Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog by Dan Hon

links for 2007-12-11

• Stephen Fry
  Oh God, he’s still going. It’s just embarrassing. How can someone be so talented?
  (tags: stephenfry blog jealous)
• equatorial physics | Ask MetaFilter
  “Are there any easily demonstrable physical effects to being on the equator?”
  (tags: equator equatorial physics demo)
• jwz - 2007 movies: FAIL.
  jwz’s 2007 movie reviews
  (tags: movies review jwz 2007 endofyear)
• Spooky Hallowen Of Doom: Amigara
  The Amigara Fault - really quite creepy manga.
  (tags: manga japanese free comic amigarafault horror dark hole english)
• Lookspring
  Margaret Robinson’s blog (ex-editor of Edge). Great meeting with her yesterday and lots of geeking out over games. Really quite excited about our Channel 4 project now.
  (tags: margaretrobinson blog edge gaming women channel4 editor consultancy gamedesign)
• Google Chart API Fun with Cocoa and F-Script « Fun Script
  Hm. Yum.
  (tags: macosx fscript scriptingbridge cocoa api google charting)
• GameSetWatch - Should We Enter The Era Of The Game Noir?
  Touching on some of the ideas we talked about at work yesterday: games moving away from the concept of you being special, and extraordinary things happening to you, to normal, hyper-local relevant and personal things happening to you.
  (tags: gamenoir gamedesign gamesetwatch simoncarless)
• FigurePrints
  via Alice and Margaret Robinson, lots of excited talking about 3d printing, WoW and story in games yesterday. 3D prints for $100 of your WoW character. Looks to be hooked up with Blizzard for partner status.
  (tags: wow 3dprinting rapidprototyping figureprints mmorpg via:crystaltips)
• Media: Asus Eee Rocks Ubuntu in 3D
  OK, *now* I want an Eee.
  (tags: ubuntu asus eee compizfusion desktop 3d)
• GameSetWatch - Editorial: Gamevil’s Social Cellphone Game Future
  Korea is the future, again.
  (tags: socialnetworking socialsoftware socialgaming social gamedesign korea mobile cellphone)