Persuasive games? “Every coin you pump into the bank is translated into gold, which can be used to buy weapons, items and armour for your character.”

“A collection of interesting ideas curated by Joanne McNeil and Jerry Brito.” Via Ballardian (http://ballardian.com)

“We saved our pocket money and bought a Forth-based dev environment called White Lightning. The manual was printed on dark green paper – we worked out why when we tried photocopying it so we could both read it at the same time…”

“Escaping interfaces.” Similar to what happened with Lee Iacocca’s Interlock – http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/simple-control-in-products/#interlock

“We need an anti-curfew that fills our streets with the vast mass of well-behaved and well-intentioned people, rather than just the marginalised few that have no private space to which to retreat.”

Mark Hurst. Some very interesting readers’ comments too.

An old-but-good, well-reasoned rant from Mark Hurst: “It’s like opening a four-star restaurant, where everything is excellent – the service, the food, the decor, the live music, everything – and then putting moldy bread on the tables for customers.”

“Before the clock, time was not something measurable, but felt, and the invention of the clock changed the way society thought about time.”

“Proof of the jail cell’s status as unspoken spectacle and insight into the architect’s ethical and personal relationship to the places they create.” Thanks to Eugene McHugh for the link.

“I often think of “good experience” as being straightforward, honest, forthright, and so on. And it is, and must be, in most cases. But sometimes deception can be used for good”. Thanks to Johan Strandell for the link.

Thanks to Cameron Tonkinwise for these

Thanks to Cameron Tonkinwise for these.

Crosbie Fitch explores the “angst about losing control over the flow of information” and how it relates to corporate, state and creators’ engagement with copyright.

The BBC’s perverse attitude towards BitTorrent

Stallman and Feynman quotes on the long view of humanity’s future

“British children are being “demonised” by a society that is locking too many of them up, according to watchdogs.”

“So, very soon, you will own a cell phone that has a very good camera and knows where you are within ten or fifteen feet. And the web will know who you are and who your friends are. What happens?”

Creating better streets and public spaces for people on foot

Emergent behaviour… Thanks to Max Kashner for sending me this!

“Hey, Guy? If I could make a miniature gun that was 1.7″ long and contained no moving parts and could still fire bullets, I could also make it in shapes other than gun.”

via http://www.blackbeltjones.com/work/ : “Skateboarders have encountered a politics of space similar to the experiences of the homeless… [they] occupy urban space without engaging in economic activity of interiors, to the annoyance of building owners a

“Many people are horrified by the fact that knowledge flows continuously. They wouldn’t have any qualms about electricity flowing around us freely but they find the idea of a never stopping flow of information highly disturbing. They would like to be able

“Surfaces invite interaction. To what extent are designers responsible for the interactions they induce?”

“I’d always considered ambition a good thing, but I realize now that was because I’d always implicitly understood it to mean ambition in the areas I cared about. When you list everything ambitious people are ambitious about, it’s not so pretty.”