Video Game Questions Your Ethical Standards While Deleting Files from Your Computer

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Zach Gage says that he created the free video game Lose/Lose to make people question their ethical assumptions. The game is similar to Space Invaders, but every time you kill an alien, the game deletes a randomly-selected file from your hard drive:

Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted. Although touching aliens will cause the player to lose the game, and killing aliens awards points, the aliens will never actually fire at the player. This calls into question the player’s mission, which is never explicitly stated, only hinted at through classic game mechanics. Is the player supposed to be an aggressor? Or merely an observer, traversing through a dangerous land? Why do we assume that because we are given a weapon an awarded for using it, that doing so is right?

Clicking on the link below will not download the game onto your computer and begin deleting your files. But it will give you the option to do so.

Link via Geekologie

1987 Dating Video

This completely hilarious montage of circa 1987 video dater men was featured on Boing Boingyesterday, and as one commenter mentioned, the guy at 3:34 was a dead ringer for Seth Green.  Upon second viewing, I noticed that the guy at 2:27 looks and sounds like Seth Rogen.

That got me thinking.  Is the Seth Green guy really Seth Green, filmed recently?  Slipped into a montage of real 87 vid-daters?  And if that is Seth Rogen, is it also current footage with makeup, because if it was really him he’d be about 5 years old in 1987. It seems odd that two Seths appear in one seemingly random new (old) funny video.

Anyway, aside from that, there’s lots of funny to be found in this new viral gem.  Hard to pick a favorite, but the Goddess guy/ Bon Jovi afficionado is impressive.

Dating Montage 

New kind of music vid

I Fell in Love at the Apple Store (YouTube Link)

“Apple Store Love Song” is a song by Fatty Spins about meeting a girl/Apple product at a brand store. Although one might think that it was green-screened, it was actually shot at the Apple Store in New York City:

This is an original Fatty Spins song, and yes I actually went to the Apple Store on 5th Ave in NYC and filmed it on one of their demo laptops. If you’re wondering why the other people in the store hardly turned around, then you’ve obviously never been to New York. And yes, there does appear to be a homeless giant standing behind me. LOL.

Adam Frucci of Gizmodo notes that another vlogger used the same demonstration products to shoot a music video without spending any money. Perhaps this is an emerging trend.

Musician’s Website (NSFWish content) via Gizmodo

“I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.” Yayoi Kusama

you may not normally visit the wellington city gallery but you really should check out this show (which marks the reopening after a year of rennovation) by Yayoi Kusama. Among other things is this room - you enter through the door and then get sealed in by an attendant. Inside, it's dark, the walls and ceiling are mirrors, the floor is a pool of water and you are standing on a narrow gangplank. All around you are thousands of little LEDs suspended in the space. Very hard to describe how fantastic this experience is - go see it for yourself..

Beneath the Neon

Hundreds of couples are living underneath the US gambling mecca Las Vegas and living off the scraps left behind by its patrons. It’s claimed that up to 700 people call the network of tunnels beneath the casinos home.

They make their living by scavenging, and working their way down the strip of casinos. Steven moved into the tunnels two years ago after he lost his hotel front-desk job due to a heroin problem he claims he kicked in January. “The most I’ve ever found is 997 dollars on one machine. I’ve found about $500 a few times. But normally $20 or so is enough to call it a night.

“We buy food and supplies like shampoo and soap. Last night I went and watched the new Quentin Tarantino movie Inglourious Basterds up at the Palms Hotel.”

Pete Sampson wrote the article for The Sun: Link

Woofer: The Anti-Twitter

For those of us who simply don’t get Twitter or are tired of the Web’s fascination with the 140-character microblogging platform, here’s the anti-Twitter. Introducing macroblogging wonder Woofer, where each post has a minimum of 1,400 characters!

(And yes, the entire thing is a spoof/homage of Twitter, made by Join the Company)

Link 

Do Schools Kill Creativity??

Thought you guys would be interested in this. Well worth the 20mins out of your day.

Anyway Enjoy.

Miss you!

Anita :-)

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Unusual way to launching the new Nokia N900

PUSH N900
September 23rd, 2009
PUSH N900 is a competion organised by Nokia to promote it’s new N900 smartphone. Everyone is invited to come up with projects how you could hack or mod the N900 and its open-source Maemo operating system. You have to submit your idea by October 11th, a jury will then decide who will get a N900, funding and support to make them real.
Hyper and Tinker it! were asked to develop some sample projects. They decided to use 4 objects from the 80’s: the Viewmaster, the Rolodex, an FM Radio and the Speak & Spell.

Phone FM

You can send a text message to your phone and it will read the artist’s name and send that information to last.fm. MP3’s will start streaming and the cover art will appear on the screen. The N900 has a build-in FM transmitter, the signal will be picked up by any radio nearby when it’s set to the right station.

Leave a Message

An Arduino connected to the Rolodex detects the position of the wheel and sends that information over bluetooth to the N900. Each position indicates a specific contact. Without touching your N900, you bring up the contact you need to the screen of the N900.

Talk & Text

A Nokia N900 and an Arduino are hidden inside a Speak & Spell. The keys are connected to the arduino which sends the signals over bluetooth to the N900. So you can write and send a text message using a Speak & Spell.

Now in 3D!

They’ve fitted a N900 inside a Viewmaster, when you move the Viewmaster to the left or the right a switch is triggered. The signal is then passed on through an arduino board and a bluetooth signal to the N900. The camera of the N900 takes now 2 images, a few centimeters apart. The two images are colored red and blue and superimposed and displayed on the screen of the N900, so when you look through the Viewmaster you’ll see a 3D image.

Two awesome sites to make you smile.

http://whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com/

http://dontjudgemyhair.com/

That Kanye, he gets everywhere

Kanye West has been in a bit of trouble of late. In case you have been living in a hole, he got a bit over-excited at the recent MTV VMAs when he felt that Beyonce was the rightful winner of the best female video of the year, and interrupted the actual winner Taylor Swift to tell her so. And now he's popping up on desktops all over town...

 To see Kanye on your own site, follow the instructions here...

Rotterdam’s Temple of Trash Built From PET Bottles

In 2007 at the folly festival FollyDock in Rotterdam, the creative designers from SALZIG Design Team have come up with this intriguing Temple of Trash. Located in an old district of Rotterdam, this 7m high, 25m long and 10m wide trash pile consists of 100 tones of PET bottles compacted into rough cubes. The structure, which was meant to inspire recycling to both the casual visitor and the green minded, has now become an attraction serving its purpose with ease. It would be interesting to know how the Temple of Trash will look 1,000 years from now when future generations will dig it up. 

Hangin’ Out at IKEA

Capitalizing on the viral popularity of People of Walmart blog, there’s a new blog called the People of IKEA.

While that’s nifty and all, there’s an even stranger IKEA phenomenon: Chinese people love to go there, not to shop, but simply to hang around!

With no plans one Saturday, Zhang Xin told his wife, son and mother to wear something smart and hop into the family sedan. He could have taken them to the Forbidden City or the Great Wall, but he decided on another popular destination — IKEA.

Riding an escalator past a man lying on a display bed with a book opened on his belly, the clan sauntered into the crush of visitors squeezing onto the showroom path, bumping elbows and nicking ankles with their yellow shopping trolleys.

Zhang said the family needed a respite from the smog and a reliable lunch.

"We just came here for fun," said the 34-year-old office manager. "I suppose we could have gone somewhere else, but it wouldn’t have been a complete experience."

Welcome to IKEA Beijing, where the atmosphere is more theme park than store.

David Pierson of the LA Times has the intriguing story: Link