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  • Mind Candy Wants You!

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    I’ve been at Mind Candy, developing Perplex City full time, for almost two years now. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a Bruce Sterling novel, jumping from neuroscience to a job which didn’t exist five years ago and is still difficult to explain to people. It’s obviously been a fun, if hectic, time, and it’s…

  • San Francisco

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    Part of the reason I’ve disappeared for over a month is because I’ve been completely immersed in organising the upcoming San Francisco live event for Perplex City. Let’s just say that it’s a step up from what we’ve done in the past, and it’s really demanding a lot of my time. Anyway, it means that…

  • Anti-Addiction pill

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    An Anti-Addiction Pill? – a clear and well-written article from the New York Times on new methods to treat addiction. Quite a nice way for me to catch up on recent developments in the field.

  • GameSetWhat?

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    Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT and researcher into videogames talked about alternate reality games, among other things, in a recent interview. I quite like when Jenkins has to say most of the time, but I found his comments on ARGs to be bafflingd. It’s perfectly true to say that…

  • The Hugo Nominees

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    <a title="The Hugo Nominees, 2006″ href=”http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/Hugo2006.htm”>The Hugo Nominees, 2006 – a comprehensive guide to all the stories nominated for this year’s SF Hugo Award. If you scroll down, you can view many of the stories for free simply by clicking on them – god bless the internet!

  • No comment moderation on Massive

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    In order to celebrate a new article in the ‘Massive’ section (it was going to be in this column but I thought it deserved more), I’ve turned off the registration mechanism there. Previously, you had to sign up for Typekey in order to post a comment. I did this to prevent spam from clogging things…

  • The Longest Journey

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    A review of The Longest Journey, and thoughts about graphical adventure games.

  • Let’s switch

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    I was watching X-Men with a friend this weekend when I suddenly realised that Doctor Who was on as well. I immediately took control of the remote and switched to BBC 1. This weekend’s episode was about the Cybermen, of course, and I was looking forward to this. After five minutes, my friend said “Why…

  • Internet World

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    I was at the Internet World conference in Earl’s Court this afternoon, speaking about Alternate Reality Games. It’s a bit of a grandiose name for a conference that is essentially aimed at SMEs, but they’d managed to round up a pretty interesting bunch of speakers, including people from the likes of Yahoo, MSN, Blockbuster, Virgin,…

  • Happy Elephant

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    Guardian weblog hating the Elephant – the Scrooge-like nature of the Guardian comes out in full force with this cynical bashing of the Sultan’s Elephant. Luckily all the commenters proceed to set the balance right.