Archive for the ‘Play’ Category

No brown M&Ms

Posted on Wednesday 17th June 2009 under Play by

Randomly browsing, I found the legendary Van Halen rider,  posted on The Smoking Gun. Yes, the “no brown M&Ms” line is there, and intriguingly a requirement that forks are not plastic and have four prongs. Did Eddie Van Halen have some terrible two-prong fork related accident as a child?

Pandora to limit availability to US listeners?

Posted on Thursday 3rd May 2007 under Play by

Typical – I discover the Pandora Internet radio site only to find that they are going to limit access to US listeners only. It’s SO clever in the way that it uses the Music Genome Project to identify probable likes and dislikes – my only complaint is the use of Flash for the control panel. Let’s see if they actually block it during today as threatened.

flOw

Posted on Thursday 11th January 2007 under Play by

Titled “Flow in Games” this is the game of flOw created by Jenova Chen for a thesis. On further reading it is based on work by a psychologist called Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (nope, never heard of him.)

Not only is it elegant in its simplicity, it is also a good way of passing five or ten minutes…

flOw game.