Linky: Treehugging and games and bird droppings
ali_wildgoose and I went to see An Inconvenient Truth for my birthday, and it was better than I expected. I was worried that it would be a boring speech by Gore. Instead it was an interesting speech by Gore with a lot more interesting non-Gore stuff inserted into it. It made its point and, more importantly perhaps, enabled the audience to make its point later when talking about it. Seeing that made the trailer for Who Killed the Electric Car? catch my eye. Sad... like the story behind Roger Rabbit.
Gotta read this. Sounds Scary.
Journey To Forever looks like an interesting project, albeit one with a very badly designed website. If I can figure out whether it's still going on I think I'll follow it.
The Making of GoldenEye 007, an article by one of the designers, warmed my gaming-crazy heart. There are some nuggets in there, though a good bit of it is about how they didn't really design it, and I'm not sure how to work with that. I think the next thing I need to do now is actually make some low-budget games to cut my teeth on what's really involved, so reading about how they were anti-design doesn't help me much.
It sounds like "they" have gotten better at making ethanol from corn. Perhaps even better enough that it would be cost effective, and possibly better enough that they could make it with stuff other than corn. I actually got some stock-market spam about one of the companies mentioned in the article several days before the article. That shook my world... spam is supposed to be inherently wrong or sketchy.
Bird clouds. I saw these in Rome, where there were plazas that were known for having bird clouds. Regular pedestrians would bring umbrellas on sunny days if they had to walk across 'clouded' plazas, for obvious reasons. The Danes call it the "Black Sun", and I'll bet they did so even before Dead Can Dance or Soundgarden.
I'm back on a GTD kick because of the madness of my schedule right now. I really like GTD, but I currently lack two things: a system which is easy to use and encompasses 'contexts' for tasks and a system that I can use without a computer in front of me. For contexts, it's Tinderbox vs. OmniOutliner again.
Kinkless is beautiful but requires OmniOutliner Pro at $80; I own Tinderbox but haven't been impressed with previous GTD implementations. Maybe the new one will be better.
Gotta read this. Sounds Scary.
Journey To Forever looks like an interesting project, albeit one with a very badly designed website. If I can figure out whether it's still going on I think I'll follow it.
The Making of GoldenEye 007, an article by one of the designers, warmed my gaming-crazy heart. There are some nuggets in there, though a good bit of it is about how they didn't really design it, and I'm not sure how to work with that. I think the next thing I need to do now is actually make some low-budget games to cut my teeth on what's really involved, so reading about how they were anti-design doesn't help me much.
It sounds like "they" have gotten better at making ethanol from corn. Perhaps even better enough that it would be cost effective, and possibly better enough that they could make it with stuff other than corn. I actually got some stock-market spam about one of the companies mentioned in the article several days before the article. That shook my world... spam is supposed to be inherently wrong or sketchy.
Bird clouds. I saw these in Rome, where there were plazas that were known for having bird clouds. Regular pedestrians would bring umbrellas on sunny days if they had to walk across 'clouded' plazas, for obvious reasons. The Danes call it the "Black Sun", and I'll bet they did so even before Dead Can Dance or Soundgarden.
I'm back on a GTD kick because of the madness of my schedule right now. I really like GTD, but I currently lack two things: a system which is easy to use and encompasses 'contexts' for tasks and a system that I can use without a computer in front of me. For contexts, it's Tinderbox vs. OmniOutliner again.
Kinkless is beautiful but requires OmniOutliner Pro at $80; I own Tinderbox but haven't been impressed with previous GTD implementations. Maybe the new one will be better.