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Best Indie iPhone Game of 2010: Spider
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010Congratulations to Dave Kalina and his team at Tiger Style Games for winning the IGF Mobile Best Game Award at the 2010 Independent Games Festival for their amazing iPhone game Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor. This review explains better than I could how well the game is designed. When I beta-tested [...]
LMU Number One
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Iranian Election Protests
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009Follow live updates at the Guardian. Update 6/20: New evidence emerges of fraudulent election results. Washington Post
Dymaxion Elementary
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map painted on a wall at Becker Elementary on 906 West Milton St., Austin, Texas. [Google Map]. “Unlike most other projections, the Dymaxion is intended purely for representations of the entire globe. It is not a gnomonic projection, whereby global data expands from the center point of a tangent facet outward to [...]
Yes We Can
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008“Our destiny is shared…Democracy, liberty, and unyielding hope. That’s the true genius of America. That America can change. That our union can be perfected.” — Barack Obama
Detention, Deficit, Disorder
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008A local news station in Denver, Colorado does an excellent job covering something relatively new on the US political scene: mass detention centers. According to this $385 million Halliburton contract, our government expects to use and build more of these large scale detention centers to handle an “emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., [...]
