PSA: blogging has moved back to Leapfroglog . All tumblr posts have been copied over as well.
“Too much of our impression of the world comes from a misleading formula of journalistic narration. Reporters give lavish coverage to gun bursts, explosions, and viral videos, oblivious to how ...
Heading back from Big Brother Awards. Hans and his team at Bits of Freedom put on a good show. A few things of note: The lady from the primary education council using “game” as a metaphor to ...
I was standing on the shoulders of giants for this one. Here’s a (probably incomplete) list of sources I referenced throughout the talk. Eric Zimmerman. Manifesto: The 21st Century Will Be Defi...
“Comedians kill themselves. Talk to 100 comedians this week, everybody knows somebody who killed themselves. I mean, we always say ignorance is bliss. Well, if so, what’s the opposite? Some f...
“Anonymous Scientology 1 by David Shankbone ” by David Shankbone - David Shankbone . Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons . > Political play is a mode of thinking criticall...
“I think the greatest problem is the mentality that accompanies drone strikes,” Philip Alston, an N.Y.U. law professor who investigated drone attacks for the U.N. between 2004 and 2010, told ...
> I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of > writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see > through our fear-stricken ...
> If you provide novice problem-solvers with a problem, they’ll > attempt to solve it using superficial strategies, comparing it to > routine problems that they already�...
> Asked if it was a playful moment of invention, Rubin responds > sternly, almost Cosellianly, “It wasn’t playful. I hate play. It > was just a process. You have s...
> These two styles also establish together something like limits of > what I feel is an important polarity, as regards videogames – from > ‘mechanics’ to ‘organic...
> “I was reading David Chang’s Momofuku cookbook, and there’s a > passage in there where he points out that there’s this convention > amongst top-flight chefs,”�...
I’ve been tracking the emergence of a “play ethic” in the internet of things / connected products field for a while because most of the projects are so damn utilitarian. This new series of ...
> He credited his friend and fellow artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan with > showing him that WikiLeaks and the NSA actually have a very similar > view of the world. “They�...
> we might get to a space where nobody really cares if a “real” > object really “exists” at all; a spime can probably be made to > exist if enough energy is�...
“We didn’t do the things that tech companies were supposed to do. We didn’t move fast and break things. We didn’t disrupt and abandon. We didn’t do moon shots. We created a future by si...
> I’ve spent a lot of time watching dogs playing and it’s been a > source of fascination and happiness for years. So the subject matter > felt really natural to m...
> There’s a lesson here. The greatest thing I learned from my > formalist training in painting was actually not about painting. It > was about the nature of knowledge...
> Superstition, myth, and religion offer rationales that fill in the > empty spaces between performance and results. Their sorcery acts as > a mortar that plugs the gaps...
> “Playing a song changes your understanding of it. Playing music > changes how you listen to it. Doing changes knowing.” Great piece on how the internet is facilitating a...