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Insignificant Wranglings
Author Archives: insignificantwrangler@gmail.com
Women in Games
MTV’s Multiplayer site is pulblishing a series of interviews this week with women working in professional games. So far I’ve read the first two–X-Play’s Morgan Webb (who at some point in my life went from being the beautiful woman talking … Continue reading
Posted in feminism-is-still-necessary, videogames
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Take a Break from Grading…
…and start evaluating things in five seconds or less. Even comes with instantaneous feedback. Go ahead, you deserve some free time.
Davis > Derrida > Levinas
Today’s reading: John Muckelbauer’s “Rhetoric, Asignification, and the Other: A Response to Diane Davis” and D. Diane Davis’ “The Fifth Risk: A Response to John Muckelbauer’s Response”. Muckelbauer challenges the assumption that any discourse or pedagogy can claim ethical or … Continue reading
Email Standards
File this one under its about time. A grassroots movement for better cross-client compatibility. The major targets? Gmail and Outlook. Here’s to hoping they can have some success. Here’s a link to their test email and the properties they are … Continue reading
Life (or Something Like It)
Finally. I’m back. My laptop’s hard drive died three weeks ago (a couple days after my last post). Stone dead. I had to send if off to the nice people at On Track Data Recovery and pay their extortion reasonable … Continue reading
Stirke Up the Band
I am not quite sure that words can describe quite how awesome this is: Make sure you make it to at least 3:50.
Posted in ip videogames, remix
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Wiimote Already Obsolete?
I’m starting tag a lot of stuff like the following video lately. I’m real interested in the digital sandbox that video games are becoming. More and more your seeing games inviting prosuming, including advanced, yet accessible, level editors. Game companies … Continue reading
Posted in mod, videogames, youtube
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Complexity Theory and Authorship as Plurality
There was a discussion on a listserv today regarding why the individual author has become a myth. I cranked out a short response and figured I’d share. The original poster referred to the Emersonian (right?) “nothing is original” mantra. While … Continue reading
Posted in complexity, derrida, theory
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Romantic Rinse Cycle
The all-consuming job search, coupled with adorable baby daughter, doesn’t leave much time for blogging (or anything else, for that matter). But I did want to take a few minutes to explain how parenthood has alerted my wife and I … Continue reading
Posted in feminism-is-still-necessary, parenthood, sigh
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DMCA needs revision?
Apparently a few people have gotten together and decided that maybe we should be able to do more than simply consume media. Maybe it would be good if we had some kind of freedom to comment on it, mess with … Continue reading
Posted in ip, videogames
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