hey are you cool.
A collection of the people one player meets in Day Z. This is exactly what I love about these sandbox online games – the stories that come out of them are fascinating.
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Noel Gallagher reviews Oasis videos and hates them all
I’ve never much liked their music, but I’ve always admired Noel Gallagher for his glorious, foul-mouthed candour. I love that he can even apply this to his own work.
Smithsonian – “You Can Get Placebo Sleep”
Interesting. I’ve been getting really spotty sleep for the last couple of months, and I’ve noticed that any time I’m much worse any time I think got bad sleep, even if my sleepcycle tells me otherwise.
Sneaky Cards
Real-world ‘quest’ cards, where almost everything is designed to brighten someone’s day, or at least make it more interesting. The multiplayer aspect almost turns it into a card-based ARG.
Netflix’s dumbed-down algorithms
Felix Salmon has a great write-up on the recent changes to Netflix’s recommendation scheme. Basically, Netflix is a victim of its own success.