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Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
04.29.12 | Permalink | Comments OffThis poem is my center. I recommend it to anyone lacking one. You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your [...]
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Scrying URLs
The 140 character limit on Twitter is definitely important in regards to what it does to conversation and information density. It can be annoying at times, but it is a crucial part of its design. This is why the shortened URLs break my heart. They seem like such an unfortunate victim of this, because an [...]
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This Blog is Alive
09.16.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsA friend asked me the other day, “What’s up with your blog? Is it dead?” Of course not. It’s alive and well. And when I have something to post, I will post it. You’ve probably read this before: “I haven’t posted in a year, therefore you must think I’m dead,” and then the author proceeds [...]
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Confession Time
Ok this is going to be hard but here it goes. I actually am a sophisticated, multi-platform spambot that has been subtly attempting to influence your purchasing decisions for years. I hope we can still be friends. Gotta’ say though, damn has the money been good….
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Why I Like MLKSHK
05.16.11 | Permalink | Comments OffAndre Torrez and his wife Amber went out on their own to form a company called Simpleform and, as of last Friday, are now allowing anyone to sign up for their first product, called MLKSHK. (MLKSHK’s disemvoweled name referencing of course to (what was originally) “…an alcoholic whiskey drink that has been described as a [...]
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Bolo
04.13.11 | Permalink | Comments Off“Bolo is the Hindi word for communication. Bolo is about computers communicating on the network, and more important about humans communicating with each other, as they argue, negotiate, form alliances, agree stategies, etc.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(video_game)
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Gabe Newell
04.13.11 | Permalink | Comments OffGet The Potato Sack and join in on the one-of-a-kind limited-time crossover sleuthing game event of the season! 13 indie games, each just updated with portal 2 content! Plus, if you own all 13 of the games in this pack (or purchase this pack), get a special Team Fortress 2 potato hat and a special [...]
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Quit Invading My Privacy While I Film My Reality Show
11.05.10 | Permalink | Comments OffThe true threat of having the social web “invade” your privacy isn’t that its going to end up getting your house robbed (e.g. make excessive information available to the general public), but that it’s going to make it harder for you to control your personal mythology. Facebook is a system for creating a profile – [...]
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Fuck Politics Start a Corporation
11.03.10 | Permalink | Comments OffIt’s great and all that your favorite politician was elected or ballot issue was passed or not passed, but whether you won or lost it’s just not worth the tears because so very little will happen in the end. The truth is most politicians will milk the issues rather than fix them because that’s the [...]
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Crackdown 2 and the Perils of Gameifying Everything
07.09.10 | Permalink | Comments OffIs Crackdown 2 a veiled warning against creating game-mechanics for everything? Stay with me for a second for a bit of over-analysis. In Crackdown 2 (which, let’s face it, is really just “Crackdown 2.0,” so this applies to Crackdown 1 as well) you play as a cloned bionic called an “Agent” who is working for [...]
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Columbo Box Set
07.01.10 | Permalink | Comments OffYou do know that all that information you give Facebook they use against you, right? From your name and your age to your photos and everything else. They use it to create marketing and advertising perfectly targeted towards you and your friends. It’s totally evil! Ok, the above quote isn’t actually attributed to anyone. It’s [...]
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Total Immersion is Total Crap
03.11.10 | Permalink | Comments Off“Total Immersion” is described as an artificially created sensory experience that you know isn’t real but leads you to be emotionally involved nonetheless. It’s typically used in describing a kind of mythical high-point for virtual reality hardware. The belief is that one day we will be able to plug our brains in to some device [...]
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Welcome this Week’s Guest Non-Blogger: Keith
03.02.10 | Permalink | Comments OffI am introducing a new feature today on Negatendo.net. Every week (maybe), I will choose a fellow non-blogger to guest non-blog on my site. Just like me, they won’t post or “blog” (as the kids like to say) anything at all. If you’re interested in being a guest non-blogger, just contact me. Being a guest [...]
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Dare to Tweet Stupid
02.17.10 | Permalink | 4 CommentsDear Internet, That Google Buzz kerflufle was scary, huh? No one wants their personal address book viewable to the world. Big mistake on Google’s part, no argument there. And things are just getting scarier in your private areas all the time now, huh? Did you see Please Rob Me? WT ever-loving F! Now, just because [...]
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Carrot on a Stick
01.06.10 | Permalink | Comments OffIf I were to make an un-authoritative and broad-stroke prediction about what new, pervading “thing” that we might see rise to the mainstream soon I would say its Game Mechanics for Everything. So yea, put me in that camp. Game mechanics, reward systems, flow theory, all come from our learning about how and why people [...]
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Stuck in a Twitter Caching K-Hole
10.11.09 | Permalink | Comments OffIf you do manage get in, please try to be logged in for a couple of hours and do not use any 3rd party applications. We think this might a cache issue on our end. Grr…
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Call of Duty 4 War Quotes
10.09.09 | Permalink | Comments OffI have been replaying Call of Duty 4 on Veteran difficulty for the last few days in preparation for November. If you’ve never played the game, every time you die (which is something that happens lot of on Veteran – the hardest difficulty), you are briefly shown a war-related quote. Some are are humorous, others [...]
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On the Game of Poker
09.09.09 | Permalink | Comments OffPoker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where – at least in the short run – the important thing is not what happens but [...]
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Alienation 2.0
08.16.09 | Permalink | Comments OffIf gin was the lubricant for moving into an urban, industrial society, then perhaps gaming is surging because it is the lubricant for moving into an age even more dramatically alienating. Many people I talk to about games say that games are particularly gratifying after a day at work where they felt like they “did [...]
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Translation Party Funtime
08.07.09 | Permalink | Comments OffHow much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood? it’s a secret to everybody (by @n0wak) An ode to blue, oh blue how much you annoy me. (by @tionm) I get different results often for various phrases. I wonder why. bork bork bork
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Let’s Buy Delicious Back from Yahoo!
07.30.09 | Permalink | 13 CommentsEnough. Using Kickstarter, we will start a massive fund-raising effort that with the express purpose of forming a cash offer for obtaining all Delicious code, user data, branding, IP, etc. from Yahoo! Inc. If the purchase is successful, Delicious will be reformed as a nonprofit, charitable organization not unlike Wikimedia/Mozilla, with the express purpose of [...]
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Remember This?
07.29.09 | Permalink | Comments OffRemember This?, originally uploaded by negatendo.
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Wolfram|Alpha and Screen Scraping
05.16.09 | Permalink | 18 CommentsPerhaps the oddest thing about Wolfram|Alpha is that the text that appears in query results is not text at all, but is in fact made up of dynamically generated GIFs: The Wolfram|Alpha FAQ claims: All output content is rendered as images, for consistency. Of course, a sentiment like that would make any web designer jump [...]
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