June 2008
Gamasutra - Valve: PC Has 'Perception Problem,'... →
Biggest Under Reported Story: Google's BigTable... →
Interesante!
May 2008
Valve: Digital Sales Will Soon Top Retail Sales →
Thanks no doubt to the company’s Steam service, Valve president Gabe Newell believes the firm will soon be making more money from the sale of downloaded games than from retail boxed…
Deadly Brain-Eating Amoeba Strikes, Six Deaths in... →
Huh. Brain eating amoebas. Great.
Lots of people bemoan the sexism of bikini... →
Shared by iomegadrive
Well duh.
Lots of people bemoan the sexism of bikini drenched beer ads and overtly sexual marketing. Turns out, the marketers might just be rationally exploiting a fact of…
BitTorrent’s plan: Ride the video wave to the bank →
For almost a year, a private war of sorts has been waged on the tubes of the Internet: A handful of large Internet service providers, challenged by the traffic loads caused by…
Delicious Library 2 →
Pretty awesome. Great way to catalog all your IRL stuff and keep tabs on it all.
Steam Update to Add Online File Storage →
Valve’s “near future” update to the firm’s Steam service, dubbed “Steam Cloud,” will offer players the chance to store game settings and save files online, reports MaximumPC. Data…
Naveen Jain’s Latest Scam: Intelius →
Oh InfoSpace. And Fenwick should definitely be looking for this kind of stuff.
Marie Curie Actions: Chemical Party | Creativity... →
The nerd in me approves.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: How Me Breaking Up... →
Hilarity ensues!
Revision3 Sends FBI after MediaDefender →
The popular Internet television network Revision3 suffered from a severe DDoS attack, launched by the infamous anti-piracy organization MediaDefender. After targeting The Pirate Bay’s trackers,…
Revision3 gets DDOS by MediaDefender →
Scary media companies… Crazy how this is even legal. Hope they seek damages from MediaDefender.
Yahoo Plans to Take on Gears, Air and Prism →
Yahoo is following the footsteps of other technology giants by launching its own desktop/web hybrid application called BrowserPlus. The plug-in is only available as a sneak peak with a few…
Flash Exploit Shows the Dark Side of Web 2.0 →
Yesterday’s news of an exploit in Flash that gives hackers the ability to redirect a web site’s visitors to malware-laden servers highlights one of the biggest dangers and problems around the…
Twitter: Still not working, but explaining why on... →
Twitter Status →
Hahaha, okay, so wait, let me get this straight. Twitter is down all the time. They need to communicate outages and issues to the user base. What do they do? They create a status blog… only it’s using the twitter platform to publish the status updates. So when it goes down they are going to let people know via the platform that is down? Man, I love twitter. Without it, web news...
Yahoo Plans to Take on Gears, Air and Prism →
Yahoo is following the footsteps of other technology giants by launching its own desktop/web hybrid application called BrowserPlus. The plug-in is only available as a sneak peak with a few…
New exploits target Flash →
Filed under: News items, Account Security
According to reports, a new wave of exploits has appeared taking advantage of a vulnerability Adobe Flash Player. Allegedly over 200,000 web…
Flash Exploit Shows the Dark Side of Web 2.0 →
Yesterday’s news of an exploit in Flash that gives hackers the ability to redirect a web site’s visitors to malware-laden servers highlights one of the biggest dangers and problems around the…
The League of Public Domain Properties →
Why every guy should buy their girlfriend Wii Fit. →
Awesome.
Dunkin Donuts Pulls Ad Featuring Rachael Ray In A... →
The age of jingoism is back!
When I get to Congress
fillup: I love how the most Orwellian acts of Congress often have some bogus backronym that makes it seem like it will DEFINITELY accomplish its intended purpose. Examples: The infamous USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001) The as-yet unpassed CARTER Act — meant to prevent taxpayer dollars...
Tobold's MMORPG Blog: Exploits and bad balancing →
In RE: http://dromano.tumblr.com/post/36260064/game-mechanics-applied-to-social-media-application This kind of sums up my issues with traditional game mechanics being used for traditional types of software. In games, there are the inherent obstacles that delay someone from becoming level-capped. This delay, coupled with the game mechanics, makes a game successful/sticky. If the game mechanics are...
Man Allegedly Bilks E-trade, Schwab of $50,000 by... →
Haha, I was referencing a line that Michael Bolton says in Office Space… :p fillup: And, HELLO IOMEGADRIVE, Office Space. iomegadrive: Didn’t they do this is Superman III?
Man Allegedly Bilks E-trade, Schwab of $50,000 by... →
Didn’t they do this is Superman III?
An interesting-sounding documentary, on a row... →
An interesting-sounding documentary, on a row between two schools of balloon twisters. (Some examples of the craft.) From the NYT:
“Twisted: A Balloonamentary” examines the world of…
New StarCraft II Screens Revealed →
Further fanning the flames of fan fervor (and my ability to unnecessarily alliterate) Blizzard has released a new batch of screens from the upcoming StarCraft II. I lifted a few of my…
Minor League Player Traded for Ten Baseball Bats →
And no, this is not an Onion article.
Clinton demands Mars delegates be seated →
The Clinton campaign is inssiting that the Democratic National Committee seat the delegates from Mars at the Democratic Party convention in Denver.
Nasty Keyboard →
This is one sick looking keyboard! Yummy!
Brian Solis’ and Loic Le Meur’s real “PR” secrets →
Brian Solis just wrote a guest post for TechCrunch in which he gave away many of the secrets of the PR industry. Every entrepreneur and even every product manager inside a big company should…
12 Secrets of Public Relations for Startups →
Public Relations is experiencing a long overdue renaissance and its forcing PR stereotypes out from behind the curtain where they operated comfortably for far too many decades. It didn’t begin this…
Microsoft: Don't Cut Off the Long Tail →
What on Earth is Microsoft thinking? Consider the case of Asteroids Deluxe, above. Maybe it’s not the most popular game on Xbox Live Arcade, but surely there are some people out there…
HILLARY RAISES ASSASSINATION ISSUE - New York Post →
Whaaa?
If you need proof that Cooks.com lets anyone... →
If you need proof that Cooks.com lets anyone submit recipes:
Wiener water soup
1 pkg. wieners 3 c. water
Combine wieners and water in a two quart saucepan. Bring to a boil until wieners are…
In commercials for Domino's Pizza, the chain's... →
In commercials for Domino’s Pizza, the chain’s employees wage a never ending battle against the Noid, a gremlin who delays deliveries and carries a gun that can turn a pizza ice cold. Many viewers…
Tabs, Used Right: The 13 Usability Guidelines... →
Off-the-Record Messaging →
Thank goodness for OTR!
One Million See McCain's YouTube Problem! →
The real McCain?
Penny Arcade PC Demo has arrived →
Download the demo version of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness.