Usually when I write spontaneously here, it's because a topic or idea has been percolating in my mind for a while, and I will stumble across a reference or blog post that provides the necessary...
In case you hadn't noticed - it's the 4th anniversary of this website. Happy birthday maetl! Well maetl has really been around for much longer than that - it's just that it wasn't until 2004 when...
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or...
Really? I expected better from such a radical thinker as Jaron Lanier. His recent op-ed in the NYT is just not making any sense at all. Traditionally, artists, writers, musicians have been at...
I'll never write another novel on an electric typewriter. I'd rather use a sharp stick and a little pile of dogshit. - Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker On rereading this, and pondering...
The games industry has come to a crossroads, something that is becoming more and more apparent as I engage deeper into research for my upcoming game (more on that soon). The Guardian Games Blog has...
The writer is doubtless stricken with writers block And can thus, for weeks, vanish into a myriad of dark rooms Where conversation dangles under glistening rows of liquor. The programmer is expected...
Long overdue, perhaps more difficult than finding time, was the problem of actually having something to write inside this architecture. But finally, the format of the experiment...
From time to time we take our pen in hand And scribble symbols on a blank white sheet. Their meaning is at everyone's command; It is a game whose rules...
