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 September 10th from 23:03 to 17:59:

• Gone Home: A Brilliant Example of How Less Can Be More in Video Games – Leigh Alexander – The Atlantic – Oh, hey, @leighalexander's piece on @GoneHomeGame is up:
• Microsoft’s Concept Videos From 2000 Were Spot-On. So Why Didn’t Ballmer Build Any of It? – Bloomberg – Because it turns out making stuff that works as smoothly as it does in a fake concept video is actually really hard, duh.
• Twitter / aantonop: What is the proper word for … – What is the proper word for fake patriotism that reaches this level of douchebaggery:
• Liveblogging The iPhone 5S Event From My Busted-Ass iPhone 4S | Popular Science –
• ZHdK: Programme – We'll be at the design research conference "The Stuff Between Us: Designing Interactions Beyond the Object" in Zürich