links for 2009-04-27

Video of a physics-based plat­form puz­zle game that involves the manip­u­la­tion of light and shad­ow. Some def­i­nite poten­tial here, I imag­ine one of the great­est design chal­lenges is get­ting the the con­trol scheme right. Via Hessel.

“Inci­den­tal­ly, does­n’t ‘Blog All Dog-Eared Pages’ seem like a rather exact pre­cur­sor to what Steven John­son is talk­ing about here. Imag­ine how pop­u­lar this would be if you did­n’t have to tran­scribe stuff by hand.” Which is exact­ly what I was think­ing when I read the NYT arti­cle Rus­sell links to. I would kill for a book anno­ta­tion blog­ging plat­form thing. Killer start-up con­cept anyone?