Best Indie iPhone Game of 2010: Spider

Congratulations 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 [...]

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Iranian Election Protests

Follow live updates at the Guardian. Update 6/20: New evidence emerges of fraudulent election results. Washington Post

Dymaxion Elementary

Buckminster 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

“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

A 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., [...]