July 2008
NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water →
R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 →
Child-porn investigations have doomed one of the last remnants of a smaller, kinder Net.
Can Derrida be "even wrong"? →
The point was that Derrida’s admirers are generally unable to distinguish his pronouncements from their opposites at better than chance level, suggesting that the content is a sophisticated form of white noise.
“How could one prove (…) that a given statement is hopelessly unclear, and...”
– Gerald Cohen
The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire... →
The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes.
“Here is a tear. Weigh it,
Please, Sir, on your scale—
And I will tell...”
– Thomas M. Disch, Tears the Bullet Wept
Defining Dialogue Systems →
Brent Ellison looks at the universe and history of player-NPC dialogue interaction in games, analyzing titles from Mass Effect through Facade to The Sims and beyond.
“I made Lara crawl when she needn’t. I solicited sailors in Shenmue, ran off with...”
– The Gamer’s Confession
The problem of the cutscene →
Do readers want intelligent games criticism? Do... →
