If we didn’t learn anything else during the first presidential debate of 2012, we at last now know that Mitt Romney loves Big Bird.
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Mitt Romney Loves Big Bird
Nine Inch Nails “Hesitation Marks” Free Album Stream on iTunes
Apple Inc. and Nine Inch Nails are providing a free iTunes stream of NIN’s newest album Hesitation Marks prior to its release. Click on the album art, open the album in iTunes, and get it while it’s hot.
The Science of Hipster Music
Priceonomics created a chart that scientifically measures the hipster factor of music. This is an application of their data crawl service. They used ratings data from the independent music review site Pitchfork and correlated it against the number of Facebook ‘likes’ of the review.
Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture
Livestreams on November 8 & 9. Thanks to our friend Tim for the heads up!
Experience Cancer Through a Video Game
Meredith MacMartin, a palliative care doctor in New Hampshire, recently posted about the video game That Dragon, Cancer.
Inside the McLaren Technology Centre
At first you think it’s just a regular documentary on a car facility. They’re talking with one of the head guys and the showroom is pretty impressive. Great architecture, great…
Why Katharine Haché is Playing Games With Stories
Katharine Haché is a graduate student at East Tennessee State University that has developed interactive fiction using TWINE. We started our discussion talking about classic arcade games Burger Time and Mario Bros. Not unlike many of us who grew up in the 80’s, Katherine played those games with her parents. She pointed out how those early experiences helped generate fond family memories and affected her current interests in storytelling. Other points that were made in the interview pertained to the nature of video games, the publishing industry around them, and the tropes and clichés their stories often rely on.
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