links for 2006-08-25

Peter Molyneux warns against the new Wii con­troller — phys­i­cal­ly con­trolled games are too tir­ing, he says. That may be the first thing Molyneux men­tions I whole­heart­ed­ly dis­agree with. What’s more, phys­i­cal­ly con­trolled games such as Dance Dance Revolutio

““The trou­ble with nor­mal is it always gets worse” That’s what horsepigcow.com is all about for me. Mak­ing cer­tain that nor­mal does­n’t get worse.”

Mer­holz dis­cuss­es Tufte’s new book, chap­ter by chap­ter. This post is on chap­ter 3 and leads Mer­holz to pon­der the ways in which we can tell sto­ries through dia­grams and the need for unam­bigu­ous notation.

“are we as a cul­ture start­ing to con­struct toys that are too effec­tive and end up hurt­ing peo­ple?” — Coates pon­ders the addic­tive nature of WoW.

Elab­o­rate site ded­i­cat­ed to graf­fi­ti in the city I live in: Utrecht. Via Bart.

Emoti­cons for in your car’s rear win­dow. Nice idea.

Pret­ty cool piece on how Gmail and Fire­fox have come to effec­tive­ly replace Apple’s paid for .Mac ser­vice. With links to some handy tools.