Google Scholar has opened it’s citations tool to all users. Here’s my profile.
Fixed-turret tower defense
Fixed-cannon demolition
Match-three puzzler
Cave flight
One-button platformer
Vertical bounce platformer
Vertical one-button two-surface platformer
Asynchronous board game
Fast-reflex business management
Fast-reflex object touching
Town sim
Color-based shoot-em-up
Traffic direction
Any I’ve forgotten?
Clearly "Sassy Fairy Shimmer" from Claire's Boutique.
Shark tooth??
Raptor? Looks like a Tercel.
Humorous site providing screencaps and gifs of classic dialogue from Zelda games.
Tech pundits eagerly await the arrival of Mountain View’s latest digital delicacy onto our Android devices, and signs indicate that we might get a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich next month. The firmware is intended to integrate Android for handsets (2.3.4 and below) and design elements from Android 3.0 for tablets. When Google unveiled the project, they stated that goal, but didn’t show as much as a screenshot of the new OS.
But we’ve already seen Ice Cream Sandwich, in a way. Google has shown it to us, both through the recently updated version of the Android Market for phones, and through its Google Reader Android application.
Let’s take a look.
I’m working on a new blog, fab-ulo.us. Sorry for the gross, hacky URL, but it’s not arbitrary! It’s a blog about fabrication technologies, techniques, and trends. I was planning on making it exclusively about 3d printing, but i’ve found some really exciting manual fabrication news items, and decided to broaden the scope of the project. Hopefully this can be a way for people to learn to build things themselves, and the interface between the digital and the analog becomes more and more blurred. Swing by and let me know what you think in the comments.
Mameshiba. I just discovered this Japanese phenomenon. A little bean dog appears and gives unsolicited trivia, usually spoiling the bean’s friend’s lunch. There are twenty of these videos. They’re all adorable. Here’s a choice selection.
These photos are causing all kinds of monkey business. Techdirt, the target of a C&D for copyright infringement, has an ongoing series about who owns the copyright in these images.
.gif by Ignacio Torres. Part of his series Stellar. (thanks for the find, Shivian!)
A note by John Lennon, explaining the Beatles’ performance of traditionally Black standards early in their career. The entire note is posted at TechDirt, and it’s definitely worth a read.
Hold! You crafty ones, strangers to work, and pilferers of other men’s brains. Think not rashly to lay your thievish hands upon my works. Beware! Know you not that I have a grant from the most glorious Emperor Maximillian, that not one throughout the imperial dominion shall be allowed to print or sell fictitious imitations of these engravings? Listen! And bear in mind that if you do so, through spite or through covetousness, not only will your goods be confiscated, but your bodies also placed in mortal danger.
-Albrecht Dürer
Makes the INTERPOL warning on DVDs look absolutely toothless. Found in Patry on Copyright.
Never going to happen.
The Nintendo faithful are eagerly anticipating that company’s next home console, internally nicknamed “Project Café.” As anyone who even remotely follows the game press knows, Nintendo fan speculation rivals– maybe surpasses– Apple fan speculation. Nintendo is great at leaking just enough information to leave you hooked, and then draws a product release out over a period of two years. They’ll give a glimpse of the new console next Monday, but gaming and tech journalists have already posted possible designs for the new console’s controller.
And I’d bet big cash that the actual controller will not resemble any of these. Read More
Dumpster, Treasure Island, corner of Broadway and Cornelia.
I found this cat .gif for you. It took a while to select the perfect one.
2011 appears to be the Year of the .gif. What’s that, you say? 1996 was the year of the .gif? Well, this is one trend I’m thrilled to welcome back. Here are 2 .gif-centric social sharing sites that I absolutely love.
3fram.es is a site for sharing stop-motion webcam gifs. The “social” features are very barebones (you can favorite gifs, tag them, and each user’s gifs are available on that user’s profile page), but I still find it to be a very cool idea. It’s always fun to see someone make a series of gifs, fleshing out ideas that they had before. It’s really exciting that the users are able to tell such interesting stories in the span of a few frames. There is a 3fram.es iOS app, and I hope than an Android one is close behind.
I purchased a Nintendo 3DS, and one of the most exciting and fun features of the device is the ability to capture and view 3d pictures. Since nobody else has a 3ds, it was very hard to share them. Startup 3dPorch is a very simply, but powerful platform for sharing 3d photography in a 2d space. The service converts .mpo files into “wobble .gifs,” cyan/red anaglyphs, and stereoscopic jpegs. You don’t need any special glasses to appreciate the wobble gifs, and these are great for sharing with friends. You can also download .mpos of any image on the site.
I’m very excited to see what the users of these sites can accomplish, as they bring their ideas into the fourth and third dimensions, respectively.
This is some really excellent work. Kudos to these dudes.
