Warcraft stories .Really nice short by Cormac Kelly.

(via Kotaku)

I found an interview with William Sims Bainbridge (via. CultureLab) who just finished a study on warcraft and human behaviour in virtual worlds. Many interesting point of views – would be nice to read the whole thing.

He arguments that the data in the virtual worlds should be logged and saved to be presereved like any other important world history artifact. I agree – his point about the virtual worlds impact on our current world culture should be saved for future studies. But also the fact that the virtual worlds themselves change. For me (im an 3 year ex. wow player) some vivid memories from a period of my life is almost entirely from warcraft experiences – Since that game continues to evolve some of thoose memories places will soon no longer exits (the upcoming wow realease end 2010- sending players back to old Azeroth).

Very interesting.

Read it here

For all you pink nerds out there check out my new and implemented Cornify button on the right panel  or click the unicorn below.

cornify just won SXSW web Award. Get more cornify stuff here.

It could be fun to make a iphone game. This upcoming game graphic style looks really cool. IMP or OAF

Via the site Touch Arcade

I was really sad to see that my favorite kana application was down. But luckily I backed it up earlier this year
Credits goes to dragonmedia.us , I guess.

Enjoy ^^

With 23 video in the lead the aim was high. Build and create content for a web tv station in two days. Here I am on the first day :O Check the outcome of futureTVlab

When the Japanese write they mix three writing systems which is why its a BIG hurdle to get started on reading real japanese – but also much more fun

First of all Japanese got kana which is 2 almost similar syllabic  alphabets called hiragana and katakana.  Each sign in theese alphabets is a sound and they each have 46 basic signs and some extra combinations. Hiragana is recognised as the signs with the round  and soft shapes used for regular japanes words. Katakana is more edgy and straight and is used for foreign words, emphasis and special words.  So you will see icecream written in katakana and sushi written in hiragana or kanji. Most teaching books start out using romanization (in japanese calles rōmaji ). This is a translation af the japanese kana to the latin alphabet,  so you can read the words without anny knowledge of the japanese alphabet – f.ex. sushi, Tōkyō etc.

Kanji is the chineese symbols used in japanese writing. Kanji represent ideas or words rather than syllables. Kanji can be put together to form new words. The japanese ministry has choosen approx. 2000 kanji used to read Japanese – but in reality there are many more to learn.  Sometimes kanji are spelled out with small hiragana symbols above them called furigana (so you can read it aloud without knowing the kanji). So how does they look.

English word:

Train

(this word would not be written in katakana – but this is just for showing the difference)

Romanization:

densha         (de – n – sha)

Hiragana:

でん しゃ

Katakana

デンシャ

Kanji:

電車

(this is a 2 compund kanji which means electric – vechicle)

Where to start.  You can follow along my mission from thenethernet – and we will go through some good online tools for learning to read Japanese.

If youre allready on it.. then what are you waiting for, click next

CG Challenge 09

http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/secret_agent/

Just great

http://www.rottenfresh.com/biking-bamboo/

Its integrated into all games. Here is a fun one
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