Gleaning the Net

Posted by on October 26, 2007 at 11:38 am.

Here is a collection of links I’ve enjoyed this week. I hope you enjoy them as well.

· The Orange Box – Portal

Portalâ„¢, coming in the Fall of 2007, is a new single player game available for the PC, as well as the Xbox® 360 and Playstation® 3 console systems. The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment…Players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuvering objects, and themselves, through space.

· How To Tell If You Are Mom’s Favorite, found @ Stephen Bodio’s Querencia

· Confession of the Compulsive found @ Fashonista

· How to Wake Up Feeling Totally Alert found @ Steve Pavalina’s Website

Your alarm goes off at 5am, and you immediately get out of bed without a second thought…

· Feel Art Again: First Communion found @ Mental Floss

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Pablo Picasso is most famous for the artwork he produced during his blue period and his cubist periods. Yet Picasso began his career with more traditional styles; he once stated, “…at 15 I painted like Velazquez, and it took me 80 years to paint like a child.”

· String Theroy in 2 minutes with the help of a rubber ducky found at Discover Magazine

· Hula Seventy’s guerrilla art army, a fortunate Friday found @ Keri Smith

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we took to the streets of downtown portland with many little paper fortunes in hand. we were hoping to leave them in a hundred different places, we were hoping all kinds of people would find them. and smile or laugh. or stop for a second and take a breath and look around. or something, anything. who knows how much of that actually happened. doesn’t really matter. as it turns out, the act of doing was enough.

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