I recently decided I would spend 24 hours avoiding the use of the word ‘cool.’ Harvey Smith has challenged me to 24 hours of not using any superlative or adjective, but instead to describe things as they are, leaving the subjective and unsubstantive words on the wayside for a short period of time.
I accept his [...]

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7576956.stm.
This is a very, very good idea, and I’m surprised we haven’t seen more of this in other venues similar to Xbox Live. The only issue now is encouraging people to stop playing Halo 3 for just a few minutes come election day and actually go to their polling place.
I’m only being partly facetious. [...]

A great video of a procedural city generator. Seen at serial consign, via DesignNotes.
The cities in the video above, with a bit more art direction, look like they could be right out of a Spiderman game, or Mirror’s Edge. Procedural content, especially in terms of environment design, is an iffy area, but those topographies [...]

Austin looks like a real urban environment from up here, originally uploaded by rmattson.

The lede of an MSNBC story on gay marriage:
It’s one of this year’s polarizing issues. McCain, Obama both oppose same-sex marriages, but how to ban them is the question.
Is it really necessary to ban something because you oppose it? Ban is a rather harsh way of dealing with things. As people mentioned when gay marriage had one of its [...]

Nighttime view from the office., originally uploaded by rmattson.

@jonjones Post slides please. #

Bush proved in 2000 that it’s a great idea to bribe voters with some sort of tax refund. This year, Clinton’s trying the same tack. And she’s blowing her whole wad in West Virginia, where she’s already slated to win.
“Well, I gotta tell you, according to the Department of Energy, it will help you [save] [...]

Saw this over on DesignNotes, a neat watch from Nooka called Zot. At first glance I thought it’d be a binary watch, and though it’s not, it’s still very cool. I really dig the alternative method of representing time.

That’s nice. Thanks for bearing with me. I expect that the site will perform much better now.