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		<title>Computational Literacy: Get with the Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Sample has posted five basic statements, ahem, I mean 5 BASIC statements, on computational literacy. I must point out that while they are all programs, the third and fifth ones actually include multiple statements. And, the program that number 4 is referring to is: 10 PRINT "GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD" 20 NEW Very much worth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/05/computational-literacy-get-with-the-program/</link>
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		<title>Dartmouth at Play = Awesome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Held the Friday of Green Key weekend, one of the busiest times of the year on campus, our first annual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tiltfactor.org/dartmouth-at-play-awesome</link>
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		<title>Tiltfactor Director Mary Flanagan to speak at Prominent Art and Game Symposia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(PDF version here) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: <span>cont<a href="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01Qcxr-Sw1G6nqJQLnX9nUSQ==&#38;c=KhFkd44zQyjKl5yOYwQWZ5iuv9okE6HZk5aBlV9rUvs=" title="Reveal this e-mail address">...</a>@tiltfactor.org</span> 603.646.1007 Dr. Mary Flanagan, director of Tiltfactor Laboratory and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tiltfactor.org/tiltfactor-director-mary-flanagan-to-speak-at-prominient-art-and-game-symposia</link>
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		<title>Dartmouth at Play!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DARTMOUTH AT PLAY FRIDAY MAY 18 Filene Auditorium 4 &#8211; 6 p.m. SAM BEATTIE  ZYNGA  ·  DAVID ROBERTS  POPCAP  ·  MICHELLE [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tiltfactor.org/dartmouth-at-play</link>
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		<title>Postdoc Geoff’s Research Garners Press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geoff Kaufman, our very own postdoctoral researcher, has just published his work on the effects of immersive fictional narrative on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tiltfactor.org/postdoc-geoffs-research-garners-press</link>
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		<title>Almost Goodbye: Minimalist Procedural Content Generation in Interactive Storytelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last quarter I took a graduate seminar here at UCSC in procedural content generation, taught by Jim Whitehead. I&#8217;ve long been intrigued by the possibilities of PCG for interactive storytelling, but my past work hasn&#8217;t explored this terrain. The course inspired the short piece I&#8217;m posting today, Almost Goodbye, a parserless, browser-based, short-form experiment in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eis-blog.ucsc.edu/2012/05/almost-goodbye-minimalist-procedural-content-generation-in-interactive-storytelling/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=almost-goodbye-minimalist-procedural-content-generation-in-interactive-storytelling</link>
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		<title>The Slimmer Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Games can be good for you in many ways&#8211; and there has been an explosion of  play systems and gadgets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tiltfactor.org/slimmer-games</link>
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		<title>Christian Bök in Purple Blurb *Thursday* 6pm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: Thanks to Francisco Ricardo, a video of some of Christian&#8217;s Purple Blurb reading is now online. The Spring 2012 Purple Blurb series comes to an end this week, not with a whimper, but with Christian Bök! Thursday May 3 6-120 6pm Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994),  a pataphysical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/04/christian-bok-in-purple-blurb-thursday-6pm/</link>
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		<title>“Creative Material Computing in a Laboratory Context”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Trope Tank has just issued a new technical report: Creative Material Computing in a Laboratory Context Nick Montfort and Natalia Fedorova TROPE-12-03 Download the full report Abstract Principles for organizing a laboratory with material computing resources are articulated. This laboratory, the Trope Tank, is a facility for teaching, research, and creative collaboration and offers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/04/creative-material-computing-in-a-laboratory-context/</link>
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		<title>ICIDS 2012 CFP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Developers of digital storytelling systems, take note: The call for papers for the Fifth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling is now out. Conference to be held November 12-15, 2012 in Spain.
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		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/04/icids-2012-cfp/</link>
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		<title>The Amiga Book: Maher’s The Future Was Here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Jimmy Maher on his just-published book, The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga. As you might expect, Amazon has a page on it; so does Powell&#8217;s Books, for instance. This MIT Press title is the third book in the Platform Studies series. Jimmy Maher has done an excellent job of detailing the nuts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/04/the-amiga-book-mahers-the-future-was-here/</link>
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		<title>Star Wars, Raw? Rats!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Un file de Machine Libertine: Star Wars, Raw? Rats! &#8230; is a videopoem by Natali Fedorova and Taras Mashtalir. The text is a palindrome by Nick Montfort that briefly retells &#8220;Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope,&#8221; making Han Solo central. The soundtrack is a remix of Commodore 64 music by Sven Schlünzen &#038; Jörg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/04/star-wars-raw-rats/</link>
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		<title>Borsuk, Bök, Montfort – May 5, 7pm, Lorem Ipsum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading soon with our Canadian guest Christian Bök and with my MIT colleague Amaranth Borsuk, who will present Between Page and Screen (published by Siglio Press this year). The gig is at: Lorem Ipsum Books 1299 Cambridge Street Inman Square Cambridge, MA Ph: 617-497-7669 May 7, 2012 at 7pm Amaranth Borsuk is the author [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/04/borsuk-bok-montfort-may-5-7pm-lorem-ipsum/</link>
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		<title>Straight into the Horse’s Mouth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My word-palindrome writing project (being undertaken as @nickmofo) has been boosted by Christian proselytizing, by Bök&#8217;s page. I am delighted to be featured in Christian Bök&#8217;s post on Harriet as an instance of conceptual writing on Twitter &#8211; named, in fact, right after @Horse_ebooks. This makes it particularly apt that Christian describes my writing as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/04/straight-into-the-horses-mouth/</link>
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		<title>Steve McCaffery Reading Carnival at Purple Blurb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve McCaffery read at MIT in the Purple Blurb series on March 19, 2012. A recording of part of that reading (his reading of Carnival) is embedded above; the text of my introduction follows. Thank you all for braving the cold to come out today. Did you know that today is officially the last day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/04/steve-mccaffery-reading-carnival-at-purple-blurb/</link>
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		<title>Come to the Mad Scientist Open House @Tiltfactor!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…muaharhar… THURSDAY // APRIL 19TH // 5-7:30 PM NORTH FAIRBANKS HALL ☜ green entrance behind Tucker This Thursday, come greet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tiltfactor.org/come-to-the-mad-scientist-open-house-tiltfactor</link>
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		<title>Sukie goes to PAX East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey gamers! This weekend, almost 70K people will be gathering in Boston at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tiltfactor.org/sukie-goes-to-pax-east</link>
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		<title>[EVENT] Learn the mathematics behind the game SET!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight at 7pm in Silsby 028,  come learn about the mathematics behind the game SET with Professor Liz MacMahon from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tiltfactor.org/event-learn-the-mathematics-behind-the-game-set</link>
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		<title>A Study on Board Games and Numeracy: Analysis, Implications, and Future Directions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you learn math skills through moving your token in a board game? Geetha Ramani, a professor at the University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tiltfactor.org/a-study-on-board-games-and-numeracy-analysis-implications-and-future-directions</link>
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		<title>On Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked to discuss reading (and reading education) from my perspective recently. Here&#8217;s the reply I gave&#8230; The students I teach now, like other university students I have taught, have the ability to read. They are perfectly able to move their eyes over a page, or a screen, and recognize the typographical symbols as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/04/on-reading/</link>
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		<title>Interactive Fiction Hits the Fan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although a recent IF tribute to a They Might Be Giants album might help to delude some people about this, interactive fiction these days is not about fandom and is unusually not made in reference to and transformation of previous popular works. An intriguing exception, however, can be found in the just-released Muggle Studies, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/03/interactive-fiction-hits-the-fan/</link>
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		<title>Apollo 18+20, a Tribute to an Album in Interactive Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The organizer of the People&#8217;s Republic of Interactive Fiction, Kevin Jackson-Mead, has organized and co-written a tribute to the 1992 They Might Be Giants Album, Apollo 18. At the PR-IF site, you can play and download 38 short games corresponding to every song (including the &#8220;Fingertips&#8221; songs) on the album. With its retro cachet, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/03/apollo-1820-a-tribute-to-an-album-in-interactive-fiction/</link>
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		<title>Big Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went last weekend to visit the Big Reality exhibit at 319 Scholes in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It was an adventure and an excellent alternative to staying around in the East Village on March 17, the national day of drunkenness. The gallery space, set amid warehouses and with its somewhat alluring, somewhat foreboding basement area (I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/03/big-reality/</link>
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		<title>Palindrome “Sagas”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marty Markowitz, borough president of Brooklyn, said his borough was &#8220;the heart of America&#8221; in welcoming the 35th Annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. My heart was certainly in Brooklyn last weekend, both literally and figuratively. I was there to participate in the First Annual World Palindrome Championship on Friday and, on Saturday, to visit Big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/03/palindrome-sagas/</link>
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		<title>What If</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David &#8220;the supah fly&#8221; Cronenberg was making a movie starring Robert &#8220;can&#8217;t stop sparkling&#8221; Pattinson based on a novel by Don &#8220;say the word&#8221; DeLillo &#8230; Cosmopolis &#8230; about a fantastically wealthy guy trying to cross Manhattan in his limo to get a haircut &#8230; ? (Thanks to Mark Sample for alerting me to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/03/what-if/</link>
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		<title>An Image Is Worth a Thousand Midi-Chlorians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

This was good for 45 minutes of narratology discussion in the ol&#8217; graduate seminar today.
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		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/03/an-image-is-worth-a-thousand-midi-chlorians/</link>
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		<title>Digging beyond Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noah Wardrip-Fruin, a friend and collaborator, has a great editorial in Inside Higher Ed today. It&#8217;s called &#8220;The Prison-House of Data&#8221; and addresses a prevalent (if not all-inclusive) view of the digital humanities that focuses on the...]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/03/digging-beyond-data/</link>
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		<title>The Prison-House of Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Inside Higher Education is running an editorial of mine. In 2010, the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts convened a historic workshop &#8212; it was their first jointly funded project. This meeting marked the beginning of a new level of national conversation about how computer science and other STEM disciplines can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eis-blog.ucsc.edu/2012/03/the-prison-house-of-data/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-prison-house-of-data</link>
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		<title>I’ll be at TransTalks this week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be speaking on behalf of my artistic practice and Tiltfactor with Christopher Robbins, of the Ghana Think Tank, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tiltfactor.org/ill-be-at-transtalks-this-week</link>
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		<title>The Purpling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently notified that &#8220;The Purpling&#8221; was no longer online at its original published location, on a host named &#8220;research-intermedia.art.uiowa.edu&#8221; which held The Iowa Review Web site. In fact, it seems that The Iowa Review Web is missing entirely from that host. My first reaction was put my 2008 hypertext poem online now on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nickm.com/post/2012/03/the-purpling/</link>
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