"Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine the possibilities of this free-form display: a swarm of pixels in a space."

"I wanted to imagine whether "CD culture" might also return in the future, and if so, what might drive it and what it might involve."

replace your GPS' voice with WHATEVER YOU WANT

So the Internet is going to be filled with dead people.

And their numbers will mount.

turns videos into Ascii Art or retroish pixels

"3D scanning with a plain webcam"

"Why hasn't anyone harnessed the power of pretending to make work a bit more fun. For the same reason so many games are just a bit, you know, much. It's that inability to be subtle, that desire, shared by games companies and brand-marketing people alike to go too far, to do too much."

It's the story of the sysadmin charged with shutting down the first and only functional AI, which no one can figure out a reason to save -- and it's the story of the AI's bid to save its own life by fixing the Unix 32-bit rollover problem.

Interesting aesthetic. "call it the first cyberpunk MMO: a virtual world about virtual worlds, in which your avatar is an avatar, the NPCs play NPCs, and you explore a multiverse in which you might be in realistic historical surroundings one minute, and cartoon fantasy ones the next. Everything changes, even your own appearance, and nothing is even pretending to be real."

"the period beginning September 1993.[2] The expression encapsulates the belief that an endless influx of new users (newbies) since that date has continuously degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet and the wider Internet."