My new Job at the New York University Game Center
From August 1st, I will be moving to a position as a Visiting Professor at the brand new New York University Game Center. I am looking forward to teaching, researching, and helping build the new...
View ArticleNoah Wardrip-Fruin speaks at NYU on September 17
The NYU Game Center in combination with The Games for Learning Institute presents Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Date: Thursday, September 17th from 6:00PM to 8:00PM Place: 721 Broadway, room 006, lower level...
View ArticlePeter Bøgh Andersen, 1945-2010
Mark Bernstein brings the news that Peter Bøgh Andersen died this week. Peter played an important role on my journey through academia by serving on my PhD committee in 2004. He was a semiotician in the...
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Tablets are Dead (history tells us so)
Behold the cover of the latest issue of Wired: Behold the article “How the Tablet Will Change the World“. Compare to another Wired prediction, from 1997. The browser is dead and will be replaced by...
View ArticleBlog Housekeeping
Recent housekeeping on the blog: New humanly readable default URLs (post title rather than number), new layout (after 5 years with the old one!), new cache system for faster loading. Let me know if you...
View ArticleIs Tetris copyrightable? [In the US]
[Update: EA is suing Zynga for copying The Sims Social in The Ville.] Here’s a recent court case on a question that keeps popping up: can a video game be copyrighted? (In the US that is.) THE TETRIS...
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Introducing the Not Helvetica Collection
We love Helvetica! We really do! But do you ever feel uneasy over its excessively clean lines? Suspicious of the self-conscious foot of the upper case R? Disturbed by the smug purists who think they...
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The Deletionist: Erasure Poetry from any Web Page
Announcing The Deletionist, a project by Amaranth Borsuk, Nick Montfort and myself. This is a bookmarklet (added to the bookmark bar in one’s browser) that automatically creates erasure poetry from...
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The Impossibility of the Internet of Things
XKCD is right: The Internet of Things is not going to work, as long as there is no guarantee of security updates, which there won’t be. (I will start posting more.)
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Fractal time: Announcing Lyapunovia’21
Fractal time: Here’s Lyapunovia’21, a remake of my 1992-93 (yes) Amiga program of the same name. A “mindbogglingly colorful” realtime & animated fractal; a small side project almost entirely...
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