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Occasionally encounters with human intelligence can be entirely bewildering. Suddenly you’re faced with the fact that other minds move in the same world and speak the same language, and yet have thoughts and intellectual processes going on that are entirely alien – and superior – to your own. That’s certainly how it feels to be shown the work of Eskil Steenberg, while sat at a spare table in a GDC conference hall. Steenberg’s temperamental laptop might not have wanted to help out, but what we saw flickering on that screen was astonishing and somewhat unsettling.

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The game itself, dubbed Love (as in For The Love Of Game Development), is an exploration-based moderately-multiplayer FPS with astounding impressionistic visuals and a procedurally generated universe. Since Steenberg is a one man show, he’s relying on clever maths to build the world for him and then clever gamers to come in and help him figure out where to take it, and what to do with it.

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Internet censorship is something we normally associate with countries such as Iran or China, but increasingly Western governmental and legal authorities are aggressively restricting the ability of users to view information unimpeded.

Such is the story with Wikileaks, one of the most essential websites launched in the last year and designed to publish leaked material from across the world, including the US Rules of Engagement in Iraq and news about Guantanamo Bay officials conducting covert attacks on the internet.

For some reason the original article cannot be accessed at the moment (too much traffic may be the cause) but here’s a cached version of it which you can read here.

This is a basic backgrounder for Americans, primarily, who might think Europeans do nothing all day but bitch about Americans. Don’t get me wrong—they do love bitching about Americans. But they also like bitching about each other, as well. Bordering countries, especially, have complex caricatures of each other, even when an outsider might think they’re more or less the same.

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Very cool optical illusion effects done in Flash.

Check ’em out: shapirolab.net/

Check this video from their recent tour in the states. I like these guys!

Click here for their official website.

Looking for a specific cheat-sheet? Chances are, you find it here.

From Reddit

Good bit of history of the digital revolution, then it goes all sci-fi or is it?

The 5 most popular blogs (Data from wikio.com – Feb 2008)

1 Techcrunch (Technology)
2 Daring Fireball (Technology)
3 Mashable (Technology)
4 Engadget (Technology)
5 Gizmodo (Technology)

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A Film by Clemens Kogler together with Karo Szmit. Voice by Andre Tschinder.

For more Information: http://www.clemenskogler.net/grandcontent

Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen.

By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net.