Well, lookie here, it’s a new theme for my blog! It’s the end of another semester, and so it’s time for a reskinning of my blog. I decided to go for a little bit more of a pixelart style this time (along with my self-portrait at the top, yanked from my Kongregate account). [...]

I’m taking a brief break between major writing projects to pop in on the blog and let you all know that I’m still alive. It’s been a rather busy few weeks, and looks to continue to be that way until the end of the holidays. I suppose it’s quite telling that, in this [...]

It should be pretty obvious what my political leanings are if you’ve more than skimmed the surface of this blog in the past few months. I’ve tried to keep it from taking over the site, as (1) I’m not sure I have a lot to add to the public political discourse that other, more [...]

Yay! My author copies of The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy arrived today. I’ve mentioned this a bunch of times on the blog lately, so I apologize for spamming the blog with it — I’m just real excited to have this book chapter finally see print. I started working on this nearly [...]

News flash: Apparently “Web 2.0″ has only existed in order to eventually foster “back end” moneymaking by its contributors. Who knew?! The ever-blind Andrew Keen, that’s who. The author of The Cult of the Amateur — which, frankly, I can’t get through, it’s so terrible — has recently chimed in on the [...]

It’s not much of a secret that I really enjoy the The Legend of Zelda series of games. Jim Gee and I have a paper in the upcoming The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy book (pictured above; click here if you wanna preorder from Amazon). It’s also not much of a secret [...]

I’ve been a fan of Kongregate for a while now, and was pleasantly surprised to see the rollout of their newest feature — Kongregate Labs. If you’re unfamiliar with Kongregate, it’s probably most easily described as a “YouTube for Flash games,” though with added achievements (a la the Xbox 360 and Blizzard’s games), a [...]

World of Warcraft was my first MMO, while certainly not my first “virtual world” (assuming that one counts text-based spaces such as LambdaMOO). Lately, I’ve been feeling rather tired of World of Warcraft — though researching the game is fascinating to me, and a big chunk of my dissertation work, I’m yearning for something [...]

Constance recently posted a video that her group prepared for a MacArthur Foundation “Worked Examples” session at this past summer’s GLS 4.0 conference. Me (and my bald spot) feature in it, and it’s an interesting — and amusing! — look at some of the activities we’ve organized while starting to get an afterschool program [...]