mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 13 2008 | video games, valve, portal, microsoft, xbox
A very thorough article about Portal - including the "cake is a lie" meme.
Quoted: Wolpaw further describes the idea of using cake as the reward came about as "at the beginning of the Portal development process, we sat down as a group to decide what philosopher or school of philosophy our game would be based on. That was followed by about 15 minutes of silence and then someone mentioned that a lot of people like cake."[30]
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 03 2007 | start page, portal, web 2.0, reviews
No clear winner here.
Quoted: The ideal start page for web work would let you see the status of your workday at a glance–what emails have come in, what’s on your to do list, what articles from RSS feeds you need to read, what your contacts are up to, and what’s on your calendar.
The ideal start page would show all this in an integrated and information-rich way such that even graphical guru Edward Tufte couldn’t criticize it.
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2006 | social, portal
Quoted: Fanpop is a network of "social portals" called spots that are created for fans by fans. Share your favorite links and meet fellow fanatics. Find out what other fans are surfing on the web with "social browsing". We think that it should be easier to get to stuff you care about. Because the web should revolve around you. Go pop in and out of a few spots!
