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A game about isolation
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Read More →: A game about isolationBefore the story here is a link to the very very rough pre-pre-pre-alpha game. I have tried not to add any instructions as I hoped that it could be tutorial through discovery. I will add some to the next build. WASD ? ? ? ? — move R — reset level The goal only works…
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Avoiding Modification and Deletion Methods
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Read More →: Avoiding Modification and Deletion MethodsDeletion and modification seem to confuse students. Additive methods appear easier in my experience. I wish to present a few tweaks I have used to get my students past sticking points. In my practice these tweaks have been extremely potent. I would like to hear about any other special fixes people have found for the…
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One a Day – 1
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Read More →: One a Day – 1Articles I’ve read in the past week. One for every day. Four Futures There are therefore four logical combinations of the two oppositions, resource abundance vs. scarcity and egalitarianism vs. hierarchy. To put things in somewhat vulgar-Marxist terms, the first axis dictates the economic base of the post-capitalist future, while the second pertains to the…
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The Future We Deserve – Bootleg Oil
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Read More →: The Future We Deserve – Bootleg OilThe Future We Deserve a collaborative book project to create a vision of the future is finished and launched as of yesterday. I cannot describe how good the book is to read. Perhaps it has been best expressed by Vinay in the introduction. It is all available to read online, You can download the PDF or…
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Jay on Fascism in the UK
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Read More →: Jay on Fascism in the UKMy friend Jay @thejaymo made a wonderful series of tweets a few days ago taking a list titled The 12 Warning signs of Fascism and attaching each to a picture, article or news story in the UK. Read the storify The 12 warning signs of fascism seem to have evolved from an article written by Dr.…
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The Needs of Others
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Read More →: The Needs of OthersI gave a talk at the open source hardware user group recently titled “The Needs of Others”. It was half outlining what is known about the effective delivery of technology aimed alleviating technology and half talking about how faithful reproduction of physical objects at any reasonable scale is dependent good documentation and then exploring the challenges all…
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My time
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Read More →: My timeIt’s been a good long while since my last post. In truth I am not a blogger by habit. I do things, or I think about doing things. Writing about the things I am doing or thinking about is a forced action for me. Ironic in light of the documentation bent I am pursuing. I…
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We Are The Elite
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Read More →: We Are The EliteTo the “99%”, Yesterday I tweeted this “Top 1% of earners globally is anyone with an annual income of £22000 #perspective#occupyearth #occupyeverywhere http://t.co/YXh6sVMs” I received this response “@jumplogic Good perspective. We are the 99.99%. Stop international profiteering and private pillage of public good worldwide. #OccupyEarth” I agree with the second half, however I have a…
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Quick Update
Read More →: Quick UpdateA quick update over what has been happening with the documentation project and why I’ve been quiet. I’ve added some of my work to http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Plywood . Images to be added as I make ones I am happy with. I’ve started migrating the work onto opensource platforms. I’m learning how to use Scribus and Inkscape. Not sure if…
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Filler
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Read More →: FillerI’ve got an exciting new project that I hope to launch within a week so stay tuned. Still need to name it. Self indulgent teaser here. In other news: