Todd Simmons

Great Fresh Air interview about the history and business of hip-hop, covering Sugar Hill, Def Jam, Wu-Tang, Roc-A-Fella: http://n.pr/fIwU7Q

If you’re using a browser that supports HTML5, check out this impressive interactive art by Hakim El Hattab: http://hakim.se/experiments/

Congrats to my friends at Ricochet Labs for making the cover of the Austin Chronicle this week! http://bit.ly/hoIIfq http://bit.ly/esaA2S

TX state govt has denied incentives for the Robert Rodriguez film “Machete”, for portraying Texans in a negative light: http://bit.ly/gGBFiK

Survived final exams and finished grad school semester. Now catching up on the recent flood of Google announcements: http://engt.co/elyiJG

The new Xbox Kinect is a hacker’s dream: http://nyti.ms/gYwTGu Lots of potential for interactive digital art pieces: http://engt.co/h23V6W

Should Wikileaks be considered a media organization? And if so, does it qualify for the same press freedoms as NYTimes? http://bit.ly/eN2ONF

Google offered to buy Groupon for $6 billion and got turned down. Are we looking at another bubble in tech investing? http://nyti.ms/hjCuIH

Gamification was a big trend of 2010, but many think the concept needs to be applied in a deeper, more thoughtful way: http://bit.ly/fk22rr

Great interview with Warren Spector about the new “Epic Mickey”: http://n.pr/e0WcSJ Congrats to all my friends who worked on this game.