Links for 2009-10-09

In Links on 9 October 2009 with no comments

• Former 'ilovebees' devs working on ODST meta-game 'Sadie's Story'
  A new Fourth Wall Studios project. Ashley Wood's involvement is promising.
  (tags: args halo ilovebees alternaterealitygames games)
• The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future – Future metro – io9
  "The generous attitude towards failure that big cities afford is invaluable-it's how things get created. In a small town everyone knows about your failures, so you are more careful about what you might attempt." Finally gotten around to reading Jones piece that connects scifi, comics, urbanism and interaction design. Being fascinated by cities myself, this was a treat.
  (tags: cities comics urbanism sciencefiction scifi mattjones architecture ubicomp interactiondesign)
• The kind of program a city is « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
  '”I learned to drive in order to read Los Angeles in the original,” said the great 20th Century architectural critic Reyner Banham, and the systems we’re talking about are orders of magnitude more complex than mere cars and freeways.'
  (tags: urbanism ubicomp everyware adamgreenfield cities)

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