 to donate $9 each

How to Fake Being a Wine Snob — there might be supertasters out there, but most people are just faking it

The Economist responds to Freakonomics co-author's pasty/pastry mixup — tasty response to this original post (via)

Mike Arrington interviews Evan Williams at Foo Camp — great interview; thoughtful questions and brimming with information, without the sensationalism

Rick Trooper — The Empire rolls you.

Mocha VNC Lite, free VNC client for the iPhone — link opens in iTunes; like others, I'm hoping an SSH client is next

Annalee Newitz on Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog — exceeds the hype; the site's been down all day, so I just bought the season in iTunes for $3.99

July 15, 2008

The Sound of Young America Live interviews Ze Frank — strange interview, but talks about the end of The Show and current projects; see also: Jay Smooth from Ill Doctrine (via)

Defender of the favicon — staggering hack puts a playable Defender clone in your browser's 16x16 favicon; Firefox and Opera only

Twitter officially acquires Summize — search.twitter.com is now live

July 14, 2008

Deep Note, the Guitar Hero bot — it got 820k points and 98% playing Through the Fire and Flames; amazingly, some humans can still beat it, for now (via)

Unofficial RSS feed of newly-added App Store applications — until Apple adds their own, I've been keeping tabs using this

Daily Mail tries to unmask Banksy's secret identity — unconfirmed, but definitely seems likely

Trailer for August, indie drama about the dot-com bubble — the fictional dot-com is called Land Shark, but they never explain what they do (via)

Lee Byron maps walkability in San Francisco — built using Walkscore, Google Maps, and Processing

Radiohead releases dataset for House of Cards video — 370MB of CSV point data, Processing code, and a 3D viewer of Thom Yorke's face (via)

July 11, 2008

Preview video of Last.fm's iPhone app — no scrobbling from your iPod, but an outstanding streaming player (via)

Wall-E Down to Earth — fan film takes a Wall-E toy on a tour of real life

Ask the Pilot covers his recent experiences with the TSA — they wouldn't allow a pilot to carry a butter knife used for in-flight meals

Techcrunch runs the numbers on App Store's first day pre-sales — sadly, Apple removed the download counts this evening

Patton Oswalt's commencement speech at his old high school — "There Is No Them." (via)

July 10, 2008

I Eat Beats — drum sequencer built with webcam, Processing, and a bag of Skittles

Journalist examines America's rail system on an 85-hour trip from NYC to Oakland — nobody cares about the railroads anymore (via)

Bush jokes about America's pollution record to G8 world leaders — "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter!"

iPhone 3G or Millionaire — the choice is easy

Flickr user hit by lightning while recording a rainstorm — "because you insisted, here's the unedited screaming version."

Game Developer's Conference 2008

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