I just checked out Audition, a dance-based MMO. I’m not sure which Asian country it comes from (I didn’t look too close), but it is, of course, heavily anime-styled. It also brings some clever stuff to the table.
Haibane Renmei
(Visited 11223 times)Over at f13 there’s a discussion going on regarding anime, and I wanted to talk a little bit about a title that I recommend even though several of the folks there don’t seem to be huge fans of it: Haibane Renmei.
The Sunday Poem: The Imaginary Playmate Speaks
(Visited 10629 times)These days when I mope in the corner
and look at him
a GrownUp
a giant with big bad teeth
I remember when the world was made
of invisible putty
shaped by stretching out a hand
and more easily made alive
than dead.
Especially when he mopes
slumped in that chair glaring
at a blank page or at nothing.
I used to try to drag him outside
and talk him into the tights & cape
or make him notice
the waxiness in flower petals
the warts
on a tree’s hairy toe
the greenfingers
of the rug lint
that scratch the walls
or even my dress, I made it myself
out of dandelion mane and mud.
but lately we just sit
on opposite sides of the room I wish
I could be solid for just a bit
and stretch my arms!
Can’t attract too much attention
to myself though
or he’d undo me with his eyes.
He got the monster under the bed that way
and the unicorn and also his wife
New t-shirt: Games Ate The World
(Visited 8650 times)I tossed a new shirt design up on Cafepress. I figured, hey, it’s likely to be the poster for the PARC Forum talk, plus also it was the main cover for the Korean edition of the book. Might as well have it in some other fashion.
Oh, and Alice: I specifically thought of you — there’s women’s styles. 🙂
Edit: Well, there was drama. It got yanked from CafePress on Sunday, with trademark being cited. Today I got the official email confirmation that the images are OK — and people have been buying the shirts, so… go for it.
“The future is in algorithms.”
(Visited 6086 times)I was first told that by Mr. Smarty Pants of the Austin Chronicle (believe it or not, Kristen and I actually worked with Mr. Smarty Pants for a while at Origin).
Over the years, it’s seemed to me that the ways the world is changing are very much driven perhaps not by the algorithm per se, but the increased awareness of how much we are swimming in a sea of mathematics.