I like Strategy games. I get quite addicted quite easily and so I tend to keep wellll away form them. I recently got the itch again, like an ex-smoker and started to look into playing the old ones on my mac via VMWare.
The first thing I found was Master of Orion II, which I played for a night and realised that its actually quite a mundane game, but never the less you find yourself there for hours hitting the “Next turn” button to see if anything you have planned to build has finished, and how much cash you have. Its all virtual and the moment you step away your over it but once your in, your hooked.
I was thinking that this type of addiction would be very handy if you could apply it to more productive tasks like learning. So I’m trying to figure out what the key things are that make strategy games addictive. Continue reading ‘Strategy learning game’
I found this amongst the 241 the comments on mininova for a movie torrent by the now infamous ‘aXXo’ who is known for releasing “quality” Hollywood movie rips. He seems to some how produce these while the movie is still in cinemas.
Our Ripper, who art on mininova,
aXXo be thy name.
Thy torrents come.
Seeding will be done,
Here as it was on suprnova.
Give us this day our latest rips.
And forgive us our leeching,
As we forgive those that leech from us.
And lead us not on to private trackers;
But deliver us from the MPAA:
For thine is the ripping, the seeding, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
aXXo seems to have become the Robin Hood of the movie torrent scene and has many fans and rivals. By putting his name on the end of his releases it makes them easy to find but it is also in the spirit of the graffiti tagger who makes themselves notorious in a certain area. Living in Kreuzberg Berlin I know the tags ‘1UP’, ‘Just’ and ‘THC’ well as they are on every street. This gives you a feeling of place I find in a large city.
This is a great little video that explains what RSS is about. I’m always looking for these sorts of things to help people with the “tricky” stuff about the web.
(by the way you can subscribe to this site if you like :)
I just got back from MAGISTRALE Kulturnacht’s Medialounge in which a good friend of mine has some photos on exhibit. There was a series of laptop audio performances by various artists which climaxed with a live performance of the so called Laptoporchester Berlin. Seven guys on laptops nodding their heads.They opened with a couple of pieces that were lead by a guy on a cool seven string electric guitar which had a body that was just snap on bars in the shape of a traditional guitar (see picture). They then ended with a cover of Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ which I’d only recently discovered being a big fan of Steve Riech. Continue reading ‘Laptoporchestra Berlin and the nature of live performance’
The name AJaX comes from one article written in January of 2005which was the first to use the acronym AJaX. In it is mentioned the technology (i..e the one function ‘XMLHttpRequest’) had been around for some time and is probably the only significant contribution that Microsoft has made to the internet’s development to date. Continue reading ‘The significance of AJaX’
I asked Sebastian about tomato recipes as I came home from the market last Friday with 5kg of cherry tomatos (only 2.50 euros!). This is what he sent me:
This pics of the salad are from one that I made last night. It’s dead easy and rocks. Continue reading ‘Tomatoes Salid’
There is a new episode of Urban Uncle out with a feature on Berlins own underground Hip-Hop MC Face Error. If your into Hip-Hop you should defiantly check it out.
A wet sky ends another flushed day
Letting go of the days hot frustrations
Releasing the struggle that started at dawn
So one can finally say “I’m done.”
The race is over. Nobody won.
The cool breeze retires ambition
Let the shoulders sag and, put on loose shoes,
Smile in the company of others
Reflecting at the slow replay of the days events
Forever to be frozen in memory
