The University opened registration this AM, and CCTP628, Arcade Theory, is almost full. If you are interested in taking the class but are unable to register (due to a hold on your record, et cetera), please email me to let me know, and I’ll save you a seat. Read more – ‘Arcade Theory Almost Full’.
My normally reliable Macbook Pro has been acting up this weekend, sputtering, whirring and churning, so I’ve been thinking a lot about OS crashes and kernal panics. This semester, in my new graduate course, Arcade Theory (CCTP-628), we’ll spend some time on glitches, gaffes, bugs, and breakpoints. The digital glitch is, to my mind, the [...] Read more – ‘Are Bugs Really All That Bad?’.
In January of this year, on the day following the death of historian Howard Zinn, A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz delivered a thoughtful little talk at SUNY Buffalo. In so doing, I think he managed neatly to extend Zinn’s 20th Century civitas a little further into our own time. “I’m worried that students will take their [...] Read more – ‘What Would Tocqueville Make of the American (Digital) Farmer?’.
Augmented reality applications and games have been a gleam in the eyes of developers (and the promise of trade show charlatans) for decades, but with increasingly ubiquitous video cam inputs and tons of spare processing power, they are finally becoming a reality. Via Gizmodo: Players interact with their virtual pet using a bundled card and [...] Read more – ‘Eyepet: Augmented Reality’.
