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November 4, 2009

Alien Phenomenology

Abstract for my SLSA plenary

The Society for Science Literature and the Arts annual conference is about to start up here in Atlanta. The program is online, and the SLSA folks have updated it with the abstract for my Friday evening plenary. I thought I'd reproduce it here for those of you who are interested ...

July 15, 2009

Pragmatic Speculative Realism

A stake in the ground

Even though we didn't really talk much about philosophy, after visiting Graham Harman in Cairo two weeks ago, I was reenergized to think about philosophy in general and speculative realism in particular. In the short time since, a number of friendly bonfires have flared up around the web, most of ...

Guru Meditation

A medititation game for Atari VCS and iPhone

October 25, 2008

Credit Crisis Pumpkin

From this year's Fiscal Fright jack-o-lantern series

I present the next installment of this year's financially-themed jack-o-lanterns. First we had Mortgage Meltdown. Now I humbly offer Credit Crossbones. This one is a bit more subtle, perhaps, than the last. You get it though, right? ...

October 19, 2008

Mortgage Meltdown Pumpkin

From this year's Fiscal Fright jack-o-lantern series

Jack-o-lanterns are serious business in my house. Yet, I knew it was going to be hard to top last year's excellent Jack McCoy-o-Lantern. A political theme was possible, but it's been done, and I'm hardly the kind to print a template from a website. So, we settled on a different ...

October 10, 2008

Play-Doh Palin

Sculptures from Meaningful Play

Greetings from the the Meaningful Play conference at MSU. This morning, Leigh Anne Cappello from Hasbro spoke about toy design. Hasbro brought packages of Play Doh for every table, and Leigh encouraged us to make things during the talk. So, I made a Play Doh Sarah Palin. It's not nearly ...

September 11, 2008

Videogame Snapshots

How games can be informal and personal. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra

July 20, 2008

The End of Gamers

Things people do with videogames

June 21, 2008

Introducing the Broccodevil

My experience with Make My Own Monster

I received a Make My Own Monster kit for Christmas last year. It's a service offered by the North American Bear Company, which has the distinction of having the worst shopping site I've seen in some time. Anyway, the Make My Own Monster concept is great: kids (of all ages, ...

June 9, 2008

Resisting the Membership Economy

Photography, Flickr, and Me

As regular readers may have noticed, I have an interest in photography. I've started a photography section on this website, where you can view some of the photographs I have taken. Right now I've added galleries for Objects, Places, and People, as well as a photo project I'm slowly working ...