Max Vs. The Internet

I am miserably sick, but today, some bright news (via TIGSource, of course). Oh, it's on:

"Splendid jetpack dreams of the Apatosaurus named Brontosaurus."

Elit Open Mic/Open Mouse
April 25,2008, 7:30pm
USC, Institute for Multimedia Literacy

Calling All creators (and fans) of Electronic Literature: authors, designers, and programmers. Sign up now to present your new or favorite work of elit in our Open Mic/Open Mouse.

Venue: Outdoors under the stars at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, 746 West Adams Blvd., LA, CA 90089 at the University of Southern California.

Potential Genres:
* Electronic Poetry
* Hypertext
* Interactive Fiction
* Interactive Drama
* Conversational Agents
* Video Mashups
* Serious Games
* Flash Works
* Codeworks

Any work that could be labeled "Electronic Literature" is welcome
Or you may read an excerpt of one of your favorite elit works.

Performance Spots Length: 7 Minutes Max

The performance will be Free and Open to the public.

Contact: To sign up, contact Jeremy Douglass [jeremydouglass [at] gmail]

Organized by Mark Marino, Jeremy Douglass, and Jessica Pressman with support from Holly Willis of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy and from the Electronic Literature Organization.

For more information see:
http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2008/04/03/underthestars/

If this is for real, then we all just got served. Hard.

Contemplating doing something other than making games with my new liberty and, oh, would you look at that, Hack a Day has a nice roundup of different multitouch projects. Check 'em out.

But oh crap, they also have a link to a DS Homebrew Guide? It's like their trying to tell me something.

Idle Thought: is "hack a day" the carpe diem version of "hack the planet?"

That's it. Videogames are over. Everybody go home. We're all done. There's nothing left to do.