triumph of the mod
AU, WAGNER JAMES. 2002. ↑Triumph of the mod: Player-created additions to computer games aren’t a hobby anymore—they’re the lifeblood of the industry. ↑Salon.com. 16 April 2002.
Continue reading →AU, WAGNER JAMES. 2002. ↑Triumph of the mod: Player-created additions to computer games aren’t a hobby anymore—they’re the lifeblood of the industry. ↑Salon.com. 16 April 2002.
Continue reading →The word cyberia, oftentimes used synonymously to cyberspace, might have been coined by writer ↑Douglas Rushkoff, see his book “Cyberia: Life in the trenches of hyperspace” (↵Rushkoff 1994). Alas, the term popped up at least three times more in … Continue reading →
Salvador Dalí—remember, the fellow who coined the term ‘liquid television’, for whatever that means—once put a lobster upon the lap of a naked beauty. Nice contrast, that was. Then he went on and replaced a vintage telephone’s receiver by … Continue reading →
It can strike you everywhere, in just every situation. For instance you just walk along a busy, or not so busy street without paying particular attention to anything around you. Of course you observe what’s going on in the … Continue reading →
Another addition to a seemingly never-ending story—is this the last hope? Read ↑Blade Runner Final Cut Coming in 2007! at ↑cyberpunkreview.com. Thanks for the opportunity to post yet another Blade-Runner screenshot ;-)
Continue reading →Yesterday night, while I was walking the forlorn streets, a lust for a substantial dinner struck me right out of nowhere. Accordingly I directed my steps towards a particular joint, ’cause I knew that they serve quite large steaks … Continue reading →
the social organisation of craftsmen’s innovation in Sudan project by Prof. Dr. ↑Kurt Beck, Chair of Anthropology, University of Bayreuth The glistening Sifinja [meaning “Sandal”, the local name for the modified Bedford TJ], after hundreds of thousands of kilometres … 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 →
… 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 →
A family tree of ↑Quake-based game engines. By Tei, ↑published at Wikipedia. ↑Licence. This is just to illustrate the enormous influence and impact of ↑John Carmack‘s game-engines on the whole lot of computergames as we know them today. The … Continue reading →