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A very personal look at the most expensive video game in history, inspecting some numbers and a lot of gameplay.

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This is a lesson in communication. A single word can take a country to war or bring instant peace. The right word at the right time and place can change everything.

After open-sourcing our LINES blog platform, we thought we’d share some geometric wallpapers with you that we created along the way.

01 "On Writing Interfaces Well"

by Jonas Downey / 37signals' Signal vs Noise

To all you great designers: you could be even greater if you made an effort to write. To write well, that is. This involves editing. True, it's hard and you need practice. But you'll never get the practice if you …

“Ghosts in the Machine” with Maddy Myers, doing as little as possible with Lyza Danger Gardner, crafting words instead of pixels with Jeffrey Zeldman, parallax with Matthew Wagerfield, and Stormur with Sigur Ros.

As a musician or a band, the thing you're probably most concerned about is your music. You should be. Write great tracks, find a distinguished sound, file and refine it, record the songs. Awesome. Now how to get people to listen to them?

Of course, you play live. But how to get people to come …

A bomb in a garden, a minimal editor, doing things the long hard stupid way, writing better, failing, and Neapolitan ice-cream.