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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Ian BogostIan Bogost, professor in the Georgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was mentioned in an article in New York Times “Books and the ‘Boredom Boom’”
Excerpt:
Mr. Bogost, a professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, waxes more ruminative. His thoughtful book “Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games” (266 pages, Basic Books, $26.99) makes the point that life’s limitations — as with the limitations of a game such as soccer or Tetris — are not impediments to our enjoyment, but rather, what make life or the game fun in the first place. It’s a similar point to the one that Mr. Miller made in his preface, but this time around, instead of welling up, I nodded my head a lot. Yes, yes: so true.
For the full article, read here.
