The Design of Everyday Things & Link Summary #04

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Just finished reading “The Design of Everyday Things” again – this book will get you to think about your everyday interfaces and the things in your environment – elevators, machines, doors, gadgets, locks, software interfaces, etc. A classic book which offers endless amount of amusement if you’re thinking twice about things you will find in there. Adopt the principles and apply them equally well to API structuring, game design, software UI and usability of things who are used everyday. Get the book here and apply it in your production process …

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The LEGO® Movie – Official Main Trailer

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  I don’t want to exaggerate… but the first full trailer for The Lego Movie makes it look like the best movie I’ve ever seen. Ever. The Lego Movie! With an all-star voice cast that includes Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth Banks, and more, the animated family flick hits theaters February 7, 2014 (USA).

About the role of credit in the economy

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How the Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio The economy works like a simple machine. But many people don’t understand it— or they don’t agree on how it works — and this has led to a lot of needless economic suffering. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share my simple but practical economic template. Though it’s unconventional, it has helped me to anticipate and sidestep the global financial crisis, and has worked well for me for over 30 years. An economy is simply the sum of the transactions that …

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Xbox One: Invitation

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Update 28.10.2013: We will contact the winners shortly-ish! Make sure to check your emails! This is an invitation to a new generation. Where your games and entertainment are no longer separated, but together in one. This is an invitation from the all-in-one, Xbox One. Jump ahead. You like to play your games with friends? Already waiting for the Next-Generation XBOX? Get your invitation here and play with us some games on the brand new XBOX ONE! Click here and get your invitation! (Germany, Austria ONLY!) Watch the trailer above and …

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The Concept of Time – End of Time!

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I hope this will help you to understand the concept of time. The gallery, portfolio and other stuff will arrive soon, mayhaps at the end of the year? It might be of help if you are familiar to the concept of time in Blizzard or Valve terms. 🙂 “Soon” does not imply any particular date, time, decade, century, or millennia in the past, present, and certainly not the future. “Soon” will arrive some day, there is no guarantee that “soon” will be here before the end of time. Maybe. Do not make …

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Removing Personal Data From The Internet

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Time consumption so far ‘3 Days 2 Hours 05 Minutes’ Facebook RESET – DONE Twitter RESET – DONE Google+ RESET – DONE XING RESET – DONE Linkedin RESET – DONE YouTube reorganized/cleaned – DONE Searchable Web Data – Around 93% Personalized Web Data – Around 96% Removing Data (Avatar, Nicknames, Clan Tags, Profiles) = 92% Forum Data = 70% Data from old websites = DONE Backtracks/Pingbacks/Refr = unknown Cross references = DONE old weblinks = almost done Personal Name Data = in progress Blog posts & Forum posts/Accounts = in …

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Borderlands 2 – sFX 1.4 + XNFX

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Recently I played lots of Borderland 2 in my spare time. Here are a few screenshots with and without SweetFX-1.4+XNFX. Anyway, next week new old “retro bloggin”! And NO! I won’t open the comment section again, never ever! Currently I’m working on an combination of Sweet FX 1.4 with my XNFX shaders. There is a lot to do. For example: SMAA and FXAA are not working correctly. Also I have a few problems with the correct values in the configuration file… anyway – next week “RETRO BLOGGIN”! 😛 Or call …

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RSA Animate – Re-Imagining Work

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Despite the fact that most people today have a far richer experience of technology in their personal lives, we still tend to use technology at work in a way that hasn’t greatly changed in over 30 years. At home, we are surrounded by a multitude of powerful, connected devices, we have adopted an entirely new perspective around openness and sharing and, for the most part, we continue to search out new and different ways of putting technology in a place where it can enable us to become greater than the …

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Flash Flood For Good

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We’re all part of the ripple effect to give kids around the world clean water. The#FlashFloodForGood is on! Please click to learn more and donate http://awe.sm/aGnL1.

Every $10 Donation Raised During Flash Flood For Good Will Provide Clean Drinking Water For A Child for One Year in Ethiopia, Myanmar and Rwanda

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FLASH FLOOD FOR GOOD
Flash Flood For Good is one of Cause Swarm’s customized products (“branded swarm”) developed to raise awareness and donations for clean water around the world. The first Flash Flood For Good will be unleashed at the Clinton Global Initiative in NYC on September 24, 2013, and will run for 72 hours during the course of the summit. Visit www.flashfloodforgood.org and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Intaracting with the gaming community

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The greatest threat to the video game industry may be some of its most impassioned fans. Increasingly, game developers are finding themselves under attack by some of the very people they devote their lives to entertaining. And this growing form of gamer-on-game-developer cyber harassment is starting to take its toll. …not much time. Here you go… read the full article on polygon!

Skyrim: Into the Void (Fan-Film)

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Dovahkiin, the noble dragonborn hero, is cursed in a fight with a vampire. He spends a considerable time wandering the realm before being captured by the Dark Brotherhood, who offer him a deal. Dovahkiin agrees to help the Brotherhood save a captured member from the Necromancers, in exchange for a cure to his vampirism.