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Internet Memetics and Fads
microformats as proteins, webistes as finite-state machines, abstraction modifier drugs, etc...
"It’s nobody’s responsibility to finish what amounts to video game homework. We game for fun, for adventure, for revelation. We don’t game to sit through a re-skinned version of a Barnes and Noble discount books puzzle."
"There is a large element of choice here, but regardless of your input, the output is always the same/That new summon isn’t appealing because it’s powerful, but because it’s new, so you can see that totally sweet cutscene that plays when you use it"
Normal Person + Anonimity + Audience = Total Fuckwad
"95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography."
how toxoplasma influences the human behaviour - and maybe countries cultures
The notion is that the Internet is becoming less of a place we "go to" and more of a layer atop our entire everyday reality. As a result, the term "cyberspace," coined by William Gibson in 1984, just doesn't seem relevant anymore.