Mogi Item Hunt is a location-based game designed by the french company Newt Games. It uses the GPS functions of the KDDI AU phones and allows you to pick up virtual items spread on the whole of Japan. A game where players move outside, pick-up virtual items, through their mobile phone interfac...
[Space and Place] Abandoned subway stations in NYC
Via space and culture, some abandoned subway stations, platforms, trolleys, railroads...: here ...
[Research] Using the automobile as a lens for looking at the telephone
Howard Rheingold on the feature: People whose lives and whose children's lives were changed by the coming of the automobile failed to foresee the social side-effects of this wonderful new invention that brought freedom and power to so many people, so quickly. Can we foresee the mobilecom-dominated...
[TheWorld] Hard Times: Man Accused of Stealing .25 Cents of Power
Via Yahoo News: BERLIN - German prosecutors said Thursday they are investigating a student for stealing electricity after he plugged his laptop into a train station electrical socket and used 0.2 euro cents, or a quarter of a U.S. cent's worth, of power. The 23-year-old man, whose identity wasn't r...
[Weird] "Mole People" living under the streets of New York City?
Nice piece of text about possible life under the street of NYC: The mole people, as documented in an eponymous 1993 book by Jennifer Toth, are homeless people who live in subway tunnels, sucking down electricity and other resources for free a la Ellison's Invisible Man. ...
[VideoGame] Game Studies: two examples
Via MIT: Technology Review Hector Postigo examines the economic importance of game mods as a kind of free labor for the commercial industry. He concludes, From a labour theory standpoint, it seems that modders add a considerable amount of value to commercial games. They contribute in the region of...
[TheWorld] Terror Alert Level and Sesame Street
There is a new scale for evaluating terror level: ...
[Space and Place] Trolleys as Mobile Devices: transitory occupation of the social city space !
Nice study in spanish about Trolley and infra-housing: mobile devices and transitory occupation of the social city space: This contribution, fundamentallly based on the working developed by the authors in Quilmes University (Argentina) present an approch to urban mobility, infra-housing, social spa...
[Weird] Strange comment on my blog
Blog comments are more and more... weird: My name is Jim, my friends call my Jimmy and I work in the car rental profession. I am searching for car blogs as I like to see what is new in cars. I wanted to see if car blogs actually discuss about cars as I had heard they did. I work at a Halifax car re...
[MyResearch] About space and linguistics: Claude Vandeloise
Claude Vandeloise is a researcher in linguistic who works on spatial locative. Via this review: In previous works, Vandeloise has made extensive and deeply insightful contributions to the semantic analysis of spatial expressions in French. His richly detailed observations on their meanings and uses...