Rami has lived on three continents, can get by in three languages, and got a great deal on a three-for-one university degree. In his free time, he can generally be found fiddling with open-source software and websites, in which he is joined by his stuffed toy penguin Aristophanes.
- at 17:18 on 03-03-2010 link Interestingly, I suspect the exact opposite. I agree -- what limited exposure I've had to the games-as-art folks (admittedly largely due to blogs, etc linked from the Playpen) gives me the impression that they're much more interested in the consumer swallowing their vision of themselves as artistic pioneers whose œuvre will later be studied and revered. Which may be why they deliberately draw parallels to the most obvious technological cousins in film and TV?
- at 08:15 on 02-03-2010 link That's quite a good article, Dan, thanks.
- at 14:58 on 18-01-2010 link @Andy (and everyone else, really): Playpen and comments should automagically recognize URLs, so you can just type (say) http://www.ferretbrain.com and it'll come out linkified...
- at 08:11 on 18-01-2010 link Oh for f**k's sake Hollywood...
- at 16:05 on 17-01-2010 link At least he's consistently weird, if not consistent in the general acceptability of the people he's offensive toward...
- at 18:10 on 09-01-2010 link To be honest, I'm not sure if even that is realistically possibleYou're kidding, right?
- at 11:40 on 04-01-2010 link And quite a good fairy tale it was, too -- thanks for the link! I too will be seeking out the work of this Abraham fellow...
- at 00:48 on 21-12-2009 link I've actually just seen it -- happy to write something if you don't feel up to it, although I think you might do a better job of it ;-)
- at 06:03 on 20-12-2009 link One thing that is a REAL problem in German: they have the same word for "friend" and "boy/girlfriend" Yeah, there's something similar in Bangla. Although there's tone and context that makes one or the other more obvious, at least IME quite often to make it clear people will deploy words that aren't quite appropriate to the situation (like "courtship" -- now there's one you don't hear frequently in English!)...
- at 18:50 on 16-12-2009 link I'm not sure I don't feel the same way about tool-using octopuses I just hope it doesn't transfer to other cephalopods -- tool-using squid would be even more frightening...
- at 13:03 on 13-12-2009 link Is it too much to hope that the article is satirical? It might be too much, yes :-( a few years ago I would have eagerly and unironically enjoyed an article like that, and where there's an audience there's an author...
- at 05:16 on 04-12-2009 link Sorry, picky: it's Bangalore. Quite easy, given the similar spellings in transliteration, to confuse or conflate it with Bangladesh, which in reality is about 1800 kilometers away.
- at 17:16 on 03-12-2009 link Fair enough; I haven't seen that one because I haven't been to the cinema in a while. Lucky you. On this side of the pond the posters and whatnot are everywhere. It's really rather annoying. Yes, they are all very pretty young people, but that doesn't mean I want to look at them all the time...
- at 05:40 on 25-11-2009 link HTML-tag-closing-issue fixed. Finally. Wasn't what I thought, either.
- at 19:21 on 23-11-2009 link Gotcha, seen your issue, will get to it after work. Damn these time zones...
- at 01:52 on 23-11-2009 link [Hangs head in shame at failure to close html tag.]Actually, it's me who should be ashamed -- the Ferret should have closed that tag for you at some point, but it turns out there was a bug in its new auto-linkifying feature. That should be fixed now, and your HTML should behave itself again...
