One SimCity Per Child

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From Slashdot | One SimCity Per Child:

Electronic Arts has donated the original ‘classic’ version of Will Wright’s popular SimCity game to the One Laptop Per Child project. SimCity is the epitome of constructionist educational games, and has been widely used by educators to unlock and speed-up the transformational skills associated with creative thinking.

I love SimCity, and this is a good thing to share code, but the cultural values embedded in the ‘game’ is problematic. That said, since the game is being open sourced, anyone can fix it up to make it more inclusive. So I give it 2 thumbs up.

Toronto @ Dawn II

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I just uploaded 4 more in my series of photos out my window at dawn. This is not a fake image. All I did was set the levels in photoshop and put a small unsharp mask on it to sharpen it up. But they look great. Click on it for the full size. Makes a great background screen.