The Art of Decision-Making | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-of-decision-making
Band name of the day: the awful swish
The uncanny familiar: can we ever really know a cat? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-uncanny-familiar-can-we-ever-really-know-a-cat
Why a market model is destroying the safeguards of the professions | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-a-market-model-is-destroying-the-safeguards-of-the-professions
Band name of the day: fish repairs
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of cold takes by people who think they’re hot. Like, long-form explanations of how “you aren’t required to agree with film criticism” and “reading should be a pleasurable, low-pressure activity”. Am I just disconnected?
Visualising Networks of Electronic Literature: Dissertations and the Creative Works They Cite http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/visualising-networks-of-electronic-literature-dissertations-and-the-creative-works-they-cite/
Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Electronic Texts Are Made Of http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/materiality-and-matter-and-stuff-what-electronic-texts-are-made-of/
Telling the China Story: The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction | FactorDaily https://factordaily.com/china-science-fiction/
SCROLL / NETWORK / HACK: A Poetics of ASCII Literature (1983-1989) : Joel Katelnikoff : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/Katelnikoff_Joel_Fall-202013
Band name of the day: electric gremlin
Bad idea of the day: Evangelion fanfiction in the form of Kaji’s hand-annotated copy of a Fire in the Valley style popular history of the development of Tokyo-3, casting Gendo as an Elon Musk type figure.
At long last, it’s done! Manna for our Malices is available on a pay-what-you-want basis until early February (to coincide with the planned Steam launch): https://enkiv2.itch.io/manna-for-our-malices
I’m finishing development on Manna for our Malices now, streaming on http://twitch.tv/enkiv2
I’m currently streaming the last push on developing Manna for our Malices, the game I’ve been working on for 1.5 years: https://www.twitch.tv/enkiv2
Ever notice how the opening theme to Space Battleship Yamato has the same plot as The Final Countdown.
Cutie Honey opening (1973) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCX77Je16fk
Crafted Logic | Irene PoschIrene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/crafted-logic/
LET THE CORPSES TAN is a Dizzying Bit of Sun-Baked Surrealism (Review) | Nerdist https://nerdist.com/let-the-corpses-tan-is-a-dizzying-bit-of-sun-baked-surrealism-review/
The History of Italian Thrillers’ Ridiculously Twisted Plots | Nerdist https://nerdist.com/giallo-italian-thrillers-ridiculously-twisted-plots/
Tooling (in progress) | Irene PoschIrene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/tooling/
Giallo Is the Horror Subgenre You Need to Explore | Nerdist https://nerdist.com/giallo-horror-subgenre-need-to-explore/
The Embroidered Computer | Irene PoschIrene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/the-embroidered-computer/
QOTD: “No notation without denotation”
Controlled natural language - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language
Band name of the day: swegdropa
Old English Computer Glossary http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ctb/wordhord.html
josef: “biggest problem with computers is they’re still d…” - Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@jk/593197
Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕: “TIL: You can run a crude-and-simple Internet Arc…” - mastodon.cloud https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/101391501109425841
Rain 🚱: “#rust iterators are sooo much nicer to write than…” - Cybrespace https://cybre.space/@grainloom/101379206180624438
Modernist Microfiche Minotaur : “‘User agent’ is a great idea that has been weirdl…” - Eldritch Café https://eldritch.cafe/@/101360959314313478
Band name of the day: endless expansion of wants
Social networks, the old way - enpo.no https://enpo.no/2019/2019-01-10-social-networks-the-old-way.html
Giles Bowkett: How Vim Shaped My Writing http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-vim-shaped-my-writing.html
Band name of the day: the wonderful game of vomit
Band name of the day: wondersnake
Since it’s friday, if I have the energy, after work I’ll stream my final push on finishing implementing MfoM. Y’know, in case anybody wants to watch me write ‘code’ that’s actually mostly dialogue.
Band name of the day: meat scientists
The best anime of 2018 have something in common: they take something already done, & do it confidently, with craft, and in a more laid-back & less frenetic way.
At the risk of opening 20 year old wounds, the academic flamewar this article is part of is fascinating & educational, & I wish I understood it better: http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cybertext-theory-what-an-english-professor-should-know-before-trying/
A Bestiary of Player Agency | These Heterogenous Tasks https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/a-bestiary-of-player-agency/
Erik Kwakkel • Six books, one binding http://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com/post/74300240443/six-books-one-binding-heres-something-special
The good news about elderly people sharing so much fake news - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/10/18176162/fake-news-old-people-nyu-study-silver-lining
automate capitalists out of a job
Bad idea of the day: A shuffle-novel in the form of an oracle deck, with strange or absurd predictions & the premise that it is describing the life of the parallel version of the reader who lives in the world described by the deck.
Shuffle Literature and the Hand of Fate http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/shuffle-literature-and-the-hand-of-fate/
Why Can’t We Tip Amazon Warehouse Workers? http://www.miraclejones.com/essays/why-cant-we-tip-amazon-warehouse-workers.html
Not Exactly Mailbag: Worldbuilding from a Mechanic | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/03/13/not-exactly-mailbag-worldbuilding-from-a-mechanic/