My Favorite Story of the Year: Time-Travelers Use Super-Awesome Physics to Sabotage the Large Hadron
I love literature; I’ve pretty much devoted my life to its creation and study; I’ve no regrets. And yet. Sometimes, when perusing the pages of the New York Times, it’s not the stories about writers and their cock-eyed theories that make my heart well with amazement and joy. (Take a look at this utterly homophobic and idiotic screencap of John Wright’s blog [no

Just What the World Needs: Nazi Gnomes
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Evidence of Everything Exploding — If Baudrillard “Made” a “Game”
If Baudrillard made a game, he’d make it then deny its existence. What Jason Nelson does is make a game that explodes all around you as you play it — metaphorically, to be sure, but just in case you missed the point, literally as well. The game is Evidence of Everything Exploding and its author — website here, but be warned, may cause seizures — is a professor of New Media and experimental game artist. I’m using that awkward phrase because I think it best conveys what his games are like: what ALL video games would have been l

On Fun
This is going to be a short post that perhaps, as I tease out the idea, will become a longer post — or heck, maybe an academic article, eventually. Over at Offworld, that spin-off of Boing Boing that concentrats on happenings in the game and video game world, Jim Rossignol has posted about the evolution of games beyond the realm of mere fun. The article itself is certainly worth reading, but I’d like to point your attention to the comments to the post. To the point that Rossignol asserts that “Games don’t necessarily have to be fun to be engaging,”

Invading the NYC Freemason Headquarters!
Today, Liz and I took advantage of Open House New York to inveigle our way into the Grand Hall of the Freemasons in the heart of Chelsea. It took all of our diplomacy, stealth, kung-fu skillz, and bribe money for the month, but we made it in. And now we have the pictures to show you the sordid secrets the Freemasons don’t want you to know! [If you can see images below, yay! If you can't, please follow the link at the top of the page to head to my blog. Also, apologies for blurriness and graininess -- took these pics with my iPhone.] img_0170