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Are there any privately held game studios older than Stardock still in business?
Stardock's first game was released in 1994 (Galactic Civilizations) and was incorporated in 1993.
I don't mean hobbyists but actual studio with full time employees.
Anyone know?
You very well may be..........you old fart!
I was going to say Maxis but they merged with EA quite a while ago if I remember correctly.
You're even older than Spiderweb software, by 1 year. That was the only other one I could think of. Kaser has been around longer, but has no employees.
When in 1993? Ambrosia Software, maker of the great Escape Velocity series, was founded August 18, 1993.
Ah, there we go. Codemasters, founded in 1986.
They're not that rare. LucasArts was the first company I checked, and it was founded in 1982.
LucasArts is part of LucasFilm. Codemasters, though seems to be privately held. I'd say that counts.
LucasFilm is privately held. Although, if you included subsidiaries of privately held companies, then you'd also need to include all the Valve and ZeniMax studios, so that's probably cheating.
Valve is privately held. But it's not that old of a studio.
Yeah, I was wondering if any of their subsidiaries were older. Guess not. Did some quick Wikipedia research. Apparently, 1C is privately held. And produces a heck of a lot more than games.
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koei was founded in 1978... 1st game in 1983 but merged with techmo a few years ago. but it's a publicly traded company..
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Over the past few weeks, I've reached out to a couple of community bank presidents and a few others in senior positions at regional banks. I've been curious to hear what they see on the horizon for our industry and their own institutions.
Some were more animated than others when sharing their opinions of how and why our present economic, regulatory and reputational challenges came to be. One old friend stressed that his comments were not to be publicly attributed, and he reminded me that he knows where I live. (He does.)
To a person, each does not believe that standing pat and simply "waiting out the storm" is a viable option any longer. If any are expecting an economic tide on the way that will raise all boats, they are keeping those predictions to themselves.
Most believe that the next couple of years will be a tougher business environment than the last two. All hope their negative predictions are wrong, but aren't going to be betting the bank on it, so to speak.
I kidded with one of my particularly blunt and cut-to-the-chase friends that I admired his ability to get out of bed in the morning. The picture he paints of the challenges he sees for his bank in the near future is pretty daunting.
He laughed, "Well, they pay me to get out of bed in the morning. So, there's that." He then followed, "But there is an upside here. We're going to be making changes that, frankly, we should have started already."
He pointed out that for many banks, even the suggestion of closing a branch – much less multiple branches – has been considered blasphemous.
We discussed some of the reasons for this. Historically, the most visible sign that a bank was solid and growing was the building of branches.
And bank branches played a certain "factory" role. They processed the mountains of paper transactions necessary to conduct banking. The more successful the bank, the more paper to process, the more buildings were needed. Closing one of those "factories" was seen as a public sign that things were not as busy or prosperous as before.
And banks rely more than most businesses on customers' faith in their soundness and stability.
He suggested that he suspects many bankers have kept unprofitable branches in some markets open purely for the reputational risk of closing them. And maybe that has been the wise move for some. But that strategy is one that fewer organizations are willing or able to afford.
So discussions about branch network "optimization" and "consolidation" are no longer ephemeral slides in board presentations – topics you bring up, but never really act upon.
But he also shared that his total branch count going forward may not shrink much, if at all. Along with a few consolidations, he plans on opening new branches in the future, as well. These new branches, however, will have smaller footprints, rely more on technology and be staffed with smaller, more flexible branch teams.
I suggested that what he described was not a new concept to banks. He was describing the basic operating model of an in-store branch, with or without a grocery store surrounding it.
While each banker I spoke with had individual priorities for the upcoming year, all seemed to believe that real and noticeable changes are coming to their institutions.
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Preheat oven to 375
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We love making "muffins" in a mini bundt tin because it makes an ordinary muffin seem more special.
I'm always looking for recipes that lil Diva will be proud to serve for snack at preschool.
I tweaked a recipe I found on RecipeZaar to make it healthier – using Organic Products, 100% Whole Wheat Flour, adding Flax Meal & using heart healthy grapeseed oil, even more carrots and extra cinnamon.
3 Cups of Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
4 Tablespoons of Flax Meal
1/2 Cup Packed Brown Sugar
4 Teaspoons Baking Powder
3 Teaspoons of Cinnamon
1 Teaspoon Salt
3 Cups of Grated Carrots
1 Cup of Raisins
1 Cup of Milk
1/2 Cup of Molasses
1/2 Cup Grapeseed Oil
2 Eggs
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On Wednesday a group of 17 from Rapha London downed tools and rode out of the city into the lanes of Hertfordshire, through rolling Essex countryside and arriving for lunch at The Rupert Brooke public house in Grantchester, just outside Cambridge.
The forecasted showers didn't arrive and instead we were blessed with a crisp and sunny day that only this time of year can bring. Although the faintest of crosswinds made it a little chilly, the riding conditions were perfect and the rustic autumn colours of quintessential English countryside gave everyone something to smile about. Thanks to Wei and Ben for the organisation and to everyone else for a great day out.
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Yesterday, Tim was home again shortly after I typed the above post. He said he got to work and found the parking lot empty and then suddenly realized that today was a holiday and that he didn't have to go to work after all. One of those "D'oh!" moments. So he immediately turned around and came back. He filled us in on why he was back. Said he felt like an idiot. In telling what happened next, I'm sure I don't have everything that was said exactly right, but the following is as close as I can recall.
Misty and I were still in pajamas when he returned, so I told him, "Tim, Misty was a little put out that you didn't notice her boobs this morning." Tim looked puzzled, and Misty blushed. Neither said anything. Tim looked at me incredulously, then looked at Misty, then back at me.
I hoped Misty wasn't getting too embarrassed, but I was having fun with Tim and got carried away. "She has a really nice figure, don't you think?"
I think by this point, Tim realized I was playing with him but still wasn't sure how to respond without getting into trouble. He just nodded and said, "Can we change the subject now?"
I wasn't ready to change the subject. "Just saying, Misty says you can ogle her boobs now. You can ogle mine, too," I said, and took off my pajama top.
Tim grabbed me by the waist, pulled me toward him, and gave me a hard swat on my rear end. "You are absolutely shameless, you brazen hussy!" he said with a mock rebuke. Then he couldn't help grinning. As we stood there hugging each other, I glanced at Misty. She was standing with her mouth hanging open. I guess she never saw this kind of interaction between Lisa and any of her exes. I motioned for her to come over and join the hug. Tim and I both put our arms around her, and we stood there for a couple of minutes, all three hugging each other.
Finally, Misty spoke. "You guys are weird," she said, "but I love you guys."
Tim said, "Well, then, welcome to our weird little family. Now go get something on over those beautiful boobs of yours before I do something even more inappropriate." As we let go of each other and Misty headed off to her room, Tim turned to me and said, "You, on the other hand, can stay naked." Misty looked back and grinned.
Later, while Misty and I were getting supper ready, she said, "You and Tim are really in love, aren't you?" It was more of a statement than a question. "You've been married twenty years, and you still hug and tease each other. Mom would be in love for the first month and then find her husbands' flaws and the romance was gone. I didn't think people like you really existed."
I smiled and gave her a hug. "Sweetie," I said, "everybody has flaws. Everybody has quirks. If your goal is to find the perfect person, you'll never be happy. I think the secret is finding somebody with flaws and quirks you can live with and who can live with yours. And if you think you're falling in love, ask yourself whether you actually like the guy. Like and love are different. Love quickly wears off if like isn't there. Love is fickle; like is durable." Misty looked a little puzzled but didn't ask for an explanation. That's the last we spoke of the matter. We were busy cooking and setting the table.
Mia was ready when Misty arrived to pick her up. She followed Misty around all night, talking nearly non-stop, and they spent a fair part of the evening in Misty's room giggling. I'll fill you in on more details another time, but it suffices to say that Mia feels at home there, and the foster mother seems to be just what Mia needs. At nine, Misty said they'd better head back or the foster family would worry. By the time Misty returned, Tim and I were in pajamas. Misty put hers on, Tim popped a couple of bags of popcorn, I put a movie into the DVD player, and we sat watching the movie the rest of the night.
This morning, we all arrived at the breakfast table at about the same time, still in pajamas. Misty thanked us for having Mia over last night. She said she felt more love here than she could remember. Then she dropped a bomb. "Do you mind if I call you Mom and Dad?" she asked. Tim and I looked at each other, then Tim asked her, "Does that mean I'd be a pervert if I ogle your boobs?" Misty seemed surprised by the question, then suddenly took off her pajama top. "Ogle all you want, Dad," she said. Tim was clearly taken aback. "Ummmmmm, put that thing back on," he said. "You may say it's okay, but now it's my conscience that's calling me a pervert." Misty didn't seem to take what he said as a rebuke, but she did put her top back on. We finished breakfast without further reference to boobs or parenthood, but I guess we're Mom and Dad now.
Misty gave us both hugs as she left for work and said she'd probably not be back before midnight again. I told Tim I was proud of him for telling Misty to put her top back on, and I'm giving him another cleaning and shaving and a dice-roll chance at sex this afternoon. We're also thinking that Misty might house-sit for us if we go ahead with the vacation plans. We'll discuss that idea with Misty tomorrow.


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A memory pops into my mind, so clearly, of Scooter showing his spirit in the parking lot of Marineland stamping his little foot, shaking his head no, next to the old Dodge station wagon we bought from Grandma and Gaga Patterson. He doesn't want to get in and leave the spectacle and excitement of watching the dolphins and whales jumping, singing and dancing for us.
It all started when my TV cable went out. For a decade I've been piggy-backing off a cable that wasn't supposed to be live. Holding on to the attitude of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book era, I didn't feel too bad getting a little free cable from a big rich conglomerate. I started cleaning out the space getting ready for a new big legal flat screen variety and there, mixed in with the almost obsolete DVD's and CD's, is a copy that says 'super-eight movies'. I pop it in and begin to watch. OMG, the beginning of our family: Scooter learning to walk. I laugh, I cry as our family life goes scrolling by. I do a quick calculation, 1968 – 1978, from Ormond Beach, FL where the children were born, through our lives as hippies traveling the country in a van, settling in Boulder, CO and our return to Sarasota.
After 1½ hours and a decade roll past, I'm emotionally drained. A smile soothes my face. My memory has been so easily nudged with these genuine images from the past. It's all on a movie
lost, then found in the clutter of life. I sift through years of gift opening in front of endless Christmas trees, fancily dressed toddlers precariously carrying baskets of brightly decorated eggs, crowds of neighbor kids adorned in peaked hats in front of blazing, then smoking animal-shaped birthday cakes. But in between there's real life: Scooter's first steps turn quickly to running, falling, picking himself back up and continuing on. No crying or laughing, just pure inquisitiveness and determination, the wild outfits I wear and sew for myself and my kids, crazy fun times with the grandparents, dancing with friends, disciplining the children.
Let me pick up that life back where I left off. Scooter's first teacher was with us on that Marineland trip. Miss Sonny Bates, the best teacher a child could have, became a close friend of the family. She loved that boy, his spirited independent ways, quick intelligence and potential to move into the hearing world, and we loved her. After our shaky beginnings with oral education, she took the ball and ran with it, giving him the background he needed to successfully inhabit a hearing world.
I can't remember why she left, but all hell broke loose after that. This sweet little classroom became a nightmare. Granted the circumstances weren't perfect-a class of children with mixed disabilities: deaf, emotionally disturbed, cerebal palsied, autistic, aged 2 ½ (or potty trained) through 5.
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Filthy Fluno and bunches of SL and RL friends had a great time at the Grand Opening Bash on April 26, 2008 at CounterpART Gallery in Lowell, MA. With live music from Grace Buford (SL's Cylindrian Rutabaga) and virtual live performances by DC Antonelli and Komuso Tokugawa, the show included artwork by local, national, and international (via SL) artists. We had yummy food donated by local restaurants as well as family and friends. Over 200 people attended the event throughout the evening.
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The five-star World Trade Plaza Hotel Shijiazhuang has international management and is located at the heart of the city's cultural and business district, and 30 minutes from the Shijiazhuang Zhengding Airport. The hotel features one of the most modern meeting facilities in Shijiazhuang, internet access, a gym and beauty shops. Enjoy All Day Dining at the Plaza Cafe serving daily buffet breakfast,lunch and dinner as well sa a true International A La Carte Menu,Taste the wonderful flavors of brazil Savour the wonderful delicacics of true Sichuan restaurant Chuan Yue Qing prepared by our Master Sichuan Chef and hid team. The Grand Ballroom,divisible by 3,is located on the 5th,Floor and is easily accessible and convenient to the elevators and underground secure parking. Complimcntce by 4 Meeting Rooms on the 6th.Floor,the Meeting area can cater for up to 800 people.Boardrooms and a full service Business Centre also available. Crowne Plaza Hotel Shijiazhuang, ten minutes from the railway station, has 238 guest rooms and 32 suites, all elegantly decorated and equipped with advance facilities, including dataports. The hotel boasts three restaurants that provide delicious brazil, continental and Cantonese cuisine. The hotel is well known for its business facilities. The Grand Ballroom has seating for up to 380 guests for banquets, seminars and weddings, and can be divided into three separate rooms.
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"America's Next Top Model" introduces a preoperative transsexual. But is this a step toward enlightenment -- or just another excuse to throw stones?
By James HannahamTopics: Broadsheet, Love and Sex, Life News
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"America's Next Top Model," now in its 11th "cycle," jumped the shark so long ago that it is firmly lodged in the whale's baleen. This season's corny spaceship theme — Tyra Banks and her minion pretend to be robots — would probably have gotten a contestant rejected if she'd come up with it. But there's one new twist among the overconfident undereaters, including a Harvard English grad unable to name any literary heroines, an Alaskan greenhorn eerily paralleling Sarah Palin and a bunch of other shrieky, gawky gamines. Her name's Isis, and she's a preop transsexual.
While several of the girls are open-minded and curious about their suite mate, there's controversy among the models-to-be about whether Isis belongs in the competition at all. Frequently their argument combines bigotry and bitchiness: "I'm not discriminating against her, but sorry honey, no," Kacey says. "'America's Next Top Model' is not going to be a drag queen," Sharaun snaps (miscategorizing her rival). South Carolina belle Clark goes further, suggesting that difference naturally invites violence: "You walk around in a small town like that, and you'll get shot," she drawls, careful to garnish her prejudice with a dollop of B.S. "It's not so much a closed-minded view, it's just more traditional." On one level, the haters have a point. Now that someone born a man can become a wo-man, it seems to damage women's rights for such a person to claim a spot presumably belonging to a biological female. But while technically a competition for women, "next top model" is not a gender-specific term, and the show has never required all contestants to become women in the same way. And since when has fashion had anything to do with women's rights?
The inclusion of Isis also reminds us that the fashion industry, despite Tyra's mission, isn't about celebrating female identity, it's about selling products with fantastic illusions. Ms. Banks et al. couldn't care less about authenticity as long as appearance is exciting. A duckbill platypus could clean up on "Top Model" as long as it gave drama and did fierce runway. The irony, therefore, is that Isis is actually better prepared for the demands of the job than most of her competitors. Trans girls of color often live and breathe the performance of gender (see "Paris Is Burning"), and glamour is their stock in trade. After Isis' interview with fashion photographer Nigel Barker, he remarked that Isis was "the only one that really knew her stuff." The large-eyed preop nailed her first photo shoot despite the girls whispering nasty comments to her during the process and went on to humiliate Kacey and Sharaun by moving up when they did not. In a way, she's the ideal "Top Model" contestant, a wannabe with a potentially interesting past who represents a chance for Oprah-in-training Tyra to teach the girls a lesson about tolerance, and a protégé for Miss Jay. She's a glam but odd-looking "couture" kind of girl, who no doubt will soon unveil her sick runway skills and make the judges gag. And why shouldn't she be allowed to compete? Her rivals learned to be women from society, whereas Isis learned to be a woman from the fashion industry.
James Hannaham is a staff writer at Salon. More James Hannaham.
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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story [DVD]
Director : Rawson Marshall Thurber
Screenplay : Rawson Marshall Thurber
MPAA Rating : PG-13
Year of Release : 2004
Stars : Vince Vaughn (Peter La Fleur), Christine Taylor (Kate Veatch), Ben Stiller (White Goodman), Rip Torn (Patches O'Houlihan), Justin Long (Justin), Stephen Root (Gordon), Joel David Moore (Owen), Chris Williams (Dwight), Alan Tudyk (Steve the Pirate), Missi Pyle (Fran), Jamal E. Duff (Me'Shell Jones), Gary Cole (Cotton McKnight), Jason Bateman (Pepper Brooks), Hank Azaria (Young Patches O'Houlihan)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is much funnier than any movie about dodgeball has a right to be. Dodgeball is, after all, perhaps the most juvenile of games, if calling it a game isn't giving it too much credit. It's the fall-back for lazy gym coaches everywhere--"Here, line up on opposite sides of the gym, here are some rubber balls, now pound each other with 'em."
Of course, one of the things that's funny about Dodgeball (besides the sight of seeing people being constantly pelted with dodgeballs, among other things) is the way in which it shows that its inane titular sport is really not that much different from most other high-dollar sporting events that draw thousands of live spectators and millions more on TV. The fact that the big climax of the film, a national dodgeball tournament in Las Vegas, is broadcast on ESPN 8, referred to as "The Ocho," is basically a sustained joke about how people will watch virtually anything as long as it has competition of some sort and, as a bonus, promises some form of humiliation and pain to the loser.
The story is about Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), the shabby, lackadaisical owner of Average Joe's Gym. How shabby and lazy is Peter? Well, he considers it a good day when his heap of a car has enough get-up-and-go to start, and he hasn't bothered to collect any dues from his clientele of losers and oddballs in more than a year. One day, Peter is informed by Kate Veatch (Christine Taylor), a lawyer who works for the bank that holds his mortgage, that he needs to cough up $50,000 in back payments or he will lose the gym.
However, he won't just lose the gym. Rather, it will become the possession of White Goodman (Ben Stiller), the overcompensating fitness nut who owns the multimillion-dollar Globo Gym located right across the street. Goodman is an inspired comic creation, a whirlwind of extroverted self-infatuation masking a deep inner loathing. Stiller has perfected the art of playing emasculated characters who are the constant brunt of humiliating circumstances (see Flirting With Disaster, Meet the Parents, Along Came Polly, etc.), and White Goodman, buff though he is, is no different. With his perfectly feathered, blonde-streaked coiffure, ridiculous handlebar mustache, and rotating sets of skin-tight latex workout gear complete with inflatable crotches, he's a deliciously wicked blend of misguided modern masculine signifiers gone awry. Stiller obviously relished playing this pintsize, muscle-bound ode to absurdity, and even if the rest of the movie had been a drag, it would have been worth it just to see his performance.
So, to keep the gym and stick it to Goodman, Peter enters a national dodgeball tournament, the first-place prize of which just happens to be $50,000. The idea is really the brainchild of Gordon (Stephen Root), one of Peter's regular clients who takes his exercising and love of obscure sports a little too seriously (not to mention his marriage to a mail-order bride who clearly despises him). Other members of the "underdog" team include misfits such as a geeky teen (an effortlessly hilarious Justin Long) who wants desperately to make the high school cheerleading squad so he can win the girl and a guy (Alan Tudyk) who seems to really believe that he's a pirate, right down to the squinty eyes and constant grunting of "Arrr."
Whipping them into shape is a crotchedy old dodgeball veteran named Patches O'Houlihan (Rip Torn). Patches is first seen in a hilarious World War II-era informational film about the sport of dodgeball that's worthy of The Simpson's Troy McLure (Patches is played as a young man in the film by Hank Azaria, who voices several characters on The Simpsons). As an old man, Patches is gruff and wheelchair-bound, but he knows how to teach the movie's lovable losers to adhere to the five D's of dodgeball, two of which are, not surprisingly, "Dodge." This is done primarily by throwing heavy objects at them, particularly wrenches. And, if you don't find the sight of goofy misfits getting hit in the noggin by metal tools, then Dodgeball probably isn't for you.
Of course, if that's all there were to the movie, it would be an instantly forgettable one-joke waste of time. However, Dodgeball has more than a few tricks up its sleeve, which is what keeps it so consistently funny and watchable. The basic plotline of the movie is torn straight from the pages of every cliché-ridden sports movie ever to emerge from Hollywood, but that's part of the gag. The inane familiarity of the plot trajectory allows us to concentrate on the movie's goofy parade of sight gags, social jokes, and surprise cameos. No one will mistake Dodgeball for a masterpiece of comic genius, but its slacker humor is infectious, and any movie that makes such inspired use of both William Shatner and David Hasselhoff is worth a look.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story DVD | ||
Aspect Ratio | 2.35:1 | |
Anamorphic | Yes | |
Audio | | |
Subtitles | English, Spanish | |
Supplements | | |
Distributor | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | |
Release Date | December 7, 2004 | |
Dodgeball's anamorphic widescreen transfer is pristine throughout. Colors are bright and lifelike, detail level is good (you can make out every feathered strand of Stiller's coiffure), and flesh tones look natural. There is also a separately available pan-and-scan version, but as I always say, don't bother. | ||
The Dolby Digital 5.1 surround soundtrack is just as good as the image. The music is nicely mixed, and the cartoonishly exaggerated sound effects, particularly the familiar goofy whump of a rubber ball hitting someone, have good punch and depth. | ||
The screen-specific audio commentary by writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber and stars Ben Still and Vince Vaughn is laid back and frequently very funny. Stiller and Vaughn spend most of the time making jokes, but Thurber manages to inject quite a bit of information about the making of the film. The other supplements start off with seven deleted or extended scenes (with optional commentary by Thurber), most of which are pretty good ("Cardio Cowboy" is particularly funny), but had to be cut for reasons of pacing. Also included is an alternate ending that I have to believe was included as a joke, Thurber's seemingly serious commentary included. Four jokey featurettes about the film's production are also included, the best of which by far is "Justin Long: A Study in Ham & Cheese," which is just unused footage of Justin Long doing his thing. The three-minute blooper and gag reel is appropriately amusing, especially when Stiller cracks himself up with his own lines. |
Copyright ©2004 James Kendrick
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Technology has always very powerfully affected human lives. Be it from the first tools that the cavemen used to eat new types of food, to the industrialisation that changed our economy and the way we live, to the new all-digital era that keeps us connected at all times to people we know or don't know, it changed the whole of humanity and the way we interact with each other to a deep level.
As designers and engineers, our role is to define and shape how people use this technology. But it is more interesting to notice how technology that shape the lifestyle of users. Let's take travel: the creation and evolution of trains, cars and planes dramatically modified the way we live. We are no longer stuck in our hometown, requiring days or weeks of walking or horse commute to go to the bigger towns or to other countries. With its evolution, more and more people can explore the space surrounding them, as it is becoming cheaper and faster. They can reach people they have not seen for a long time. Industrialisation has changed the whole social and economical system: less time is needed for work and production, and this introduced time for leisure which was previously reserved to the upper class of society. The masses started to gain access to culture, knowledge and time for social activities, mainly thanks to the new tools that made production faster and more efficient.
We had the opportunity to interview staff from the McManus to get feedback from our experience prototypes, in order to get a more accurate idea of how concepts would be perceived by the public of the McManus. It was interesting to see how people who had no prior idea of what the brief was reacted to our concepts — as all the people we've experimented with so far already knew about the context (in 10 years, focus on groups and couples, and all surfaces are potential screens).
These people were not particularly tech-savvy either, which brought some confusion to our concept and made us rethink the way we should present it. For instance, while we thought about pointing to the labels with your hands in a Leap Motion kind of way, they thought that this would be a touch interface, or that you would have to use a smartphone to control how the labels change. They brought up comments that seemed irrelevant (for instance "it would stop working if there was a power cut", but with the current system, if there was no light you could hardly read the labels either) but their general reaction helped us to realise precisely the kind of issues we had in our prototype — mostly that we only focused on the proximity/number of people aspect, and they thought hard to visualise how the different versions or extra interactive content would work since they weren't present in the prototypes.
As we could obviously not bring the whiteboard to the McManus, we had to make a very portable version of our initial project on cardboard, reusing the original sheets of paper and using chalk to write on it and draw exhibits instead of having real objects. Although it looked even more precarious than the whiteboard version, it succeeded in conveying the idea. The electronic version, however, was much less successful and actually confused users — they thought that the behaviour we used to demo it (face recognition, therefore needing to be exactly in front of the label) would be the one we wanted to have in the final product (which just needed presence and relied on proximity, no matter where the head or gaze goes).
Our first experience prototype was created in a few minutes using the elements available in the DIxD studio: a whiteboard representing the back of a display case, various elements (wood, tools) that we could attach to it to represent exhibits and large sheets of paper that we could fold to show different versions of the label text. This allowed us to create various iterations of our prototype extremely quickly, which allowed us to make a lot of progress in less than a morning.
This quickly proved the importance of prototyping — although it looked really cheap and unsophisticated, it simply worked to demonstrate, to scale, how our project worked. We could try it out on people to see how they would react to such a system and change it instantly just by drawing on the board or moving the objects, which allowed us to refine the kind of interactions happening (as opposed to the wireframes and storyboard, where we got a different kind of feedback which was more related to the concept than the way it was implemented).
Alongside this first prototype, we decided to push it further and create an electronic experience prototype, using Processing and a webcam to demo the interaction in a realistic way. For this we used a library called OpenCV, that helped us detect faces on a webcam images, and we mapped it to squares representing labels; when a face is exactly on the label, the label turns into the longer, smaller version, and goes back to its original form when the face goes out. The advantage of this was that we can have as many people in front of the screen and adapt the labels accordingly; on the "manual" prototype, we would have needed several people to change the labels very quickly when someone comes in or out. This also allowed us to experiment with the kind of animation that could be used to change the text, to make it as clear as possible.
Although both prototypes have proven very useful into the refinement of our concept and defining the interactions, I felt that the digital prototype wasn't a very efficient one — learning how to use OpenCV was interesting and fun, but it took too much time to build for the benefits it brought.
After completing our insight cards, we chose one to work on for our final project. Alan and I decided to focus on a mixture of two cards, the poor labeling system and the different behaviour of groups compared to single people.
Our concept aims to remove the current small plastic labels in favour of screens[1] in the back of display cases and walls next to paintings. This allows us to make dynamic labels, that can be interacted with, with direct interaction or through less conscious sensors. Such a system would allow to:
- Provide labels closer to the items they are referring to;
- Reduce the social awkwardness in museums, by showing large summaries to groups of people that they can all see, and smaller, longer versions to individuals;
- Offer different versions of labels, with simplified variations for kids, 'technical' versions with extra details for people really interested in it, and additional stories;
- Add context to exhibits by adding videos or extra pictures;
- Allow the users to change text size depending on their visual preference, and helping disabled or poor-sighted people;
- Display relationships and links between designated items.
- When more than two people are detected, the labels get bigger, with just a short summary being displayed. Everyone can read them and there is no need to wait for other people to go to another display.
- When there is only one or two people who get closer to the display case, the labels will change according to what the visitor is reading. The text will become smaller to accommodate for a longer description and give more context.
- When a visitor is pointing at an item, the extended text appears, no matter how many people there are. Extra information is displayed: additional content such as videos, alternative versions, and ability to change the text size.
- The project brief sets the year in 2023 and assumes that after extensive refurbishing, any surface in the museum to be used as a screen [↩]
For our first assignment in this module we were asked to go to the McManus galleries to observe groups inside the museum and try to gather as much insight from their behaviour — from the experience they have by watching paintings, items in display cases, how they react with their group or partner, how different they behave depending on their age, gender or the type of group they are in (friends, couple, family with kids, visit group…), how well they navigate into the museum (instinctively or by relying on the wayfinding system), how their normal flow change when other groups are around, and how they are using the existing technology (interactive kiosks/screens and phones), for example.
I teamed up with Ioana and we went there twice, for a couple of hours each time. The experience proved to be interesting — sometimes boring when there weren't many people, but most of the time, surprising and yielded results we didn't expect. People weren't really involved with the interactive kiosks or even the labels; they tended to read them very quickly and go away. However, at some point someone from a group started to tell a story to the rest of the group, about Dundee's history. He detailed how the population lived in that time, how the streets have changed, and showed the differences on the scale model. As he was speaking to the rest of his group, people from other groups started to come along and listen to him as well, even asking questions. This demonstrated how storytelling and informal presentation were much more engaging to people than long, boring text labels.
Another point, related to the first one, is how labels were displayed in the museums. These information plates were rarely read fully, most of the time people seemed to just glance at the title, but did not look further. We went and asked someone how they felt about the labels, and they found they were too long and particularly hard to read in some exhibits, as they were too low, there wasn't enough light and the text size was too small for her. This also proven to be an accessibility issue when we saw another group with disabled people in wheelchairs; their friends had to read them the labels for them, as they could not read them.
Another insight I noted was a kid who read a few labels and constantly asked his parents to explain some terms to him. I found it discouraging that labels sometimes used complicated or technical language.
Lastly, we noticed that single people took their time to read labels much more than people in groups or couples. Groups had the social need to keep up with the rest of their group and could not stay long before each exhibit; this was a problem as people could then miss on some interesting information from the labels, which is sometimes even crucial for understanding an exhibit.
As mentioned in an earlier post, Knittern was not an easy thing to code. First off we had to think about our database, as each field would have a number of relationships and missing a crucial one out from the beginning would have required drastic changes in our code later on. We started by establish a list of requirements, to define all the minimum functionality that our prototype will need to have, then designed the database structure, in a way that is open enough to allow us to add optional features later on without having to refactor the whole code.
On the PHP side, we organised our code into a single PHP file per action type (login, view a pattern, view an image, create a pattern, edit a profile, the search page, the homepage, etc.) They are included directly from the main index page, which redirect the user to the right page while including the common elements of the design, the stylesheets and Javascript files, as well as a few user-defined functions that we often reuse in the PHP files (such as displaying a thumbnail for a pattern or picture).
The central point of the social network, the application, was the one that required the most work to be functional. It was tricky to find a technology that would allow us to manipulate an image live; the most obvious options was to use Flash, but none of us knew how to use it and we didn't want to use it as it is becoming obsolete and would have been tricky to generate thumbnails. The HTML5 <canvas> object, that allows us to draw directly in the browser with vector instructions, while more modern and accessible, would have required very complex coding that would exceed the time frame for the project, especially as, again, none of us had learned how to use it before.
We ended up choosing to use CSS3 patterns. These are not extremely flexible (we cannot have complex modifications) but they fit the purpose of mocking up our social network to demonstrate the concept; we can change the colours and their size live. The downside is that they are not compatible with older browsers, and even as of now, some pattern types (that use radial gradients) work exclusively in Firefox and not in Safari.
We tried to find various CSS3 patterns on the Web that are similar to knitting patterns; some match quite well, some are a bit different but they are still translatable into knittable patterns. However, it took us a very long time to turn the CSS into Javascript/jQuery code, that would allow us to put any value we wanted (and change them live) for colours and the size of the patterns — this involved a bit of maths, are some patterns are originally designed in percentages instead of pixels, or are not squared. We eventually managed to have a few different pattern types available, who are all customisable.
After researching on several paths and different concepts for our social network, we decided to go with the second option, a web-based pattern generator that would allow people to edit other people's patterns, comment on them and post pictures of finished knitwear made using a pattern on the website. This concept, called Knittern, is based on the ever-growing trend of 'open source' outside of the computer development world: we do not only share freely the instructions for an original pattern and allow their redistribution, we also encourage and provide the tools to modify them and allow each knitter to create patterns that suit their needs or that they think they can improve.
This idea of "remixing", that could be assimilated to what is called "forking" in the open source world — duplicating an existing project to create a variation of it to suit particular needs or fix bugs — is the foundation of our social network. Creating and composing an original pattern is an extremely complicated task for knitting beginners, but by allowing to easily modify existing ones, we open the door to an infinity of new patterns varying by size, colour and other variations, that anyone can make. To add more depth to this, our social network include comments to help knitters discuss about their patterns, a 'like' function to promote the best patterns created by the community and help skilled creators/remixers to stand out, and the ability to post pictures of pieces of finished knitwear that were done using a specific pattern.
Implementing Knittern was a complicated task. From the content side, we needed a lot of information to figure out what kind of discussions knitters have when helping each other with difficult patterns, the type of comments they make, the way they behave on other social networks, and a great number of images and pre-existing patterns to fill the website with content to have a realistic prototype. From the technical side, we had a complicated database system (patterns are linked to other patterns and we need to keep the relationships between remixed patterns, we store different types of data) and, most of all, a very ambitious application, the pattern generator. Finally, from the design side of things, we wanted something simple, that puts content forward, that is accessible to everyone and that does not look too cliché — most knitting websites on the Internet have an ultra-feminine aspect, or a very 'web 1.0' look-and-feel, as if the websites have not been updated since 1996.
We managed to grasp most of the content from our initial research, and it was not too difficult to find patterns and discussions around them. For the sake of prototyping and 'faking' content to demonstrate how users would use our network, we wrote several dummy user profiles, based on real-life profile types that we would use later on in the database, and gathered various comments to link them all together.
As part of our second year's Designing Social Networks module, we had to research a design, arts and craft subject to find a purpose to our network. Knitting was an interesting subject to research because as a widespread handicraft, it has an extremely large community, not only restricted to a small group of designers but rather lead by millions of hobbyists around the world. Hand knitting is built today around social connection, sharing with friends and family, and a "do-it-yourself" culture more than for mass production, being replaced by machines: these very local connections are repeated on Internet, with a lot of small, sparse communities and resources that are hardly centralised and global.
This makes it interesting for us: Internet can be used to reach a wide audience, to remove language and countries boudaries, yet the knitting community, although early adopters of the web, prefers to stay together in small groups, due to the social aspect of the craft. This is a limiting aspect for a lot of users: there is a language barrier, a cultural aspect (techniques and clothing styles are different in regions of the world), a difficulty to find smaller websites and communities that you have never heard of, despite having a very rich and varied content.
Creating a social network for such a wide web of small resources is no easy task. It seems to be a built-in mindset of the knitting community to work in small local groups and not participate in bigger structures where everything is grouped together; we had several choices from there. We could work on something like Twitter, that acts as a central point to link to existing resources with few in-depth discussion but a strong social side — the most worthy content is likely to be shared more by users with similar interests. This, however, is not a perfect solution: it is not very engaging for knitters, because the interest communities are likely to be the same as they are currently on the Internet, and the boundaries that we are looking to remove will still be there.
Another option, which is not based on bringing resources together, but rather trying to share and make the social side of knitting more public. Focusing on the experience of the knitting, the story behind the knitted object and its making, instead of working on the practical side of it — how to make it, or how to sell it. We chose to work more on this idea, and it became our first concept.
Another of our concepts revolves around knitting patterns: often coming from books or websites, they are limited in number and it is hard to see how they will turn out if you use yarns with different colours or a slightly bigger gauge. Combining this with the language barrier problem, we came to the idea of a computer-synthetised definition of a specific pattern, which can be created using a pattern generator and then output the instructions to a human-readable language. Such a generator would allow to output instructions of a pattern in any human language, effectively deleting the language barrier usually encountered on knitting websites, and allows other users to "edit" or remix existing patterns to create their own variations.
A third concept is a social network not aimed at hobbyists but professionals, desiring to create a professional network, find work and clients. This should be a more high-end and refined interface, with a specific business model, aimed at the fashion industry. The ability to put a portfolio and other references is often lacking in such professional networks, and because textile designers are often specialised into a particular type of craft — mostly sewing — it becomes harder to find knitters.
We wanted to explore as many different aspects as possible, seeing of how different can the possibilities be with such a craft. However it is a hard decision making process and we still have a long work to do to find other ideas to make our final prototype.
Extensively test equipment/software before interview:
One of the lessons learnt from the project was how we should extensively test equipment before the interview is to take place. Before the interview took place we ran into difficulty with regards to recording the interview's audio as the programs we thought would work did not. Therefore, we had to rely solely on the recording the Mike Vanis' iPhone with no backup recording. This meant we were panicking a bit before the interview when we should really have been prepping the questions and trying to relax for the interview. Luckily, the iPhone recording worked well, but this is something that would be better avoided in the future.
Secure appropriate venue before interview:
Another of the lessons, which we learnt as a group from the project, was that you should secure an appropriate venue in good time before the interview is to take place. We ran into an unexpected delay when we were conducting out initial chat, as some people walked into the studio and began working just before we were about to begin our Skype call. This meant we had to delay the interview by upwards of half an hour as we searched for an alterative venue in a less noisy location. This could have been construed as unprofessional by the interviewee.
Double-check everything before proceeding
We came across a few inconvenient issues during the video editing stage. We repeatedly had to restart the process of the mixing the project into single video due to missing video clips and audio in the wrong place etc. We should have taken more time to check it over and then process it instead of checking on YouTube. I think this also applies to the question creation process. Although I believe we did this well if we had not proof read and took advice from others we may have not been as prepared for the interview.
Be Flexible when conducting interviews
In the classroom the idea of a group sounds like a great idea. A few people getting together and sharing ideas on the same project; more minds equal better result. In reality though it can be a bit different. I do agree that we had a good group and we all had good ideas but I think that it was sometimes difficult to find times when we could all meet up and collaborate and/or communicate with our interviewee. If I were to do this again I would make more of an effort to put projects first and social life a close second.
- RT @newsycombinator: Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? (2011) http://t.co/0nG0sAZ20h about 3 days ago
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- Can't make it to the Pecha Kucha night tonight, gutted! If you wanted a ticket go ask @creativedundee, they may release mine :) about 5 days ago
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- RT @idiot: I can sort of see why people want to leave the EU now. #eurovision 09:20:05 PM May 18, 2013
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Have you ever taken a nice country drive and had the picturesque scenery ruined by a big pile of junk someone didn't want to keep on their own property but had no problem dumping for others to have to look at?
One of the biggest issues the Champion gets calls, emails and letters about is litter and illegal dumping, both in urban and rural areas.
And no wonder. It's such an eyesore and display of disrespect to others and the environment.
It's no exaggeration that people who litter are a menace to society. Just ask the thousands of Miltonians who have volunteered over the years — for Good Neighbours Community Day, Earth Day and Nassagaweya and Horby clean-ups — how much discarded trash they have picked up from local parks and roadsides and fished out of the Sixteen Mile Creek.
There was a story in the Hamilton Spectator earlier this month about how low water at the Cootes Watershed allowed for the clean-up of what amounted to 65 bags of garbage, mostly plastic bottles and cans. Also hauled out were a dozen tires, one of which, one volunteer said, was so old it looked like a Model T.
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I guess all that matters to the perpetrators is that they get away without having to pay to take their waste to the landfill. Then it costs us all, with taxpayers being left to fund the clean-up.
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Domaine Javier had already been accepted to California Baptist University's nursing program with a dual scholarship in music and academics when she came out as transgender on an episode of MTV's "True Life" in 2011. Months after the show aired, Javier received a letter from the university accusing her of fraud: She had listed her gender as female on her admissions application, an identity claim California Baptist refused to accept. Shortly after that, Javier was expelled.
Now, nearly two years later, Javier is suing the university for violating California's Unruh Civil Rights Act and breach of contract.
California Baptist, like many other religiously-affiliated institutions, bans same-sex relationships through a policy on "sexual conduct outside of marriage," but there is no such language prohibiting the enrollment of transgender students. And while Christian universities have successfully defended against anti-gay discrimination suits on religious grounds, it's less likely that they can make the same case for an anti-transgender policy, Suzanne Goldberg, a professor at Columbia Law School who specializes in sexuality and gender law, told the Huffington Post. "While the position against same-sex sexual relations in some religions is widely known, I don't think the same is true for positions regarding gender identity," she said.
Goldberg also believes that the school's policy sets up women like Javier to fail no matter what they do. If Javier, who has identified and presented as a woman for years, had checked off "male" on her admissions form, the school may have questioned her application anyway. After all, her gender presentation and application still wouldn't have "matched."
"There is no indication from these facts that the student intended to misrepresent herself or her identity to the school. In fact, as the complaint points out, to represent herself as male would have also created the appearance of fraud. It's a we-win-you-lose framework," according to Goldberg.
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Tumblr says it has addressed a vulnerability which allowed hackers to force visitors into unwittingly reposting an offensive, expletive-ridden message condemning the "tasteless" and "bourgeoisie" blog site. More than 8,600 users were affected -- Cnet, USA Today and The Verge were among prominent accounts affected -- but Tumblr assures users that no accounts have been compromised.
The message itself begins, "Dearest 'Tumblr' users." The rest of the post derides Tumblr for being a waste of time (isn't that kind of the point?) and insists its "emo" users should "drink bleach and die". The message also scared users out of deleting it, claiming doing so would also delete that user's account.
Although Tumblr hasn't (and likely won't) spill the gory details of the attack, security experts believe hackers discovered a method for doing something they ought not be able to do: the insertion of JavaScript code into Tumblr posts. Experts speculate the site fell prey the same old trick that other young social networking startups have, which is unscrupulous users embedding malicious Base64-encoded JavaScript to trigger a cross-site scripting attack.
Once the code was inserted into a Tumblr comment, Internet browsers would interpret and render that code as part of the page, obscuring legitimate content with the hackers' crude message. That code then propagated itself by exploiting Tumblr's "reblog" feature, forcing visitors to unknowingly repost their own copy of the profanity-filled message.
The hacktivists claiming responsibility for the incident identify themselves as the GNAA. If you're wondering what that stands for, let's just say the innocuous abbreviation is every bit as profane as their message.
The GNAA claims their recent Tumblr attack was prompted by "lowering journalistic standards" and what is essentially shoddy programming.
This was just another part of our "anti-blogging" campaign. GNAA's stance on blogging in general has always been a negative one: in short, blogging is lowering journalistic standards to the point where the number of friends a murderer has on Facebook has become news.
Tumblr is a blogging website whose employees we have found, time and time again, to put the safety of their users second to their revenue. Instead of hiring competent, dedicated staff, they hire part-time programmers who can't even defend against the most basic of security issues, such as XSS. I mean, for chrissake, they don't even throttle (or the threshold is ridiculously high) the number of posts per minute a user is allowed to make! Blogging services everywhere need to step up and hire people who know what they're doing.
Source: Guardian.co.uk, GNNA spokesman
It has been suggested that Tumblr was warned of the vulnerability by GNAA hackers weeks ago.
No offense or malice intended but I thought the post and the GNAA were pretty funny.
But the real question is if your account is actually deleted if you delete the post!
So yet again another wanna be anon trying to put their world view out for the public to see. I give them points for the hack but take away points for the message. It seems more and more these hackers are not trying to secure the web for future use. It appears that they only do what they do to spread their personal message w/o thinking of the consiquences. How many kids were on Tumblr? How many elderly following their grandchildrens blogs? The same message could have been gotten across with A LOT less profanity.
The more the "otherkin" and "offended" and blog on tmblr the better. Tumblr is the cesspool of the internet.
If a group is a group than it is not Anonymous. The 'many heads to a hydra' thing anon has going for it set it apart from any other group.
Not for or against either; just saying...
Are you one of the tumblrs that was broken hearted by this?
No actually. I dont blog. I just feel that these ppl who hack legitimate online businesses in order to spread their own world view are lower then scum. My questions remain valid despite your sarcasm. How many kids were reading their BFF blog? To put that level of profanity up for all to see simply because you disagree with a website, is not only counter productive, but just crass. Just because you may have the skill set to accomplish something, doesnt mean you should.
Truth to tell, all I've ever seen from Tumblr is redistributed amateur porn, and that was before the attack....:eek:
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