Clay Shirky has a great speech about cognitive surplus. A phrase that refers to the free time we have away from our jobs or studies to do stuff. Over the past 30-50 years, what everyone did with this cognitive surplus is watch TV. Sitcoms were the big universal thing everyone did. [...]
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Can’t wait to get my hands on it. I just saw this ad (video below) - as if i wasn’t excited enough. If you haven’t heard about the game yet, there’s a great article about what went into it in Wired. Article here.
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Below is a great speech by the poet Dana Gioia to the Stanford graduating class of 2007….
Stanford Commencement address by Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (June 17, 2007)
Good morning.
It is a [...]
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I found these two updates today on the glorious world wide web. You know that tubular place known as the Information Superhighway. Anyway…
Here’s a guy who developed his own Halo suite similar to that worn by Master Chief. It cost him around $15k and 2 years of his life, but it’s all [...]
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Unless you’ve been living under a stone you’ve heard of Second Life - the virtual world where real people in real places can make virtual people and virtual places. Real people and companies have been flocking to it over the past few months. Now i read that there’s the first homeless guy in [...]
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Halo is blowing up! I have some news on both the game and the movie.
Arguably the best game (both 1 and 2) in the past 5 years is being made into a movie. Last year Peter Jackson signed on as executive producer for "Halo: The Movie," and the project was tentatively scheduled for summer [...]
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