A Slower Speed of Light Official Trailer — MIT Game Lab (by Steven Schirra)
“A Slower Speed of Light is a first-person game in which players navigate a 3D space while picking up orbs that reduce the speed of light in increments. A custom-built, open-source relativistic
graphics engine allows the speed of light in the game to approach the player’s own maximum walking speed. Visual effects of special relativity gradually become apparent to the player, increasing
the challenge of gameplay. These effects, rendered in realtime to vertex accuracy, include the Doppler effect; the searchlight effect; time dilation; Lorentz transformation; and the runtime
effect.
A thread about the sounds dial-up modems used to make prompted member Devonian to recall being a fly on the wall during the development of modem speed standards
2010 May 2, 2:52'HAR to Page Speed' is a tool that takes a HAR file (Http ARchive) supported by various HTTP debuggers and produces a page speed score. This is a great example of the value of a cross HTTP
debugger file format.httptooldebugperformancewebtechnical
2010 Jan 20, 8:56I had no idea of the amount of variation: "The Tetris Guideline is the current specification that The Tetris Company enforces for making all new (2001 and later) Tetris game products alike in form."
Covers things like piece color, vocabulary, speeds, rotation system etc etc etc. I'll be adopting some of this in Polytope Tetris...tetriswikireferencegamevideogame
2009 Jun 22, 2:55"To speed up browsing, Google Chrome resolves domain names before the user navigates, typically while the user is viewing a web page." In addition to noting what and how they do it, and how web devs
can control it, they give a few stats on how much it helps.googlednschromedns-prefetchingbrowsernetworkingperformancetechnical
2009 Apr 15, 7:33The emulator behind those cool script based Mario hacks. "FCEUX is a cross platform, NTSC and PAL Famicom/NES emulator that ... gives the best of all worlds for the casual player, the ROM-hacking
community, Lua Scripters, and the Tool-Assisted Speedrun Community."emulatornintendovideogamesoftwareprogramminggame
2009 Apr 13, 10:17If the face drawn onto the robot hadn't been as cute I doubt as many people would have helped =). "Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they
encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to
reach their goal."tweenbotvideosocialmaprobotcutenycsocietyhumor
2009 Apr 7, 12:45"First, you started up the application and picked a video clip. The video clip just sat there. As you started clapping, the video clip started playing. If you clapped at about 80 beats per minute,
the video clip played at its normal speed. If you clapped faster, the video clip ran faster. If you clapped slower, the video clip ran slower. If you stopped clapping, the video clip stopped. It was
freaky cool. Totally useless, but freaky cool."humorclapvideoraymond-chenfilter-graphreference-clock
2009 Mar 11, 1:24Penn & Teller's unreleased videogame included a minigame 'Desert Bus': 'The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a maximum speed of 45mph,
a feat that would take the player 8 hours of continuous play to complete, as the game cannot be paused.'desert-buspenn-and-tellervideogamehumorwikipedia
2009 Jan 29, 10:22Play this game now. Its like half of a delicious club sandwhich. Love the music. "To make it in Nuevos Aires, one has to have nerves of silk and the filthiest of hands. Mix together a batch of
espionage, some high- speed car chases, fire-spewing assassins, and you've got one oven that'll never bake cookies again. We provide the pliers and you bring the moxie."gamevideogamequakegravity-bonehumorspyespionage
2008 Nov 7, 4:06'A live "drawing on whiteboard" version [of pong], mixing electronics with the joy of drawing on, wiping off and repositioning your playing bat. Check it out, thrill to the high-speed action and grin
at the ultimate use of a whiteboard: so much better than the usual business drivel that gets drawn on them.'humorvideointeractivewhiteboardponggame
A new 3-D printer pulls fully formed objects out of liquid at 100 times the speed
http://theatln.tc/199X3VM pic.twitter.com/cMb6HSthL7
Speedrunner Stephen Kiazyk demos Psychonauts bugs to dev team incl Tim Schafer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsDc1YVxHA0 … Funny reactions from the game's devs
The speed of light suuuuuucks
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