Nathan Matias has reviewed Tinderbox and gives it an almost perfect score.
Monthly Archive for February, 2004
Guardian Unlimited:
“You’ve got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac river you’ve got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars.”
And: Key findings of the Pentagon.
Reading the key findings I feel the Pentagon has hired some freaks that want to draw a scenario that would keep the defence spending up even if “war on terror” has been diminished.
Another link: Bush Administrations chronology of environmental destruction.
… and what text adventures from the past have in common with todays games. [via Hinterding]
Found a link to “Interactive Fiction Archive” in that article as well.
As Sebastian Fiedler has announced, our joined proposal has been accepted for EdMedia 2004.
Moses A. Boudourides: “The purpose of this paper is to present a brief review of the various streams of constructivism in studies of education, society, science and technology. It is intended to present a number of answers to the question (what really is constructivism?) in the context of various disciplines from the humanities and the sciences (both natural and social). In particular the discussion will focus on four varieties of constructivism: philosophical, cybernetic, educational, and sociological constructivism.” [via Weiterbildungsblog]
One of the seminars I had in mind for quite some time is starting this semester: »Simplicity«. Conceptually it is a sequel to the “Density” seminar that went very well and was insightful for students and me as well. Like “Density” the new seminar is dealing with a particular but general design strategy that seems to be a constant challenge for designers (not only students).
At the first glance there is nothing special to know about “simplicity” as a design strategy. Of course designers need to break complexity and to chop the matter into communicatable, comprehensible and digestable chunks. On the other hand I hear myself (and my collegues) often argue “Keep it simple!” if a student seems to have difficulties to do the chopping at a given stage of a project. Why is it that the process of simplification sometimes makes something elegant and effective and sometimes primitive and boring?
Firefox 0.8 (alias Firebird) is the best Mozilla browser I’ve used so far. The new MacOS X skin is very Safari like and lean. The application loads and renders the pages very quick. It also uses a little bit less RAM than Safari something that pulled me away from Mozilla before.
ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging client for MacOSX (we also have a Windows version in the works), supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as TypePad, MovableType, Nucleus, Blogger, and more. ecto is the successor of the wildly popular Kung-Log, which has been in use by thousands of Mac users and which earned a 4.5 mice in the MacWorld July 2003 issue, a 4.7 rating by users of VersionTracker.com, and a 5.0 rating by users of MacUpdate.com.
“I tried to connect together bits and pieces from my reading and thinking about knowledge work for the paper I’m writing. Comments are welcome.
See also: earlier thinking about this model in Knowledge worker spaces and other posts on knowledge networker.”
Almost a year ago I posted a link to an interview with Eugen Drewermann about the psychology of Bush. Somebody pointed me to an inofficial english translation of some passages. Still worth a read.