Links for this week:
- Interview with artist R Luke DuBois (link)
- Facebook adds ~50 new gender terms to profile options (link)
- In-depth and geeky post (and video) on the history of PostScript and making fonts look good (link)
- Web-app for prototyping UI called Proto.io (link)
- Tutorial on using Unity’s new 2D engine (link)
- Making-of video on sculptor Evan Holm’s project “Submerged Turntable” (link and above)
- Overview of the story of “Flappy Bird” creator Dong Nguyen (link and the results of a Flappy Bird game jam)
- An interesting tool for data-gathering: Google Correlate’s drawing feature (link)
Upcoming events/talks:
- Alex Wellerstein, STS candidate and digital historian: “Nuclear Secrecy, Nuclear Publicity: Knowledge and the Bomb in 20th and 21st Centuries” – Mon, Feb 24 from 4-5pm in Morton 324
- Brian Bridges, visiting composer from University of Ulster: “Experimental Music as ‘Environ-mental’: What Music’s Fringes Can Tell Us About How We View (And Create) Our World” – Wed, Feb 26 from 1-2pm in Morton 324
- There’s still time to register for Games++ – plus there will be free donuts and pizza!