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"Japan’s love of robots lies in the history of the ‘Karakuri Ningyo’. Until now there has been little interest from outside Japan regarding the Karakuri Ningyo craft, and its influence on technology and the arts."
The old build contains everything that had been built to that date, which includes levels cut from the retail release, and also game features that THQ cut to help make the game more palatable to the mass market. Word is: "The build uses a completely different physics engine than the one used in the final retail version. This build is fully playable and contains all of the original levels as well as those that were cut such as Dead City, Swamp and Generators."
"for the best music search, information, recommendations and remix tools on the web."
a bit in the audiosurf idea, more basic though
travel in the nano world // is it me or it's using a couple of sounds from videogames ? I keep hearing sounds from HL1 & Splinter Cell
Image editor in firefox
the world is turning into a giant API. I love that
"Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards."
you'll never sit comfortably again
on last.fm, the riaa, u2 and techcrunch
On Facebook TOS : "If, after reading this, you’re still tearing your hair out worried that you’ll have to pay royalties next time you quote yourself saying “omg, lol, like totally 4 shur,” I’d like to ask you a serious question: have you ever met a fucking corporate lawyer?"
"For the past four years, Scottish artist Avery has created texts, drawings, installations and sculptures which describe the topology and cosmology of an imaginary island, whose every feature embodies a philosophical proposition, problem or solution."
damn.. poor moot :/
better !
"hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. When a zombie is poked with a sharp object, for example, it does not feel any pain. However, it behaves exactly as if it does feel pain (..), but it does not actually have the experience of pain as a putative 'normal' person does.
"a term of art used in philosophy for sensory occurrences of all kinds. (...) Clarence Irving Lewis, who considered them distinct from the properties of objects. To carry the definition further than the non-committal phrase ‘sensory occurrences’ is at once to enter into controversial territory."
