Author: shawn

cords of color dazzling the brain
chords of cholor frazzling the brane

orchards of portling cargo gods. yes, go the weird chorus, yes. eat me cookies flood the markets and everyone stretches out like taffy.

it’s jane taffy fonda time!

Great Transitions (It’s a PDF file.)

Futures scenarios. A bewildering array of possibilities and, at the same time, not enough.

Henry Jenkins – Games, the New Lively Art

Certainly, video games are an art form. If television is, they certainly are. Art is, first and foremost, craft. (Artwork, hmm.) Once that criteria is accepted, the answer seems to become pretty clear. I think that if you asked people my age and younger if video games were art, you’d come up with a pretty positive consensus. Anyway, it’s a neat article.

the patchwork styles are coming faster and fast.

what happens when the reams of dreams start coming?

turn anything into the primordial symbology, ya.

Designing a game would be fun.

fun tappity tappity!

I don’t have time to read this right now… but it seemed worth linking to.

Is that irresponsible of me, I wonder? My reality tunnel tends to support the idea that things are usually not as bad as they’re made out to be…

I’m going to buy Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.

He’s distributing his book online for free at the above site. I want to reward this guy, monetarily, for being such a good sport. And I want to let his publisher know that they’ve got my support for them to be moving in this direction too. It seems like, in these cases, money speaks louder than words.

International Children’s Digital Library

If only they’d had something like this when I was a kid…………… This is amazing.