Singapore hates the iPhone

Weird. They didn’t tell me about their unbridled hatred for Mac users when I was in town. They must have been harboring it secretly behind my back since I brought my MacBookPro with me.

Links for Mar 03, 2008

• Programmer Jason Rohrer follows up on his wildly successful 300kb game of mortality, Passage, with his newest game, Gravitation, that reflects on the struggle of fame, mania, and the creative process.

• YouTube video of Mario mashed with Half-life gaming mechanics and graphics.

• The Sundance Channel has a weeklong documentary series going over the lives and stories of famous photographers starting today. (nytimes.com)

• Apostrophe Atrophy looks at all the misuses of apostrophes in popular media and advertising. On the subject of grammar, punctuation, and the overall English language, Singapore seems to be doing a terrible job of promoting it as a secondary language. It’s okay, we suck at it too.

• A cool experiment on making decisions and the importance of choice, or the illusion of it, given to the testers. They have to choose between a three doors and each one has a different monetary reward; if they change which door they click on, though, they would get penalized a fee.