2013-02-20 (Wednesday)
Links
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Gamasutra: Mike Rose’s Blog - Using SimCity to diagnose my home town’s traffic problem
Replicating a real town’s traffic problems. I still can’t wait. (via Terra Nova)
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SimCity vs. The Suburban Sprawl - Tested
Different road layouts in the new SimCity. I can’t wait.
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Chromatophobia: My Fear of Color: Observatory: Design Observer
Michael Bierut on his cluelessness about how to choose colours. I’m glad it’s not just me. (via @cityofsound)
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Boiling Spacetime: How Time Works In The Graphic Novel
Warren Ellis: “You can make time run so fast that the reader thinks that your comic has been injected into their eyeball, or so slow and heavy that the reader feels like you’ve boiled a doorstop novel into some condensed informational substrate.”
Tweets
@tomcoates It’s OK, I’m sure will.i.am will do a special Google Glass design soon.
@paulpod I can’t bear to. Heaven forfend this amazing technology might have to deal with real problems.
@paulpod Yeah, not, “Maxine works as a cleaner, and lives in a council-supplied room in a B&B two hours from work.”
@paulpod Or being old. Or poor.
@beekernortham Are you in a sitcom?
Liked tweets
Draw some faces on your feet, sneak them into shot but pretend you don’t know what’s going on. Best Skype gag ever
