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I’m curious/trepidatious about this recurrent theme in the icons of successful free-to-play iOS games.

Vi Hart (who you may recall, I think is amazing) originally became known (to me) by her “doodling in math class” series of short films.

I love people making weird instruments out of weird things.

I enjoyed Eurogamer’s cute, affectionate retrospective of Gitaroo Man.

Good.

I am, to the best of my abilities, divesting myself of fossil-fuels, monetarily.

A while ago, Vi Hart (who I’ve mentioned before here as an author of the cool interactive essay Parable of the Polygons) made this fantastic short film about mathematics, meaning and music.

In cyberpunk worldbuilding irl news, here’s something which Jasmine alerted me to.

Hey, just look at this!

I just mentioned Conway’s Game of Life as an example of a Turing-complete system.

Conway’s Game of Life is a well-known cellular automaton in which, every tick, the state of each of the cells on a giant grid is determined only by the states of its immediate neighbours in the previous tick.

Near London?

A commenter on an old post recently asked if I’d share my copies of Ed Brayton’s old podcasts.

It’s been a pretty horrifying couple of weeks on Twitter, hasn’t it?

Adobe Dreamweaver uses the Spry CollapsiblePanel plugin to create boxes that expand and collapse when a heading is clicked.

Robert Yang (who I’ve mentioned here before) made such a good let’s play of the first room and corridor of Half-Life.

I was trying to make a bunch of elements change position as an audio file played, using a snippet something like: $(audiohtml).bind("timeupdate", onAudioUpdate); $(audiohtml).bind("play", onAudioUpdate); $(audiohtml).bind("pause", onAudioUpdate); function

So the GCHQ and the NSA are apparently teaming up to do a whole lot of extremely legal warrantless mass surveillance.

Today I read two letters written by companies which impressed me.

In Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple removed the Email link to this page option in Safari, replacing it with Share > Email this page, which places the entire contents of the page into the email, images and all.

Oh this?

In the past few years there have been released a handful of indie games which share a kind of common form and aesthetic, one that strikes a chord with me.

Clint Hocking’s talks are always interesting, but this is a particularly fascinating one from the GDC 2011.

I’m a local organiser for the Workshop on Algebra, Coalgebra and Topology (part of the Wessex Theory Seminar) which will be held at the University of Bath on March 1st 2013.

To my friends who have sleeve tattoos, gauged ears or drawn-on moustaches, please don’t take this seriously <3

Sources: here and here.

This makes me pretty happy.

This has been plaguing me for a while since I updated to Mac OS 10.8.

Since Braid, 2D indie puzzle platformers have had somewhat of a resurgence (to put it mildly).

What with the way the world is at the moment, I’ve been thinking a lot about social justice.

I’ve recently been pursuing the possibility of voting in the upcoming US presidential election, since I am a US citizen.

This is kinda old, I think, but it’s pretty great.

Time for another podcast recommendation!

I want to describe an interesting experience I had recently.

Despite the weird title, this is a pretty interesting show from the BBC, presented by Lauren Beukes.

Read this old, unsurprising report in New Scientist.

Here’s what I’m doing this week: the 28th annual Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics conference.

Tea is more complicated than I thought...

I saw this letter on Twitter this morning: The annual Sunday Times Rich List yields four very important conclusions for the governance of Britain (Report, Weekend, 28 April).

Creeeeepy!

GSC Game World, the recently closed-then-reformed Ukrainian development team behind the first-class Stalker series, has announced that they won’t be continuing development on Stalker 2.

Wait, what?

I was delighted yesterday to discover that Ed Brayton, who used to host one of my all-time favourite political podcasts, Declaring Independence Radio, has recently started hosting a new show: Culture Wars Radio.

Here’s what happened when me and a few friends went to London to show our opposition to the atrocious Health and Social Care Bill 2011.

Everyone knows the shocking scale of the Tory-led coalition government’s proposed changes to the NHS and degree to which they disregard public and expert concerns.