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Seeking proposals for an interactive architecture commission, from architects and media arts practitioners. The commission will open and be exhibited during the UK Architecture 08 festival. INTERArChTIVE is aiming to support an innovative, collaborative p - Commentary: Gamers Get Their Kicks From Dying
Paper about the emotions of gamers as they play. "Gamers don’t like shooting their opponents, but they’re suffused with pleasure when they themselves are shot dead." - Simon Hattenstone on the weak appetite for war movies, especially the ones about Iraq | Features | guardian.co.uk Film
No one wants to know Brian De Palma, Nick Broomfield and Paul Haggis are desperate to tell the truth about what is going on in Iraq. But there seems little appetite for war films right now - We need money not art | aaajiao VS Régine Debatty
me talking about what looks like bioart (of course), miltos manetas (nice!) and boingboing. in chinese - Tokyo Cosplish school offers "cute English" – Yahoo! News UK
"I wanted to create a space for Otaku" Students at the school discuss their favourite comic books and films, and learn slang used in English online chatrooms and mobile phone messages, including popular abbreviations such as "GR8" ("great") and "B4" ("bef - Cornell Mushroom Blog » The Future of Fungal Freshness?
’ ‘Made in Transit’ is a supply chain concept in which the food grows on board a vehicle on the way to the supermarket, shifting the paradigm of packaging from preserving freshness to enabling growth, and shifting ‘best before’ to ‘ready by.