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anti-hero

I enter the cafeteria this morning, jonesing for my morning shot. There’s a conversation going on already, and a guy I don’t know but have seen around is saying, “Ugh, I hate superheroes anyway.” I...

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what i’m not wearing for halloween

Last weekend, the Scotsmontonian and I were walking down Whyte avenue in Edmonton when suddenly, something caught my eye in a shop window. Actually, it wasn’t in the shop window, it was in the shop but...

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i need a vacation

I’m working towards first playable these days (basically the first major deliverable of a game, where the first level is usually delivered at near-final quality). This weekend I dreamt that my game’s...

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wow.

I have to admire this kind of dedication. Here’s a girl who’s such a big fan of Wonder Woman, and so wants to play her in the upcoming movie, that she made a trailer of it starring herself as the …...

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one more thing to be geeky about

I’ve been wondering if it’s geeky of me to be reading The New Penguin History of the World. Then yesterday I got a total thrill hearing that the mummy of Hatshepsut‘s been found. And I didn’t have to...

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why helvetica is a good documentary

Because it doesn’t try to entertain first and inform second, it does the reverse. Yet the font geeks that are interviewed are fabulously entertaining. Teutons are hilarious. Because at the end of it I...

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philosophers, physicists, help!

I’ve blinded myself with science. Every time I read about physics, I get stuck at the whole Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle thing. I actually remember straining to understand it one night as a (very...

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flamewars are the fountainhead of human creativity

Note: This is a post highly similar to this one, but since our audience is completely different and I’d rather post it here than have people not follow the link, I hope Darius will forgive me. So…...

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first person digital

Public service announcement: Are you a creative English-speaking woman in Quebec? You could get up to 25000$ in funding for an interactive project! Filmmakers, photographers, new-media creators,...

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girl geek dinner links

Last night I gave a talk at the Montreal Geek Girl Dinner about the future of storytelling and emotion in videogames. Afterwards, several members of the amazing Station C audience requested references...

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