Tag: TOOLS

Whether you love or hate 'FarmVille' and its Facebook-game brethren, you can't deny their reach or their influence on how we play today. Enter video game designer and critic Ian Bogost and his new Facebook app 'Cow Clicker,' a meta-game that pares down social networking lifestyle entertainments to the root of their essential mechanics. According to Bogost, "You get a cow. You can click on it. In ...

We're just growing to accept that man is not the only creature on Earth who has developed the ability to use tools. First it was chimpanzees using stones to crack open fruit and nuts, and sticks to fish out termites. Then last year our closest simian relatives were observed making spears. Suddenly we weren't so special anymore. And now we're being forced to acknowledge that yet another creature, ...