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Thoughts on Apple Post-WWDC 2010
It’s half an hour before Steve Jobs’ keynote on a brisk Monday morning in San Francisco. The line of people anxious to see the latest Apple products wraps around a city block, the excitement driven partly because these products now provide a lifeline and an income source to thousands of independent developers, and partly from [...]
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Videogame Mashup: Pong Invaders
A recent class assignment involved creating a two-player game. I liked the idea of videogame mashups (a friend made Joust Pong) and wanted to experiment with the idea of different rulesets per player, thus Pong Invaders was born, a game where one player controls the space invaders while another player controls the iconic pong paddle [...]
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Announcing Kohei
Kohei is a collaboration between Jonathan Beilin, Mike Mai, and a women’s group in Tanzania to ethically produce hip American streetwear using traditional batik fabric and patterns. Profits are kicked back to the women’s group to fund local businesses. Launching this summer in Boston. Currently seeking stockists and investors to increase our store presence.
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Beautiful Bastard
Beautiful Bastard takes a cue from the rise of independent music during the 80s and 90s and from self-replicating third-place projects like The Awesome Foundation to bolster writing culture. Each Beautiful Bastard is a local group of authors who meet each week to conduct a lesson and to critique a member’s latest writing. After each [...]
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E-mail Poetry
This piece was sculpted out of a long email thread I had with a close friend. > reveals > > > > > [...]
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DJambalaya introduction
The first piece is DJambalaya, a playlist creation application for the iPhone that can be used on its own or to control a remote computer.
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On Alan Kay’s Technological Determinism
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay Alan Kay’s famous phrase reads as inspirational. I support the spirit of it entirely as it accords with the American spirit, the hacker ethos, the do-it-yourself revolutionary philosophy. It’s comforting and empowering to think that all it takes is some elbow-grease and ingenuity [...]
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On Hysterical Realism
As I progress writing my novel, I find that my writing undeniably employs the devices used by the hysterical realists. This comes as no surprise given my literary preferences, yet it is a trait I must acknowledge nonetheless. I will now take a moment to congratulate myself for being sufficiently mature to admit that I [...]
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Paternalistic “feminism”