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Google’s Niantic Labs embarks on a giant interactive transmedia project with controversial author James Frey | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi10 years ago10 years ago07 mins

Endgame is going to be a fascinating project in collective storytelling. The project started as Endgame: The Calling, a novel published in October from best-selling (and controversial) author James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton. It is the first of three books. Before the second novel comes out, Google’s Niantic Labs division will launch its Endgame mobile game. Much…

The Worst Board Games Ever Invented | FiveThirtyEight

Oliver Roeder10 years ago10 years ago01 mins

FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver’s newly launched website at ESPN, uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about politics, science, economics, lifestyle, and sports. The Worst Board Games Ever Invented | FiveThirtyEight.

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Mashup Illustrates How Many Country Hits Are Pretty Much The Same Song « Saving Country Music

Trigger10 years ago10 years ago06 mins

Jan 7 We complain all the time about how today’s popular country music pretty much all sounds the same, but is this really true from a technical standpoint? That is what one enterprising Audiophile and songwriter set out to illustrate by making a mashup of some of Bro-Country’s biggest singles over the last couple of…

Make your first game right now, with no experience (really) | Polygon

Ben Kuchera10 years ago10 years ago02 mins

Tom Francis used to write for PC Gamer, and then he decided to make his own game. The problem was that he had very little idea of how to actually do that. He started from scratch, and the result was Gunpoint, a successful title “about rewiring things and punching people.” He’s now working on a…

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A Close Call on Publication of Charlie Hebdo Cartoons – NYTimes.com

Margaret Sullivan10 years ago10 years ago08 mins

Was The Times cowardly and lacking in journalistic solidarity when it decided not to publish the images from the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that precipitated the execution of French journalists? Some readers I’ve heard from certainly think so. Evan Levine of New York City wrote: “I just wanted to register my extreme disappointment at…

A social network for dudes with beards is kinda, sorta, accidentally revolutionizing online dating – The Washington Post

Caitlin Dewey10 years ago10 years ago08 mins

Some bearded dudes, courtesy Bristlr. Kershaw, the creator of the dating site, is third from right. (Bristlr) It’s probably one of the most annoying, and most inevitable, aspects of online dating: No matter who you are or what site you use, you’re bound to get a boatload of generic messages that look like they were…

The King Of Augmented Reality Street Fighting | Motherboard

Louise Beltzung10 years ago10 years ago016 mins

Louis XIV has been enthroned on a horse on the Place des Victoire in Paris since 1828. However, the Sun King had to reconquer his place on the streets of the French capital, after his statue was melted into cannons by revolutionaries and was briefly replaced by a naked general. Today, Place des Victoire…

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Why journalists face more harm in an age of abundant media

PBS10 years ago10 years ago012 mins

TRANSCRIPT JUDY WOODRUFF: The attacks in Paris were focused on a very different kind of newspaper, as we just heard. But, every day, traditional journalists are facing real dangers and threats. In fact, the past three years have seen the highest number of journalists killed or imprisoned in recent times. Jeffrey Brown has our look….

Clickbait Has a New Address – NYTimes.com

Molly Oswaks10 years ago10 years ago09 mins

Photo Credit The New York Times close shareTools Some of the most popular reading material on the Internet, at least among the meta-humor-loving tech-industry types, is now being provided by URLs. You know, the name of the website you are perusing, plus the string of words, numbers and dashes that follow. Dean Praetorius, a 26-year-old…

Birthright Citizenship Is a Sacred Guarantee – The Atlantic

Comic Book Publisher Drops Neil Gaiman Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations – The New York Times

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Scores of career State Dept. diplomats resign before Trump inauguration – The Washington Post

Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump’s Inauguration | WIRED

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Google’s Niantic Labs embarks on a giant interactive transmedia project with controversial author James Frey | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi

The Worst Board Games Ever Invented | FiveThirtyEight

People Use A Bidet For The First Time

Mashup Illustrates How Many Country Hits Are Pretty Much The Same Song « Saving Country Music

Make your first game right now, with no experience (really) | Polygon

A Close Call on Publication of Charlie Hebdo Cartoons – NYTimes.com

A social network for dudes with beards is kinda, sorta, accidentally revolutionizing online dating – The Washington Post

The King Of Augmented Reality Street Fighting | Motherboard

Why journalists face more harm in an age of abundant media

Clickbait Has a New Address – NYTimes.com