Sunday evening's paper: Capture the Flag: A Multiplayer Online Game for Phone Users by Adrian David Cheok, Sze Lee Teo, Lei Cao, Le Nam Thang (for the ISWC05 conference): This paper explores the concept of using smart phones to facilitate pervasive mixed reality, location-based, physical and social...
A real-world bank office in a virtual world
(via), this curious news by Clickable Culture: Wells Fargo has launched their own private "Stagecoach Island" in the virtual world of Second Life. With the help of Swivel Media, a so-called "experential" marketing agency, Wells Fargo's Stagecoach Island aims to teach young adults how to handle thei...
Hands-On Activity: a bulldozer camp
Well, there seems to be really cool hands-on activities lately: Bulldozer Camp: Chances are, ever since you were a child, you've been fascinated by everything from backhoes digging utility holes, giant cranes lifting steel girders to the tops of new skyscrapers, big yellow bulldozers taking out an ...
Inflatable hat for dogs
I think I am really into a pet clothes mode lately: look at this very nice inflatable hat for dogs (found on stupid.com): ...
Prosopopeia: Live Action Role Play in Stockholm
News from the Swedish Institute of Computer Science: The Live Action Role Play event Prosopopeia was held the weekend of June 11th and 12th of June. The game designer Martin Eriksson and his team had created a suggestive story, with its origin in ancient mythology but staged in the age in which we ...
Mapping MUD (Multi User Dungeons)
Don't know whether there are still some people around using MUDs and MOO (I still do) but I am still interested in MUD/MOO (a MUD is a a multi-player computer game where everything is described with text) as a platform to investigate various concepts. Spatiality for instance is a very interesting t...
Online Poker Games behavior
Mmh this is not a 'Texas Hold'em' spam post! It's just that I found this topic curious: Hiding and Revealing in Online Poker Games byScott A. Golder and Judith Donath. A nice account of "how card room interfaces can better support the psychological aspects of the game by critiquing the dominant met...
Innovative Nintendo Revolution Controller
An article about joystick in the WSJ is not so common but sometimes it happens. It's about the new nintendo game controller which seems quite nice: Imagine a videogame where you drop a virtual fishing line into a lake. Your hand grips the pole, and you can move to where the fish are biting. When yo...
Duct tape is my life?
Just ran across this post by Jussi Angesleva in which is referring to many applications of duct tape. I am crazy of duct taped stuff (as you may know) - besides I am also crazy of Jussi's work, I don't post much things he did here because a certain belgian person living in italy always do so faster...
Art/Military happenings
Today I was in Lyon, France and I saw this intriguing art happening (meant be part of the 'Biennale d'Art Contemporain', an contemporary art festival). There is this military truck with a huge missile on it wandering around through the city. I did not have my digital camera but I found a picture of...