3d game, on first impressions like Snake, added to Pac-Man. Beautiful. Must hunt down katamari damacy Which translates as 'Clump of Souls', which sounds cool. Real innovation returns to gaming once every 2 years, so it's nice to see something odd.
Obvously anything outside the highly marketed teen-boy fodder gets really late european]release dates added to a really few number being released (remembering Rez, and Ico). I'll start spamming uk.playstation.com 'till its out.
Whilst Googles video search looks like an interesting use of accessibility-driven technologies, I think its time to start questioning their motives a little.
Back in the day, the reaction to Googles search was 'wow - search that really works!', everyone saw it as the great enabling force that it was, and its userbase rocketed, so much so in fact that today Google is the most popular search engine on the internet. We all happily believed Google was there to help us find what we want, and leverage some advertisign revenue off that.
However, Google sees its mission is to organize the world's information .
Thats 'organise', not 'help people find', not to 'index'. To organise generally means to impose structure, it means to have editorial control, a newspaper 'organises' information - celebrity slease or shock headline on the front page, sport on the back.
The scope of Googles mission is somewhat Orwellian. 1984 tends to be the first reference out of the bag when any kind of controlling super-state is implied. Google isn't just organising the information on the internet (aka GoogleWeb), but the whole world!
Google = MiniTru, double-plus ungood.
Googles other great movement of the moment is : the nofollow attribute. This is a crude work-around, for Google to protect its 'Page-Rank'technology. Interestingly enough, out of all the bodies which have agreed to sign up, WC3, the body responsible for the HTML standard is absent.
The rest of the HTML standard isn't user agent specific, what if MSN decide it should be a ‘no-robots’ attribute instead, or Yahoo decide it should be ’stoprobotsfollowing’. Once any company starts dictating how to use markup, it all gets messy, especially when very popular browsers cant stick to the standards.
Currently working on a corporate identity manual, as part of a rebrand for an international Health & Safety company. We're going for Paul Andreu's website(choose french) has some really substantial drawings (along-side photographs) unfortunately not lots and lots, but enough to get me excited. There just ain't enough drawings on the internet.
Considering a small investment in…
Paul Andreu by Philip Jodidio and posssibly reading it at the same time as
Twisty Little Passages by Nick Monfort
as a mashup of architecture of a quite different type.