Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 21st from 21:36 to 11:20:

• Armour39™ Fitness Monitoring and Tracking System – Buy Now – In case you thought the Nike Fuelband wasn't focussed enough on performance and crushing it.
• Next For Nest: Building Out The Smart Grid, One Home At A Time | Co.Design: business + innovation + design – Nest is being explicit about the network
• 10 | See What Your iPhone And Other Personal Effects Will Look Like “100 Years Later” | Co.Create: Creativity Culture Commerce – Not entirely sure why moss is growing on everything.
• Science | From AAAS – supnah: This is the beginning of some truly amazing new forms of research: http://t.co/IVADKOSuvx
• Follow Me! Global Marketers’ Twitter Use | JIAD –
• The Impact of Game Customization and Control Mechanisms on Recall of Integral and Peripheral Brand Placements in Videogames | JIAD –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 19th from 19:51 to 10:45:

• BBC Three – Dawson Bros. Funtime, Pirate Movie Awards – The Pirate Movie Awards 2012- winner Star Trek II – "most illegally downloaded movie"… It's only a matter of…
• New board games round-up | Life and style | The Observer – AT LAST! Finally, UK mainstream media gets it! AT LAST! How long we have waited… New board games round-up @guardian
• How You Can Help Save Upcoming.org, Posterous, and More – Waxy.org – Archive Team is backing up Upcoming! How you can quickly and easily help the archiving effort:
• The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species by Ken Liu | Lightspeed Magazine –
• In suburban Boston, thanks and jubilation – Crowds march down Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, singing Red Sox anthem "Sweet Caroline": -SS

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 18th from 14:23 to 16:40:

• Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence | Inside Science –
• Heavy Rain cost €16.7 million to make and made Sony “more than €100 million” • News • PlayStation 3 • Eurogamer.net –
• How Augmented-Reality Content Might Actually Work – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic –
• Buddy & Me by Sunbreak Games — Kickstarter – Check out this kickstarter project for Buddy & Me from Sunbreak games. Studio Ghibli fans will love the art style!
• Your Reputation Will Be The Currency Of The Future | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation – xe to start listing exchange rate of Klout / Bitcoin: @FastCoExist Your Reputation Will Be The Currency Of The Future
• 7 Things Libraries Can Do with Google Glass – iLibrarian – What can #libraries do with Google #Glass? A lot: #edtech #edu
• Photo by bethesdasoftworks • Instagram – We're excited to lift the curtain on The Evil Within -the upcoming survival-horror game from legendary…
• Twitter / jriga: Oh hey, I see you’re presenting … – Oh hey, I see you're presenting at #MW2013, how about some system updates? Now a good time?
  #loveWindows

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 17th from 18:12 to 13:03:

• App Developers Conference | November 5-7, 2013 | Los Angeles Convention Center | Los Angeles, California – In great kickoff board meeting for our App Developers Conference () – super-excited! (Nov., LA, colocated w/GDC Next!)
• 25 indie games that should be on your radar | Ars Technica – Zowsers! Such nice things said about @GoneHomeGame by the @arstechnica folks: Get on that radar!
• Untitled (http://i.imgur.com/ZwLtozI.gif) – AKA, "Why The Internet Was Made." RT @SusanArendt: Cat. Dressed like a shark. Riding a roomba. Chasing a baby duck. ”
• Twitter / HilaryHB: Dog cam prototype spotted @ideo … – Dog cam prototype spotted @ideo Palo Alto office. Best advice heard "max (the dog), no visiting people in skirts!"
• How do I share my feelings or what I’m doing in a status update? | Facebook Help Center –
• LA Girl Scouts council working on video game design patch | The Verge – This should cheer you up. LA Girl Scouts council working on video game design patch
• Full Coverage: Investigation Continues As Boston Copes With Marathon Blasts’ Aftermath | WBUR – Video: Bruins fans sing powerful National Anthem at tonight's game in Boston:

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 17th from 12:21 to 17:12:

• Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things – Things fitting perfectly into things:
• Our dear Etsy app is on the Apple App Store homepage for the … on Twitpic – Our dear Etsy app is on the Apple App Store homepage for the week!
• Chat Heads, set free: jailbreak tweak puts Facebook Messenger all over your iPhone | The Verge – That didn't take long. Chat Heads, now on jail broken iPhones.
• Modified DVD drive analyzes blood and performs quick HIV tests for $200 | The Verge – Cool science hack of the week: hacked DVD player can quickly analyze blood for HIV and other diseases:
• What the Gov.uk Site Would Look Like if the Daily Mail Ran It | Gizmodo UK – @RellyAB @garethr @mattb @fatbusinessman @tomcoates @denisewilton What if the Daily Mail made GOV.UK?
• Photo by hitherto • Instagram – Why modern “news” sucks, concise twitter edition (courtesy of @dokas)

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 17th from 09:02 to 10:48:

• And the award goes to boring.com! Government website beats off 100 others to be named world’s best design | Mail Online – “The font used on the site is Gill Sans – the same as that used on Keep Calm And Carry On” – Daily Mail on gov.uk
• Nike Unveils PHOTOiD Powered by Instagram | NiceKicks.com – Nike Unveils PHOTOiD Powered by Instagram
• Hey Reddit, Enough Boston Bombing Vigilantism – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic – Amen. "This is not how civil society works." @alexismadrigal on Reddit's Marathon bombing internet vigilantism:
• russell davies: a unit of delivery – Personally I think GOV.UK will be a great example of 'the product is the service is the marketing'
• How Facebook Did UX Testing For Facebook Home (With Fewer Than 60 People) ? Co.Labs ? code + community – Facebook's UX process for designing Home

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 17th from 06:56 to 08:50:

• Is This The Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever? – Forbes – Really interesting article about Supercell. Canada as a test market before going global! Champagne for failure! 8.5m dau!
• Gamasutra – News – Social games’ decline is holding digital market back – report – Total MAU for social gamers under 200m for the first time, down 10m y/y.
• Kickstarter is not a store, except when it is | The Verge – Not a store, but a way of funding creativity that sometimes has extras.
• Professional Awards – This is getting silly GOV.UK: win an award one day, get nominated for another the next (D&AD writing award)
• Google Alert for the Soul – The New Inquiry – and here is @marginalutility's #TtW13 presentation, "Google Alert for the Soul":
• Ev Williams acquires long-form journalism project Matter | Technology | guardian.co.uk – MediaGuardian >> Ev Williams acquires long-form journalism project Matter

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 16th from 14:15 to 22:58:

• Bad decisions arise from faulty information, not faulty brain circuits – Bad decisions arise from faulty information, not faulty brain circuits:
• Scenario Deck Form – Wanna do some futuring?
• 303 See Other – NYC's long-awaited bike share program begins signing up customers Allows members to use 6K bikes from 330 stations
• Facebook Home “Dinner” – YouTube – @WiedenKennedy W+K PDX New work for Facebook Home "Dinner"
• Murder mystery to take place on TriMet, those who say “That’s so Portland” to be killed | Stories | Portland Pulp – I hear @PortlandAfoot is holding a murder mystery game across TriMet next month. We might be able to get you in…

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 16th from 07:14 to 12:35:

• Bomb Details Emerge in Boston Case – NYTimes.com –
• Twitter / PippaNorris: At the #designsoftheyear award … – At the #designsoftheyear award to celebrate @gdsteam hard work and success
• Second-Screen Apps Unappealing To Most Viewers, Says NPD Group – Second-Screen Apps Unappealing To Most Viewers, Says NPD Group
• From the centre and here to help | Government Digital Service – Big day. Service Design Manual goes live, "browser-based, iterative, owned by many, a strong bias towards action"
• Matthew @ Samsung Electronics – First day at my new job. Head of Strategy, Planning & New Products for Samsung Media Solution team in EMEA.

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 15th from 12:39 to 06:28:

• Untitled (http://boingboing.net/2013/04/16/austin-grossmans-you-brilli.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter) – Austin Grossman's YOU: brilliant novel plumbs the heroic and mystical depths of gaming and simulation
• 18 Things Non-Gamers Will Never Understand About Games – IGN – 18 Things Non-Gamers Will Never Understand About Games IGN
• Twitter / lauraolin: Really, is that what it shows … – Really, is that what it shows
• Kung Fu Monkey: ARCANUM: Clarke’s Law, Harry Potter and ARCANUM –
• Boston Marathon explosions: two dead and 23 injured – live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk – Interesting. Half of first 40 comments on G liveblog about Boston blasts are asking for the comments to be turned off