March 2010
snopes.com: Elementary School Production of... →
That elementary school play of Scarface? Fake.
You all just fell for what was basically a new media chain letter. Forward this post to 7 people or else you will have bad luck for 7 years.
Miegakure: A puzzle-platforming game in four... →
This game sounds like it’s in the same vein as Braid. As in, fascinating, a ton of fun, and excruciatingly difficult.
“Think about a two-dimensional character living on a horizontal, flat two-dimensional plane. To this character,height would be a foreign concept. A number of actions we three-dimensional beings take for granted feel like absolute magic to this two-dimensional...
Ceton InfiniTV 4 CableCARD tuner review --... →
This makes the gadget fiend in me drool. I need this.
Senate Democrats get beat up by their own... →
This is just politics. If the GOP had any intention of doing anything but stonewalling, these issues would have been debated. But since the GOP strategy was to make this Obama’s Waterloo, the Democrats had no other strategy except to use reconciliation.
What you should actually be concerned about is the fact that the GOP knew the Democrats would never accept any of these amendments because...
Genocide and Jedi: why the Sith may be right in... →
I might have to break my fast and try this Star Wars MMO. It looks too good.
Republican commentator David Frum loses job after... →
Right on cue, too.
fillup:
More evidence that David Frum is too smart for today’s Republican party.
Just Cause 2 "LOST" Easter Egg →
Really awesome how they rendered the island into the game like that. Perfect for gamers + LOST fans.
GOP Senators Refusing To Work Past 2PM, Invoking... →
Wow, so many potential sound bites here; the troops, veterans, homeless, judges. Yikes GOP, smart play here.
Tumblr Rolls Out Make Money Plan Part 2: Beautiful... →
Hurray, yay for Tumblr!
Sprint HTC EVO 4G: Hands on wrap up – Android and... →
Wow. This phone looks awesome. I wants.
“Could a deal have been reached? Who knows? But we do know that the gap between...”
– Waterloo | FrumForum (via fillup)
This is what happens when you excuse yourself from the process; by having no part of the process, the other side gets to do what they want. The GOP lost any chance of making this bill work with their values when they decided their tactic was to stonewall. It almost...
MakeMKV Rips DVDs and Blu-Rays With Just Two... →
Spectacular for backing up my whole DVD/Blu-Ray collection!
Why are the signs at New York's Penn Station so... →
I’ve been that person; in an unknown train station, you’re running late, the last train of the night is leaving soon (when you’re late, it’s always the last train of the night), you don’t know where the platform is (sometimes it’s odds on one side, evens on the other, sometimes it’s linear), all of the signs don’t make sense (oftentimes contradictory...
Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts →
Reading this actually made me search their site to see where I could sign up for their newsletter. I know, right?
SeriesSeed.com →
Free and open sourced legal documents for seed round investments. Perfect for investors & startups alike!
“The Series Seed Documents should reduce both the time and cost of a financing transaction. It should go without saying, but time and money are the two things most vital to a young company.
From an investor’s perspective, while moving away from the traditional full-blown...
The Think blog. » Thoughts on the ergonomics of... →
Interesting perspective on the ergonomics of the iPad. I’ve not used one (and the author probably hasn’t either), but looking at the video clip he mentions, two-handed interactions do look awkward. Something I’ve not thought about before while admiring the iPad.
It took me a couple of views to really see what the user was doing because I was distracted by the example video. But...
“Call to Action” Buttons: Guidelines, Best... →
“Call to action buttons on websites are often neglected. Designers sometimes don’t understand exactly what makes a good call to action button beyond being attractive and fitting into the overall design. But call to action buttons are too important to be designed without some kind of understanding of what makes them effective. After all, the main point of a call to action button is to get...
Danger Will Robinson! Rackspace cloud stores your... →
I cannot verify this first hand, and I hope that this guy is just a fear monger and will happily update this post if that turns out to be the case, but if this IS true, this is super scary.
Edward Hill / Russian Rickroll | Know Your Meme →
The background of the Trololo fad. I love you so much internets.
Warren Buffet's Annual Letter to Shareholders →
It might be because I’ve only been reading these letters for the past three years, but it always amazes me that so much of his smarts comes from his intuitive grasp of common sense and how it relates to the the businesses he owns. Just a really smart, sensible man, who knows b.s. when he sees it.
“In my view a board of directors of a huge financial institution is derelict if it does...
Intel's Core i7-980X Launches with a Bang →
Wow. I want this so badly. 3.33GHz, 6-core processor. Need.
GDC 2010: Ngmoco justifies the freemium model →
Ngmoco discusses their freemium model and the balance between allowing users to purchase functional in-game elements versus traditionally allowing users to only purchase cosmetic elements.
This balance is something they need to nail down and get just right, because if it gets wildly out of control, gamers will cry bullshit and abandon ship.
“I think what freemium allows us to do is...
“The first 2-3 things people do on your product should make it obvious what your...”
– Twitter / Luke Wroblewski (via colin) (via hiten)
It's settled. There will never be enough hours in...
Ask Reddit: If you became the last person on... →
This whole comment takes epic to another level.
A small sampling:
“Before Anything: Eat Exotic Fresh Fruits while they are around. They come from so far away that, odds are depending where you live, you will never ever get to have Banana, Pomegranite, Starfruit or Mango again in your life. Savor every bite.”
Amazing, right? I kind of want Hollywood to option the rights and make this...
Stop ENDA or, uhm, God will steal the sun. Or... →
Good lord, the FUD on ENDAHurtsKids.com is overwhelming. Saddened, but not at all surprised, that it exists.
“Southern Poverty Law Center hate group The Traditional Values Coalition has a new website designed solely for the purpose of stopping the Employment NonDiscrimination Act. So considering this is the far-right we’re talking about, all of the text and imagery on said new site...
WatchThis CollegeHumor video is hilarious. It also reminds me of my youth. Oh how I wish I had that much free time again to play that many games.
thedailywhat:
CollegeHumor Original of the Day: Final bosses from across Videogameland gather up their minions to ask one simple question: How in the World 1-1 are they being slaughtered en masse by a single goddamn guy?!
[collegehumor.]
Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod →
Absolutely great article on books and publishing in the new iPad age.
“What does this mean? Well, most obviously that a 1:1 digital adaptation of Definite Content books will now be possible. However, I don’t think this is a solution we should blindly embrace. Definite Content in printed books is laid outspecifically for that canvas, that page size. While the iPad may be similar in physical...
OMG TRON TRAILER →
The nerd in me just exploded in excitement and joy. This movie looks like it’s going for that gritty reboot style of the Nolan Batman’s, but still trying to keep it’s 80s roots intact. I dig it.
“Americans struggling with obesity epidemics have for years wondered how the...”
– Teaching Kids to Eat Healthily: School Food in France - TIME
(via @marielock)
(via fillup)
Playful Design: Interview with Dennis Crowley,... →
“Designers are starting to realize that they can use game mechanics to get users to do things they wouldn’t do otherwise. You could make a game out of seeing all of the Oscar-nominated movies before the awards, or seeing all of the bands your friends have recommended to you.
Of course those things are kind of trivial, but there are other things you could get people to do that become...
REVIEW: Kane & Lynch
You are a horrible, horrible game. I am not sure I want to keep you in my Steam library, next to my other good games.
You are boring.
Your controls suck.
3rd person with the character off center sucks.
Your weapons are lame.
You tried to be like the movie Heat, but failed.
You’re either a realistic shooter or a fun shooter; you can’t be both.
Just because the characters are...
Trying out Tableau Public today →
We use the enterprise software @JibJab. This looks like a more streamlined, consumer facing version. Probably not without its limitations, but for some simple data visualization, it might be enough.
It might be a sign that I am getting older
but I find it weird whenever someone calls me “bro” or the more emphasized “brahh”.
“Dude” though, dude I can take all day long.
Started playing Just Cause today.
And promptly stopped.
I remember now why these sandbox/GTA clones aren’t for me. I get bored of the super weak main storyline after about thirty minutes and then devolve to just running people over. Sorry. There might be a game in there, but it’s just super boring.
Updated: Whoops, typo’ed the title of the game. See? It was that unmemorable. Hat tip @fillup
Op-Ed Columnist - The Wal-Mart Hippies -... →
David Brooks is the man. He’s a guy you would love to talk politics with, because he’s just so level headed. It would be a political discussion that wouldn’t end up with both parties yelling at each other. (via fillup)