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DARPA Grand Challenge
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3 comments on DARPA Grand ChallengeI was delighted to read that at least three teams had gotten to the end of the DARPA Grand Challenge, which saw autonomously-driven cars run along a 211km course – which, importantly, they didn’t know in advance. And yet what spin does BBC News put on it? They say that the technology will be used…
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Asians != Chinese?
An unusual thing happened to me recently. I received an email from someone from the BBC who was interested in learning more about alternate reality games. In the process of our chat, she mentioned she was involved with producing a TV show for Asians and wondered if I knew any British Asians who were into…
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Speechifying
On Wednesday I’m heading off to The Future Laboratory’s Autumn 2005 ‘Trend Briefing’; unsurprisingly, alternate reality gaming is in, and while Mind Candy isn’t giving a presentation, we are going to be featured in one, so we have a few free tickets. Observant readers will note that their flyer doesn’t actually mention ARGs – rather,…
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Sweet sweet corn
One of the things I love about going abroad is the fact that the food is always cheaper and better (at the same price) than London. Sure, London has good food – if you can afford the money and time to check it out. When you’re on holiday, not only does the rest of the…
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Terminal 3
After a while, you begin to realise that the only times you get to sit down and update your weblog is when you physically cannot do anything else; on a bus, in jail, or in an airport. Well, that’s not quite true. I could read a magazine or a book, or gaze at the various…
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London and Google
Busy. Very busy. But not too busy to have my 23rd birthday yesterday, watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and eat some chocolate cake. In case I don’t mention it later, I’m going to be in Toronto in early September and I’m planning to organise some kind of Perplex City/alternate reality gaming meetup, so keep…
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Notes from a Small Symposium, and others
The past Thursday saw me make a flying visit to Cambridge for a quarter-day symposium on wireless gaming. Returning to Cambridge is always a strange experience for me; I spent three years of my life holed up in a few square miles of town, so it all feels very familiar, despite the fact that half…
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The First Rule is…
If you are at all interested in Doctor Who and would rather not know any plot details of the last episode, do not read any stories about Doctor Who on the internet from now on. You might think that you can rely on places like the BBC and the Guardian not to spoil the ending,…
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Seasons
Today, the coach took a different route home. Because of the bank holiday weekend and the high temperature, the A40 to Oxford was gummed by traffic, so the driver decided to go on an another route, which he said was slightly longer but should get us there much quicker. The last half hour of travel…
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E3 photo blog
If you’d like to know what the Mind Candy team and I are getting up to at the E3 convention in Los Angeles, check out our Flickr Photo Blog for lots of fun and illicit photos of various E3 exhibits and cool stuff.
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