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For a couple of years an anonymous French artist went around different cities cementing Space Invader pixel mosaics to buildings. I thought these ’space invasions’ had long died off, but this week I discovered a new mosaic on the corner of my street. Either it’s been there all along and I never noticed it or […]
The Virginia Tech massacre gave a certain attorney from Florida yet another opportunity to eject his nonsense into the world. Am I the only one who is sick of the attention he receives?
J.T. has mental issues. You don’t have to be an amazing judge of character to know that. Just by looking at his writing […]
I love reading non-fiction books. Sometimes I’ll blast through one just so I can look at myself in the mirror and exclaim “I… Know… EVERYTHIIIIIING!!!” just like former astronaut Jack Austin did. Then inevitably I find out that my newfound knowledge has affected my life by only a mere fraction of a percentage and […]
Wehkamp is a home shopping catalog in the Netherlands. It’s a great thing for whenever you need new jogging pants, curl presses, bras, etc. but are afraid to leave your house.
They send their catalogs unsolicited so I usually throw them away, but this time I opened it on the first page and saw something beautiful. […]
Yes, yes, I signed up for that thing.
Some of the blurbs are eerily accurate. “Gwarek was absent yesterday… I was smelling something that reminded me of sweat… he better not be playing with a Nintendo Wii…”
Sorry, Xbox 360. I am not console monogamous.
Many game industry terms are still poorly understood. Alex recently blogged about the problems with “fun”. Another problematic term is “casual”.
What’s a casual gamer? Someone who plays easy games? Someone who plays hard games, but infrequently? How about someone who plays casual games in an extremely hardcore fashion — is that still casual?
There are no […]
It can be difficult for me to explain what kind of company I work for. It has a very Dutch name (Woedend! means Furious!) and, until now, it didn’t have an English website.
Woedend! is a creative agency in Amsterdam (where I’m specialized in online games). We’re doing some really cool international projects, hence the non-Dutchy […]
