Being in the midst of ↵“Accelerando” by Charles Stross the above amazing picture immediately strung a chord when I first saw it. The picture shows “the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis (50 … Continue reading →
The noble art of ↵trickjumping is not necessarily a pure means to its own end, but there are ways of substantial application. Of course most of the techniques are downright counterproductive when playing deathmatch, as they would rapidly lead … Continue reading →
The paper I presented at the workshop ↑Understanding media practices at the ↑9th EASA Biennial Conference which took place from September 18th through September 21st 2006 in Bristol, UK, now is online at my own server: ↑“The online nomads … Continue reading →
… then we take Berlin Just noticed that when I walked the streets of Munich this morning. A quick search turned up the picture below showing yet another one ↑sascha spotted in Berlin. Is there an archive of these … Continue reading →
the beginning of … ↑“Genesis: The beginning of …” (2005) [18:11min | .avi | 349MB] ↑by Quan-Time is a hilarious ↑Q3A-trick-stunt movie which teaches you about ↑DeFRaG and a wealth of trickjumping techniques from the basics up. The movie … Continue reading →
The notion of ‘Barlowian cyberspace’ is no news, I know, but nevertheless worthwhile to clarify. ↑Jakub Macek summed it up nicely: The term cyberspace was coined by the American writer ↑William Gibson at the beginning of the 1980s [mind … Continue reading →
↑William Gibson‘s comment on academia’s appropriation of the word “cyberspace”: Just a chance operator in the gasoline crack of history … Assembled word cyberspace from small and readily available components of language. Neologic spasm: the primal act of … Continue reading →
BizoO in S3DF4 Another one, ↑“Lepus” (2005) [18:39min | .ogm | 440MB] by fei of ↑Shaolin Productions—he says: Movie was done in a few days, it’s not a 1 year project like Get Quaked 3 but this was a … Continue reading →
amazement is our natural state of consciousness ↑Shaolin Productions are tremendously active in creating Q3A-tricking movies [mind, this is 2006, and the game was released in 1999], just about a week ago, on 06 September 2006, ↑“Catutthaj Jhana” by … Continue reading →
deathmatch is to tricking as kumite is to kata Just recently ↑Cory Doctorow voiced his fondness of “Tricking iT2” [see below] by ↑Team iT: “Even if you’re not a Quake player (I’m not, particularly, though I live with a … Continue reading →