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Total Immersion is Total Crap
“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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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, [...] -
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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.
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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 [...]
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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 nothing.” [...] -
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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.
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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 continuing to [...] -
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Remember This?
07.29.09 | Permalink | Comments Off.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }Remember 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 off a bridge. [...] -
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GIF Rip from The Wackness
03.14.09 | Permalink | Comments OffAppeared on Animated Gifs from Delicious.
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Are We Too Jaded to Play Simulators Anymore?
02.20.09 | Permalink | Comments OffRemember when it just used to be mind blowing to simply “feel” like you were “flying” an A-10 in A-10 Tank Killer? Who cared if you actually killed any tanks.
Now gaming is all about flow theory and keeping players reaching for the next carrot on a stick.
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HOWTO Get a Free Nintendo Wii
02.05.09 | Permalink | Comments OffAs a likely a side effect of the recent worldwide financial instability, I’ve known a lot of people that have decided to be more disciplined about their savings and finances. Good idea!
That said, I’m surprised that despite this new movement towards frugality, millions of people continue to participate in the single worst savings plan [...] -
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HOWTO Use Amazon EC2 for Bittorrent
01.17.09 | Permalink | 12 CommentsBittorrent, for how brilliant it is, is becoming a problem. You’ve probably heard about how ISPs are choosing to throttle even legitimate usage of the protocol as it slowly eats away at their bandwidth. Additionally, Inter-office VoIP networks can become crippled by just a few employees seeding last week’s episode of Battlestar. For me, at [...]
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Twitter Command Prefix
01.02.09 | Permalink | Comments OffThe saga of dmfail.com is all the proof you need that there should be a command prefix for Twitter.
What I mean is Twitter should have some special character that signifies that you would like to ask a special feature of the service. It would have to be something that would be available on mobile phones [...] -
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Linux is the “Slow Food” of Computing
11.15.08 | Permalink | 2 Commentsphoto courtesy of zopeuse
For a long time I wasn’t entirely sure why I begin to use Linux as my primary computing platform. The Open Source idea had a lot to do with it, for sure, but I am no Open Source zealot. At most I’m a polite evangelist – when I have the energy. [...] -
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Some More Favorite Tweets
As I have nothing to write about. Been making too much internet lately, I guess. Oh and I am negatendo on twitter, of course, if you want to follow me.
fireland Well, it’s official: I’m the only person on alt.tv.bosom-buddies.fanfic who still respects the fucking canon.
mike_ftw I’m confused as to how the world went to [...] -
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At Last, The Lasers
10.02.08 | Permalink | Comments Off.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }
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As a child, every year I wanted the cool laser background for my Junior High school photo more than anything in the world. I mean, lasers! Lasers rule.
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Stop Calling Video Games Art
09.28.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsPlease stop calling video games art.
Art is a name you give something to keep people from taking it seriously.
It’s a name you give something to make it safe. Names in general do that.
Think about the good “art” today and you will see how it’s trying not to be “art” – “art” as in something [...] -
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Quote of the Moment
09.25.08 | Permalink | Comments OffI love how all of those ideas you came up with while doing bong rips are suddently monetizable with the Internet.
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