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  • Pepijn Uitterhoeve
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  • About the user: I'm Pepijn, a veteran Utopia player (and gamer in general). I intend to write my master thesis on Utopia, and focus mainly on the cooperative aspects. Some more stuff about me may be found here: http://peppie.wordpress.com/about/

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The Turing Test

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 15 October 2007, 6:03 pm | tags: , , ,

Something droll, courtesy of xkcd.com

:D

Shift happens

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 28 August 2007, 10:51 pm | tags: , , ,

Sometimes, one needs to let the youtube do the talking. Suffice to say, we’re in the thick of it.

LOL theorists

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 08 June 2007, 1:49 pm | 22 comments | tags: , , ,

So I was browsing this fantastic cat picture site when I found delicious links to similar projects, such as this one on presidents and more importantly, this one on theorists.

foucault discursive regimes

It features Deleuze, Foucault, even Henry Jenkins. He caught wind of the site and commented on it in his blog:

And to my astonishment,

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Wait – what’s a blog again?

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 18 May 2007, 10:15 pm | 12 comments | tags: , , , , ,

In an ongoing discussion on a forum I got into a scuffle with a formidable opponent about what blogs exactly are. I tried parroting all that I had been taught in various classes during the BA and MA courses in New Media; basically that weblogs are a form (as argued by Albert Benschop in class at one point) and not…

The Great Global Warming Swindle?

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 09 May 2007, 5:37 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

So there’s a documentary by the British Channel Four which argues that human/CO2 caused Global Warming is a pile of steaming bollocks (smells better than excrement). It can grow to become a kind of counter-Inconvenient Truth, and contribute to reversing the progress the Global Warming movements have so far achieved.

While there are plenty of sites who dispute the…

Marshall McLuhan on Televised Presidential Debates

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 05 May 2007, 12:59 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

So I was browsing around YouTube and stumbled upon this video of McLuhan on the Today Show:

I think presidential debates are indeed exemplary of the adage “The Medium is the Message”. It’s refreshing to see media theory from 1976 still being fully applicable today. I especially love how he claims that what the candidates say is completely irrelevant…

Text chatting versus Face to Face talking

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 11 April 2007, 1:21 pm | 10 comments | tags: , ,

I’m getting rather tired of people ranting on about the inferiority of text-based conversation such as MSN, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo! messenger, G-talk and IRC. The prevailing opinion seems to beFace to Face vs Instant Messaging that face to face communication is hands down superior to online text conversations, because face to face includes body language, intonation, facial expressions, physical…

Google, politics and censorship

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 29 March 2007, 11:54 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , ,

So I’m at my mum’s trying to make some progress on writing my thesis, and she complained about one of the sites she likes to visit – UrukNet – being shunned from Google News.googlecensor

I asked her for some links regarding this, and apparently there are a number of curious issues surrounding Google and controversal (leftish) websites.

The Parlor – A waiting room conversation

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 10 February 2007, 2:55 am | 7 comments | tags: , ,

Check out this eleven minute video of a conversation in a waiting room which is entirely relevant in the context of new media (studies). It’s well worth your time!

Julian Kücklich: beyond narratology or taking games seriously

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 21 November 2006, 10:41 pm | 4 comments | tags: ,

On the 16th of November in the year of the Fire Dog, a German bloke named Julian Raul Kücklich visited an ugly building in Amsterdam called the P.C. Hoofthuis. This man, designated as one of the few worthy game theorists by Geert Lovink, spoke introductory words to us regarding the studying of games.Computer Game…</p> </div> </div> <div id=

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