Playing video games at work proven to increase productivity(Uh.. Doubtful..)
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2008
AND BAM!
This is from a cool article I found today, take a look at it if you have a second
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Monthly Archive for June, 2008
E3 IS COMING!!!!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2008
E3 stands for “Electronic Entertainment Expo”
It is basically a big 3 day showcase for many of the upcoming software and hardware in relation to gaming and sometimes other areas of “entertainment”.
Plenty of juicy announcements are made in the weeks before the show and during the show; for example: Rock Band 2 was just announced this [...]
Vikings, Robots, and Flash, OH MY!
Posted in Uncategorized, animation, audio, video, visualization on Jun 25th, 2008
Hey Guys, I just thought I’d share one of my all-time favorite flash videos with you. It’s a music video for “War Photographer” by Jason Forrest and it’s animated by Joel Trussell.
Here’s the link with the info:
and here’s a link if you want to watch it in full screen (recommended):
This is a great example of [...]
The Sound of Colors
Posted in audio, visualization on Jun 24th, 2008
Handicap assistance or universal accessibility?
The Sound of Colors
Carbon Goggles
Posted in animation, video, virtual worlds, visualization on Jun 23rd, 2008
Visualizing carbon emmisions using Second Life…
The website is Carbon Goggles, check it out for more visualizations.
Flash Tutorial
Posted in animation on Jun 23rd, 2008
For those of you who’d like to get a little more in-depth with flash or just have a habit of forgetting a lot of the things we’ve been taught already (guilty) this tutorial is how I began teaching myself flash towards the end of the year. It’s extremely-user friendly and it’s nice to know [...]
2ToReal — vision for a M’bury second life campus
Posted in virtual worlds on Jun 20th, 2008
Hey DMTs! (mimicking Aaron fantabulous A capella) haha…
Anyway, to a more serious note now!
In line with Joe’s most recent post, i think it would be really cool if we start exploring ideas on how to go abt creating a M’bury virtual campus in second life. We could do this. Others have.
A couple of campuses such [...]
Open Sim
Posted in virtual worlds on Jun 20th, 2008
What do you guys think about the idea of hosting a virtual world, the same way we would host a website? Each world would be connected through a “broswer,” or a viewer, as it is more often called with vws.
Here is a snippet from an article, link to full article at the bottom.
Derived from [...]
Alhaji posted this a while back, thought it loked better here than in the email Anyone know if the painting still exists?
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I heard about this during the week-end while listening to one of my favorite podcasts : The Skeptics Guide to the Universe
It is an article that summarizes a new development in supercomputers. What is not said in this article but emphasized on the show is that the technicians that worked on it said that we [...]