Confederacy of Dunces is a book from the late 1960’s, set in New Orleans. I first heard of it from the writer/speaker/internet guy Merlin Mann, who uses a line from it as his Twitter ‘handle’, differentiating his presence on the mighty microblogging service from his more professional website, 43folders.com. As I said in my last [...]
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Pete’s Delicious- Ian Bogost - Cow ClickerIf I still had a Facebook account, this is the sort of game I would install on it - a satire of "social media" games. Although this would be a joke that would be totally lost on most of my networked "friends". […]
- Hibari: A Mac Twitter client with keyword filtering, muting, inline saved search results, inline conversations, tweet lookup, and moreFinally, a twitter client that gives you the experience of not being on twitter. […]
- Strange But True: A Short Biography of Chuck Palahniuk | The CultBiography of Palahniuk that runs through some interesting facts - for instance, that his first book was in the mode of Stephen King, was 700 pages long, and soundly rejected by everyone. Unlike that lady who wrote the Harry Potter books, he took this as a sign to do some editing and rethinking, and ended up creating Fight Club from the bones of that material […]
- Don’t Be Ugly By Accident! « OkTrendsApparently, iPhones users have more sex! This must be those other iPhone users. Maybe it doesn't extend to iPhone 3G users. Do I need to upgrade something? Why are you sniggering? […]
- Kenneth Goldsmith - If It Doesn't Exist on the Internet, It Doesn't ExistThe most interesting thing about this essay is it's author - the founder of Ubuweb - predicts what happened next over the few years of the internet. Certainly something to look at in relation to what's coming next. […]
- Ian Bogost - Cow Clicker
