Month: May 2013

  • Mass Effect as Great Science Fiction

    Cerberus For 106 hours (24 ME1, 33 ME2, 59 ME3) over the last six months, I have been exploring the epic science fiction worlds of Mass Effect (ME). I could have easily only spent 60 hours there, since that’s enough time to get through the game, but I was genuinely engaged with the universe and…

  • Is Web Design All About Hacking or Kludging?

    So I decided to spend the weekend redesigning/modernizing my lifetime project, a citation-management tool mxplx, because the site is old and ugly looking and I wanted to play with some of the shiny new toys in CSS: The 00s Called, They Want Their Website Design Back So hundreds googlings and SOings and two sugar-driven all-nighter’s…