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Links for July 26th 2008
Interesting links for July 25th 2008 through July 26th 2008:
- Last Lecture Professor Randy Pausch, 47, Dies [NYTimes Blog] – The sad loss of a truly inspirational educator. If you’ve not listened to Pausch’s Last Lecture, go watch it now.
- GetUp! for what? Issues Driven Democracy in a Transforming Public Sphere By Henk Huijser & Janine Little [Transformations, 16, 2008] – Article exploring the impact of Getup! on Australian politics and democracy, concluding that GetUp! is an exemplar of ‘issues-based’ democracy, where political action is organised on around issues, not via a stable political group.
- The Guts Of Dr Horrible [Warren Ellis] – Warren Ellis sings songs or praise for Joss Whedon’s business model with Dr Horrible. Also: “And if you can get an evil horse in there, that’d be good, too.”
Links for July 23rd 2008
Interesting links for July 23rd 2008:
- WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars [Wired Magazine 16.08] – To celebrate it’s twenty-fifth anniversary, Wired has a good overview of the place of WarGames in videogame and geek history.
- What’s In It For Doogie Howser? [Jeffrey McManus] – McManus takes an educated stab at the economics of Joss Whedon’s Dr Horrible web experiment. (Joss himself notes that these figures aren’t that far off.)
- Xbox 360 users to build and sell own games [The Age] – It’ll be interesting to see how well the coming “Xbox Live Community Games” take off and, most importantly, what terms and conditions Microsoft force game creators to accept in order to sell their work to other Xboxers.
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