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A history of matching tile games by Jesper Juul – This article aims to write the history of a video game genre. The genre is that of matching tile games, video games where the object of the player is to manipulate tiles on a grid in order to create matches. For a few years, the […]
MAKE will be @ Akihabara Tuesday 11/20 – also known as “electric town” this area is home to hundreds of shops with gadgets, robots, parts and more – we’ll post photos as we tour the area – Link. If you’re in Japan send us an email and we’ll we figure out a meeting time and […]
EnKoreMakeup shows us how to re-compress your eyeshadow once you’ve cracked or shattered it (by dropping it, traveling with it, etc.) in this fantastic and extremely detailed two-part tutorial. I rarely wear makeup, but even I can get into this! – [via] Part one: Link, Part two: Link.
Etsy seller Vital sells these decals for your potty. Among my favorites are this little plug-pulling man, a puffer fish, and a diver. – [via] Link.
Windell at Evil Mad Scientist writes: Hanukkah in particular has been a festival of lights for more than a dozen centuries longer than there have been lights on Christmas trees. History notwithstanding, Hanukkah still lags behind Christmas in the transition from traditional light sources like candles towards microcontroller driven arrays of LEDs. While that may […]
Eric Gradman, who brought us the awesome Trash 80 bluetooth “prank,” has posted a Flickr set for his cool MAME gaming system house inside of an IKEA dining table. IKEA MAME Dinner Table – [via] Link Related: Bluetoothing a Trash 80 – Link IKEA coffee table with recessed planter and LED light – Link
The “NORDLICHT BLITZ PLAY” (Blitz Play Hero III) is an urban game that reads its boundaries from embedded RF transmitters scattered around the city and receivers in mobile devices carried by players. When the devices receive data from the city nodes, they create sounds that are played back on modified Nintendo DS game systems while […]
