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YouTube Piano

by Ben Atlas on 01.7.2010.9:31pm · 0 comments

Yes try playing it (wait for the video to load completely). ►►►read more

Every Day the Same Dream

by Ben Atlas on 12.22.2009.7:41pm · 0 comments

Nice little visual game. I like the music. (via workalicious)

Ernő Rubik launches Rubik’s 360

by Ben Atlas on 07.7.2009.8:06am · 0 comments

The creator of the Rubic Cube Ernő Rubik, who is a Professor of Architecture in Budapest, is launching a new puzzle. There is an article in Guardian and a video on YouTube.

3 Games of Life you don’t want to play

by Ben Atlas on 06.1.2009.9:12am · 7 comments

Pieter Pauwel Rubens, St. George Slaying the Dragon, Pen with brown ink and brown wash, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Pieter Pauwel Rubens, St. George Slaying the Dragon, Pen with brown ink and brown wash, Musée du Louvre, Paris

  1. You don’t want to play a game you can’t lose - wouldn’t even qualify as life. It lacks the essential purpose, the mystery, the adrenaline of meaning.
  2. You don’t want to play a game if you know the plot – a tale with all familiar characters is cracked. The very definition of boring.
  3. You don’t want to play a game when your only opponent is time – the game that doesn’t have a lethal monster ready to block your every move. We know we can’t advance unless we “slaughter” them. There are three types of the blocking monsters:
    • Monsters we expect and prepare to fight;
    • Monster that jump out suddenly, we need to be on alert for those.
    • Most lethal type of monsters are in a benevolent disguise. This creature has the magic ability to look like your best friend, your career counselor, your guru, your rabbi or priest, even your parent or “your god”. In the game of life watch out for those, they are your hardest hurdle.

I often hear from friends – “I was going to be “X” but that one [insert here] turned me away, blocked my path”. Man, that’s the whole game!

Image courtesy Web Gallery of Art