A quote by Vladimir Nabokov.
Celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy causes an existential crisis by quoting a hoax author.
How to make short text messages more effective.
Various musings of the moment. Given this general theme, one could be forgiven for thinking that I'm applying a cattle-prod to myself (or at least trying to). How to Do What You Love 50 Strategies…
Usually when I write spontaneously here, it's because a topic or idea has been percolating in my mind for a while, and I will stumble across a reference or blog post that provides the necessary…
Really? I expected better from such a radical thinker as Jaron Lanier. His recent op-ed in the NYT is just not making any sense at all. Traditionally, artists, writers, musicians have been at…
The writer is doubtless stricken with writers block And can thus, for weeks, vanish into a myriad of dark rooms Where conversation dangles under glistening rows of liquor. The programmer is expected…
Wherewithin, Wikipedia is a seemingly infinite source of hilarity from an unsurpassed synthesis of inanity and insanity.
It’s hard to explain the collision of forces and events that has occurred over the past several months.
Innovation means a new way of doing something. At least, it used to mean that. Now, it apparently means a different way of doing something.
Though I'm clearly not a fan of link whoring "best of" or "top 10" posts, I wanted to take a quick look back at the most amazing ideas and incisive commentary that exploded through my RSS reader this…
In case you hadn't noticed - it's the 4th anniversary of this website. Happy birthday maetl! Well maetl has really been around for much longer than that - it's just that it wasn't until 2004 when…
I'll never write another novel on an electric typewriter. I'd rather use a sharp stick and a little pile of dogshit. - Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker On rereading this, and pondering…
Long overdue, perhaps more difficult than finding time, was the problem of actually having something to write inside this architecture. But finally, the format of the experiment…
Positive life changes can only happen when I am able to choose when and how I work, what I work on, and who I work with.
Why do we call programming languages “languages”? What is missing from the literary traditions of programming?
Anyone who knows me, is well aware of the variegated mayhem of my creative impulses. I get swept away by so many different ideas, some days I get pretty lost in a flurry of forking paths, not knowing…
Apologies for the recent silence on this channel. The pipeline is rather choked at present, and I haven't completed any interesting content for a while. Recent work has been fairly frustrating and…
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or…
The games industry has come to a crossroads, something that is becoming more and more apparent as I engage deeper into research for my upcoming game (more on that soon). The Guardian Games Blog has…
From time to time we take our pen in hand And scribble symbols on a blank white sheet. Their meaning is at everyone's command; It is a game whose rules…