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People I thought about today

16 Mar 2009 in Briefly Noted by Alex | 1 comment

“Erik Spangler”:http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/user_page.pl?url=espangler (composer/DJ)

“Clay Spinuzzi”:http://locus.cwrl.utexas.edu/spinuzzi/ (professor and author of a “book I want to read”:http://www.amazon.com/Network-Theorizing-Knowledge-Work-Telecommunications/dp/0521895049/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207878172&sr=8-7 but don’t have US$80 to shell out to buy it)

“Elizabeth Rata”:http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/education/about/schools/crstie/staff/educationstudystaff/elizabethrata.cfm (Maori academic)

“Thorim”:http://www.wowwiki.com/Thorim_(tactics) (Titan boss)

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People, Books, Software

01 Sep 2008 in Briefly Noted by Alex | No comments

“Matt Sharritt”:http://www.situatedgaming.com studies video games.

“Bernard Levinson”:http://www.amazon.com/Deuteronomy-Hermeneutics-Innovation-Bernard-Levinson/dp/0195152883/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220217346&sr=1-2 studies the hermeneutics of legal innovation in Deutoronomy.

Two Quicken replacements for Mac are “iBank”:http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibank/ and “MoneyDance”:http://moneydance.com/. “Sente”:http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/site/introduction.html manages your library.

“Geoff Eley has a reader on Nationalism”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0195096614/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link from the mid-90s that is… well… very mid-90s.

I am not the only one thinking about “the ethical issues of social impact assessment”:http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a902020273~db=all?jumptype=alert&alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

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More people and presses on gaming

27 Jul 2008 in games, mmogs, etc. by Alex | No comments

“McFarland Publishing”:http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/ has a really fascinating list, including volumes like “The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Autor”:http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-2822-9 and “two”:http://www.gamingcultures.com/ “volumes”:http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2832-5 by “J. Patrick Williams”:http://www.jpatrickwilliams.net/. I will have to try to get ahold of some of this stuff…

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