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But at its most basic level, this is not about Kickstarter, and it’s not about funding creative projects, and it’s not even about the internet! IT’S ABOUT HOW PEOPLE WHO LIVE TOGETHER ON THIS PLANET SHOULD BEHAVE TOWARDS EACH OTHER.

— In Case Of Actual Death: Kickstarter, and Being Your Creative Word 

“You mean like 5 thousand?”

“No.”

“Like five hundred?”

“No, like 5.”

benbrown:

Hey Tumblr friends,

I want more people to use Make Pixel Art.  The app is selling well for the iPad, but the version we made for Mac/PC that runs inside Chrome has only sold like 5 copies.  It is sad, because the Chrome version really kicks ass and is a lot of fun to use.  And we built it so people would use it! 

So for today only, we are giving away the Chrome version!  In addition to a suite of pixel art drawing tools, unique color manipulation tools, and access to a large and growing library of reusable sprites, the full version gives you:

1. An artist profile on MakePixelArt.com
2. A way to store drawings and work on them again in the future without publishing them to the web
3. A pixel inventory system, where you can collect and build a library of pieces to create truly epic drawings.

I love pixel art, and I want to build our community of pixel art collaborators, so please snag our app today and join the low rez revolution.

makepixelart:

We’ve got a brand new set of pixels in the shop: the comic book action pak from the creators of PixelWorld, a pixel-powered comic book trivia game for the iPhone.

This pak includes 50 comic-themed reusable pixel pieces that you can mix and match in your own drawings.  These and all the other pixels in our shop are FREE TO USE within Make Pixel Art!

It’s a game that really didn’t seem to want me to be playing it, far preferring that its own characters enjoy themselves.

— Wot I Think: Modern Warfare 3 Single Player | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

The corporate drive for DRM is motivated by the fear of ebook piracy. But aside from piracy, the biggest ebook-related threat to the Big Six is called Amazon.com. Until 2008, ebooks were a tiny market segment, under 1% and easily overlooked; but in 2009 ebook sales began to rise exponentially, and ebooks now account for over 20% of all fiction sales. In some areas ebooks are up to 40% of the market and rising rapidly. (I am not making that last figure up: I’m speaking from my own sales figures.) And Amazon have got 80% of the ebook retail market.

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Cutting their own throats - Charlie’s Diary

Publishers insistence on DRM encourages Amazon’s monopoly on ebook reading/sales, which is not in publishers’ (or readers’) long term interests.

Similar thing happened with Apple/iPod/iTunes, which led to less DRM on music eventually.

48pixeles:

Pokemon

Dakota (by adammathes)

dakotasmith: man your new version of aim is really chatty about it!
Adam Mathes: is it?
dakotasmith: adammathes is using a new version of AIM that stores conversation history so they can see their chats wherever they're signed into AIM (desktop, mobile, aim.com). If you don't want your messages stored, you can ask adammathes to take the conversation "off the record" or use the new AIM so you can do so yourself. Visit preview.aim.com/.faq for more information.
Adam Mathes: i tried and turned it off
dakotasmith: yes.
Adam Mathes: whoa
dakotasmith: i know!
Adam Mathes: how do i opt out of that?
Adam Mathes: geez
Adam Mathes: lovely

“The current policy of lending plus austerity will lead to social unrest,” Mr. Connolly told investors and policy makers at a conference held this spring in Los Angeles by the Milken Institute, arguing the case that Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain could not simply cut their way to recovery.

“And one should not forget that of the four countries we are talking about, all have had civil wars, fascist dictatorships and revolutions. That is history,” he concluded, his voice rising above the chortles and gasps coming from the audience and the Europeans on his panel. “And that is the future if this malignant lunacy of monetary union is pursued and crushes these countries into the ground.”

—  Bernard Connolly, The Rise of a Euro Doomsayer - NYTimes.com

Shonen Jump, the popular manga anthology geared to teenage boys, will switch to a weekly digital edition beginning in January 2012.

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Shonen Jump Goes All-Digital in 2012 | GeekDad | Wired.com

$26/year for the most popular Manga in the world, 2 weeks (rather than months or years) behind the Japanese releases. Brilliant.

DC and Marvel have nothing competitive and should. Their product lines are incomprehensible, with tons of titles for popular characters and crossovers. There is no simple “subscribe to this for $30 to get the best of Marvel on an iPad” or even a digital “I want to read Batman comics for $20/year” offering that is compelling.

HAD JARVIS WRITTEN his book as self-parody—as a cunning attack on the narrow-mindedness of new media academics who trade in pronouncements so pompous, ahistorical, and vacuous that even the nastiest of post-modernists appear lucid and sensible in comparison—it would have been a remarkable accomplishment. But alas, he is serious. This is a book that should have stayed a tweet.

— The Internet Intellectual

IT IS NOT ALWAYS EASY. Ro has a thing for reality shows involving fashion, I basically just want to keep watching the episode where Buffy’s mom dies, over and over and over again forever.

— I know you and Ro watch a lot of television together. How do you decide what to watch? How are your tastes similar and how are they different, and how have they evolved over time? Do you feel like you watch something differently when you are watching it together? • In Case Of Actual Death

There’s an obvious logic in the naming of Doom and Quake, short violent sounding words that have no specific connection to the game itself. Rage follows the same convention, but really it should’ve been called Fetch.

— Rage review - end of the world | Metro.co.uk

When I asked her what she thinks of signing to a label, she cocks her head and says, “I am my label.” (via Can Rebecca Black Move Beyond the Viral to Real Pop Stardom? — New York Magazine)

Faraway teaser (by steph thirion)