Clarifying Casual Powers in Maps
I often find myself explaining my research project (as many academics, and PhDs especially, do) and when doing so, Google Maps comes
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On meta narratives in games
I’ve been playing again some Endless Space (ES) recently, a new take on the classic 4X genre (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate)
The Different Gozo
Sam Hind, posted his own account from our shared Gozo experience. This is a really great piece and it compliments my own
Post Gozo Aftermath
This is an initial post to solidify some thoughts on the experience (experiment?) with mobile digital playful navigation, which we called the
On the Perils of Value-Free Interfaces
Providence and serendipity are good friends to the sporadic academic reader. Three texts that I read today have manifested an interesting intertextuality
NowForce – an emeregency map-based app
What’s interesting about NowForce is how commercial the website is, compared to it’s humble origins. I ran accross it after reading about
AIS, Satellites and the Problems of Finding Things at Sea
Unlike the misplaced science fiction notion that space is an ocean, the two spheres are quite separate. Just how separate occurred to
UK impressions
Last month I took my longest to date trip to the UK, discarding the family vacation we had in London around 2002.
The Sempahore Line brings visions of futuristic mobilities a’ la BBC and juxtaposes them with recent updates on LA auto-traffic system. The
How I gamified dish-washing without knowing.
Dishes. Soap. Water. They go together like a misplaced metaphor next to poor self-expression capabilities. And yet there always was something in