I Plead the 10th
Stardock and Gas Powered Games have created a Gamer’s Bill of Rights.
Superhero HP
Brand New has an article on the currently unofficial HP logo change. The redesign is rather hideous.
Eight Myths
Henry Jenkins, an MIT professor, wrote an article for PBS detailing eight myths about video games. This is required reading, parents, students, everyone. I’m not kidding. I will find you. I will make you read it.
Web Development Time
GraphJam with the damn truth and nothing else.
Internet Explorer 7 Standalone
TredoSoft has a very well done implementation of an Internet Explorer 7 standalone package. I use it myself in my VMWare Fusion virtual machine running Windows XP for browser testing.
More Mirror's Edge
Anyone want some of the new Mirror’s Edge gameplay trailer goodness?
Projected Tabletop
Ars Technica forum poster “BobDole” pointed his ceiling projector downward to draw a tabletop game board onto his play surface. Pretty.
Shady
The MONARCHTechstore on ODU’s campus is offering the following prices on Adobe software to ODU students:
- Adobe CS3.3 Design Premium: $322.00 USD
- Adobe CS3.3 Design Standard: $218.00
- Adobe CS3 Web Standard: $218.00
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended: $186.00
- Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro: $67.00
Every time I see deals like this, it reminds me how much Adobe is bleeding it’s customers dry with their almost-a-monopoly on professional design tools. If they’re still making a profit from selling bulk licenses to colleges at these prices, how much profit are they making from regular users?
Honest Cop, Bad Cop
United Kingdom resident “edent” video-taped his random search by London Transport Police acting under §44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Muxtape vs. RIAA
Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA.
I’m sure no one is tired of the RIAA yet.
100 Network Security Tools
Sectools has a list of the top 100 network security tools based on a poll of 3,243 people on the nmap-hackers mailing list.
Use wisely. And try not to audit a network you don’t own.
Sorting Contest, Again
Here’s some more demos of sorting algorithms, animated. This page is more useful because you can start with a random, almost sorted, reversed, or few-unique set of data. Useful for deciding which sorting algorithm to use based on the general order of information you expect to receive.
Cell Phone Popcorn
Ok, so trying to pop popcorn with some cellphones is definitely on my to-do list.
Update: These videos are actually a viral marketing advertisements.
Byte Sheets
Added Bytes has lots of cheat sheets for web programming, software, and even World of Warcraft. Available as PDFs or PNGs.
Define 2.0
Indexed has the best explanation, by far, of what Web 2.0 means.
Attention: Fake Ceremony is Now Real Truth
Officials representing the Beijing Olympic Games in China have confirmed that the organizations in charge of the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Summer Olympics may have faked at least two parts of the production. […]
It has been revealed that nine-year-old Lin Miaoke, who performed “Ode to the Motherland” during the ceremony, was only a visual effect. A recording of another girl’s voice played throughout the stadium and on the television and radio broadcasts. It is also now known that that some of the fireworks shown on television were computer-generated imagery.
DVDs on Your Wii
HackMii has released a tool that lets you play DVDs on your Wii. A modchip is not required, but you have to have some way to write to your Wii’s SD card, like a card reader.
John Mayer Gives His Dad Tech Support
A thousand times I have lived this, and a thousand times to come, I’m sure. Except I have to phone troubleshoot Windows boxes, instead.
Movable Type 4.2
My favorite open-soruce blogging software, and the software I use to publish this site, Movable Type, has updated to version 4.2.
Trust me on this one: When they say they improved the speed of the system, they meant it. My Movable Type install is burning up the Perl now.