http://disruption.ca Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:18:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I spent an evening destroying a deck of cards. 30 Cards 120 Cuts 60 Joints If I were to do it again, I would find a more accurate way of making the cuts. Credit where it is due: I made this following Grorge Hart's example. My last post was dice. Tonight it is cards. ... http://disruption.ca/archives/cards/ My dice portrait of Albert Einstein is finally finished and hanging on my wall. A little over a year ago, I read a blog post about creating an amazing portrait of The Madonna using dice. I loved the idea, and after some minor hesitation, decided to blatantly steal the concept. ... http://disruption.ca/archives/dice/ In September I noticed that I was spending an unreasonable amount of time on news and link sites. In addition to a large list of RSS subscriptions that I read daily, I regularly hit Slashdot, Boing Boing, Reddit, Hacker News and Arts and Letters Daily. There is a ... http://disruption.ca/archives/a-month-without-slashdot/ I'd like to start with a disclaimer for anyone coming to my blog for the first time. I swear I didn't just install worpress and leave it on the default theme. I actually chose this template before it became the wordpress default. I'm really going to have ... http://disruption.ca/archives/links-from-my-fitc-edmonton-talk/ In January I read a blog post on likely causes for failure in a tech startup. This article resulted in a comment thread on Y Combinator's Hacker News that I found to be particularly interesting. The conversation starts with Joel Spolsky stating that the real reason why startups fail is ... http://disruption.ca/archives/morale-motivation-and-startups/ tigsource.com is a community dedicated to independent games. Some form members are organizing a Western Canada TIGjam in Edmonton, and I'd really like to see this happen. The concept is pretty simple. It's about getting a group of people who are interested in game development together for a couple ... http://disruption.ca/archives/edmonton-game-jam/ Grant Skinner recently came up with a fun challenge. Try to write an interesting program in a tweet (140 chars) worth of actionscript. Take a look at the rules for the competition, and the #tweetcoding aggregation page that includes the results. There are some amazing visual effects and impressive ... http://disruption.ca/archives/tweetcoding/ On December 5th took part in the 13th Ludum Dare 48 hour game programming competition. The theme was roads and I created a small puzzle sort of game in flash. You can play the game online. Roads to Nowhere Competition Version There is also the Roads to Nowere ld48 page. What ... http://disruption.ca/archives/new-game-roads-to-nowhere/ I drew this comic some time ago, but now that it is the Christmas season I think it's a good time to post it. Penguin Party If you'd like some context, this Coke commercial might help you out. The comic started as pencil drawings. I "inked" and coloured scans of the drawings ... http://disruption.ca/archives/penguin-comic/ In one of the earliest posts here, I discussed a scream sound effect frequently used in science fiction movies and video games. At the time I searched for information, but I couldn't find a source for it. Since then I have considered it one of the few things ... http://disruption.ca/archives/the-internet-is-all-knowing/