Facebook can be, apart from being one huge timesink, quite amusing sometimes. Mostly when you get shady friend requests.
So, there is this guy whose profile is usually hidden from everyone, except if you get a friend request from him. Which I did, some weeks ago. Notwithstanding that I never heard of him. So I wrote [...]
No on Prop 8 October 24, 2008 Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to [...]
Ambiguity from Kaspar Manz on Vimeo.
Flash screwed up parts of it while exporting. Nasty.
Even though today’s lecture about the emergence of culture through play was a more or less artistic mess, it provided me with a modern-day text about game definitions by Jesper Juul. What’s even more: it gives me a great reason to rant about it.
It already starts with the introduction. Juul actually proposes a new, or [...]
Thank the gods for the meta level. If you can’t say anything clever, just talk about not knowing what to say.
Anyway. So a new phase in my life started yesterday, with me taking up my studies in Game Design at the ZHdK. It promises to be quite an interesting time, with interesting people all around. [...]
We Didn’t Playtest This at All is so dumb that it goes around the corner and becomes kind of interesting. It’s kind of like Fluxx, only with less strategy and coherence (and if you know anything about that game, you know it’s already so devoid of strategy as to lack anything like coherence).
Play This Thing! [...]
Interessanterweise landen wir schon wieder bei Turing, wenn auch aus anderem Grunde.
In einem Sammelband von Aufsätzen zum Thema Spiel und Wissenschaft1 bin ich über folgende Stelle gestossen. Der Wissenschaftler (Bernhard Dotzler) war im Rahmen eines Symposiums aufgefordert worden, auf Fragen eines Fragebogens zu antworten.
Wer ist dein Lieblingswissenschaftler? «Turing.» Kannst du uns drei [...]
I was just reading Roger Caillois’ book about games when he brought up the argument that competitions (agôn) are not unlike theatre plays: according to him, they have a dramatic arch, and as such they need an audience. Obviously, that second argument has been refuted by theatre theorists quite some time ago. The competition can [...]
Bern, Bahnhof: am Bahnwagen hängt eine Gruppenreservation von Olten nach Basel. Ich steige ein, schließlich kommt man kaum einfacher an ein ruhiges Abteil. Kaum sitze ich ab, kommt der Zugbegleiter (oder wie die sich zur Zeit auch nennen).
Zugbegleiter: Wo fahren Sie hin? Ich: Nach Olten. Zugbegleiter: Können Sie nach hinten gehen? Hier ist reserviert. Ich: Ja, ich weiss, [...]
… even if it takes a very long time.
I just got a mail from the Uni Bern, informing me that I’ll get a new ID card for my last semester there (which I won’t have time to spend on campus).
The really great thing will be the fact that I’ll be able to use that card [...]
This, ladies and gentlemen, is just a test to see whether I can post from my iPhone. If yes, you just might expect a few more posts from me in the future.
(And of course, I just totally have to brag now …)
I should have expected that – after declaring my renunciation of the church, I got a questionnaire asking for the reasons. Possible answers included a change of confession, a change of religion, church taxes, questions of faith, attitude of the parish or, last but not least, “anger”.
Somehow, that whole thing reminded me strangely of a [...]
After the very first, wildly successful part of Internationalisation, we are proud to present you the next part:
The Arrival of the German iPhone Guy
Impressive, right? Still, I prefer the canadian guy, sorry. Any chance that Apple introduces Push-iPhone-Guy on me.com anytime soon? Which, incidentally, makes me wonder why they never show a woman in those [...]
Or: This is how the Bob translates.
Are you up for some italian scorching eyes?
Or do you rather prefer japanese geekness?
Or that spanish alternative indie-post-rocker look?
Or french-canadian cuteness?
So much choice, so little time … [found via fscklog].
First, there was that.1 This was accompanied by this commentary by Tim Buckley.
And then there came that.
Put together in this way, Tim’s comments suddenly start to sound painfully chauvinistic …
For those who didn’t follow the story: Lilah earlier revealed to be pregnant with Ethan’s baby. Even though there’s no text in this episode, it is [...]