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Feminism « But, How?
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A blog about making art, games, toys, the news, and other wonderful distractions. Oct 15, 2013. A Little Fable About the Benefit of the Doubt. In 2007, I worked in a tiny open air market, selling lovingly crafted jewelry. I actually made money doing this; all my bills got paid, even if I didn’t have a lot of extra income. Naturally, anyone who was pushing people away from our market was a real threat to our livelihoods. For months, the photographer didn’t stop or slow down. He kept doing it....And the...
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Impromptu Swag Review: Zipper Magazine « But, How?
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A blog about making art, games, toys, the news, and other wonderful distractions. Oct 12, 2013. Impromptu Swag Review: Zipper Magazine. From time to time, I review the physical objects from various transmedia projects. If you have a project and you want to send me something for review, drop it in the mail. Usually, I review things I get in the mail from ARGS and the like. This edition of swag review is something a little different – something that just randomly fell on my desk yesterday morning. The cove...
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AUTHENTIC, she said, IN ALL CAPS « But, How?
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A blog about making art, games, toys, the news, and other wonderful distractions. Feb 26, 2013. AUTHENTIC, she said, IN ALL CAPS. Christy Dena is funding her project, AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS. And it has just over 2 days left to make the cut. It’s a narration-augmented web game for the iPad about finding the courage to be yourself in a satirical underworld run by quantum theorists. The. Was nominated for a game writing award. It’s going to be great. It had to be done. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Alternat...
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Guns, Geek Communities and Mental Health « But, How?
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A blog about making art, games, toys, the news, and other wonderful distractions. Jan 29, 2013. Guns, Geek Communities and Mental Health. If I’ve seemed distracted these past few weeks; it’s because the thoughts in this post were rattling around in my brain. Hopefully, with it written down, they will stop haunting me a bit. With Defense Distributed; but also general bad behavior like making vague threats, leaving their stuff lying around and trying to shout down people who disagree with them. I’ve ...
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17th Century Paintings of Cheaters « But, How?
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A blog about making art, games, toys, the news, and other wonderful distractions. Feb 10, 2013. 17th Century Paintings of Cheaters. Once in a while, Wikipedia manages to show me something that completely blows me away. Tonight, I was reading the page for “ Cheating. 8221; and found a link to cheating-related media. Some of these cheaters are really obvious. Others are very discreet. When you’re all gathered in the candlelight, there are plenty of shadows to hide in.
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Projects « But, How?
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A blog about making art, games, toys, the news, and other wonderful distractions. Jul 11, 2013. Hard Lessons in Project Management. Doing Laser Lace Letters. Has taught me a lot of things, but project management and time estimation have to be the biggest ones. Some of these have been tough lessons to learn, and really exposed the flaws in my thinking. Don’t just guess at how long things will take. Know the size of your project. Be realistic about your workload. 8221; In reality, I was already working at ...
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Laser Lace « But, How?
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A blog about making art, games, toys, the news, and other wonderful distractions. Sep 4, 2013. Laser Lace Episode 1 is Out! The digital version of Laser Lace Episode 1 is out now! It went out to Kickstarter backers last night, and everyone else can grab it here. This digital book is in full color, carefully arrayed, and it feels very much like looking through the physical story packet. The episode is available right now at Gumroad. Comments Off on Laser Lace Episode 1 is Out! Jul 11, 2013. Laser Lace isn...
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I Actually Think Girls Might Not Have a STEM Allergy « But, How?
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A blog about making art, games, toys, the news, and other wonderful distractions. Apr 18, 2013. I Actually Think Girls Might Not Have a STEM Allergy. So, I just read a piece by teachers Jonathan Olsen and Sarah Gross titled, To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science. The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, tracked about 1500 college-bound students over a decade and found that more women had the highest scores on both the math and the verbal portion of the SAT te...
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Easy Hacks for Writing Woman-Friendly Media « But, How?
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A blog about making art, games, toys, the news, and other wonderful distractions. Aug 27, 2013. Easy Hacks for Writing Woman-Friendly Media. I have a game designer friend who said to me, a while back, that he wants to make things that hang on fewer sexist tropes, but didn’t know where to start. I replied a little sharply, that. This shit is easy. 8211; and really, it is! 8211; but I guess the question is owed a more detailed answer, so I decided to write up a couple of rough and ready tips. Make a list o...
