November 2007
Thinking about getting a Nokia N800, I likely the supreme hackablity of it. However, its not nearly as slick as an iPod Touch, opinions?
Excited that Xbox is finally getting Divx support
Fall Dashboard Update Details →
Go ahead and say I’m biased, but Xbox LIVE is the best online service for a console, period. They say the proof is in the pudding, so enjoy a giant bowl of delicious Xbox LIVE pudding as we talk about some of the new features in the Fall Update.
While we have already talked about the new Parental Timer, Games on Demand, and the Friends of Friends features, the lovely and talented Nelson has...
No El Camino for you! Pontiac pickup will be named... →
Filed under: Trucks/Pickups, Pontiac, Australia
Mike Levine over at Pickuptruck.com has managed to scoop a tasty nugget of info about the Pontiac-branded ute that will soon be for sale in the U.S. The Aussie-import based on the same platform as the rear-wheel-drive G8 sedan will be called the G8 ST, as in “Sport Truck”. That pang of disappointment you feel is the missed opportunity...
@cspenn This nofollow nonsense has got to stop.
Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update detailed: DivX,... →
Filed under: Features, Microsoft Xbox 360
Things were a little different this year. For their second Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update, Microsoft decided to trickle the features out instead of dropping them on us all at once. Around Halloween, we realized things were awful quiet, so we asked you what you wanted to see in the Fall Update. On November 7, Microsoft kicked things off by announcing...
Rumor: GameSpot Editor Fired Over Low Review Score →
Numerous sources are reporting tonight that Jeff Gerstmann, a longtime editor at game enthusiast publication GameSpot, was let go from the site yesterday — over, of all things, his review of the game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. Sources say that when Eidos, the publisher of the game, saw Gerstmann’s 6.0 review score, they threatened to pull all of their advertising from the site....
Attack of the interns: recommendations and... →
One of the great things about Reader, and feed readers in general, is that they let you follow sites much more efficiently than you could just by visiting them directly. This means that once you get into the flow of it, you can subscribe and keep track of many more sites than before. The problem then becomes: what should you subscribe to? For example, there are millions of blogs, and while a few...
Vancouver 2010 Olympic mascots include a Sasquatch →
Drawn! ran Meomi’s fabulous designs for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic mascots. They just need to add a ‘frop pipe in that Yeti’s mouth and all will be good.
Leave it to Canada to have a cryptozoological beastie like a sasquatch as its Olympic mascot. Earlier today Vancouver 2010 unveiled their Olympic and Paralympic mascots: Quatchi the Sasquatch, Miga the Sea Bear, and Sumi the...
Vancouver 2010 Olympic mascots include a Sasquatch →
Drawn! ran Meomi’s fabulous designs for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic mascots. They just need to add a ‘frop pipe in that Yeti’s mouth and all will be good.
Leave it to Canada to have a cryptozoological beastie like a sasquatch as its Olympic mascot. Earlier today Vancouver 2010 unveiled their Olympic and Paralympic mascots: Quatchi the Sasquatch, Miga the Sea Bear, and Sumi the...
@conniecrosby Hello connie’s class!
Golden Gate bridge accident averted by selfless... →
Filed under: Etc.
We don’t particularly enjoy posting about auto accidents, as totaled cars and injured humans is never a good conversation starter. Every once in a while, though, we get an opportunity to post about a crash that didn’t happen thanks to the quick thinking and selfless nature of a good samaritan. Such a near miss happened yesterday in San Francisco when a driver on the...
Is Computer Science Dying →
Well that is a pretty dramatic title. I didn’t think it up myself though. I’m not so pessimistic. It is the title of a post I read recently though. There does seem to be a lot of bad news in the field of Computer Science these days. I also read recently that Cambridge University in England is having trouble attracting as many computer science students as they would like. One quote...
Comic for 29 Nov 2007 →
And I am an overachiever! →
Today’s comic is dedicated to my friend Robbie whom hates Bullet Witch. Oh, how he hates Bullet Witch. He hates it so very much.
A lot of us are guilty of playing crappy 360 games just for the achievements. I myself am even guilty of said crime. That’s the only reason I ever played King Kong, Madden ‘06 and Open Season was for the easy achievement points… okay, Open...
Finally, Wireless Competition Explodes in Canada →
Shove over Rogers, Bell and Telus. In announcing the rules to the upcoming (May 2008) advanced spectrum auction, industry minister Jim Prentice has blasted open the doors to new wireless competition in Canada. Here is a quick overview of the new rules:
40 of the 105 available megahertz will be set aside for new entrants
Incumbents will be required to allow roaming on their networks at...
@krashcoarse Twitterberry looks pretty good. I installed it because of your Tweet actually. I can nott get the Facebook client for my BB :-(
Why does visual studio think its ok to not let me hit backspace?
Blogs Can Download and Use Copyrighted Images from... →
Stock photography website Corbis is allowing bloggers to download their pictures on blogs for free without having to worry about “copyright infringement” - in return Corbis will embed a banner ad beneath the photograph or image.
There exists dozens of stock photography websites offering royalty free pictures at no cost but the Corbis advantage is that they have tie ups with big news agencies...
Standing in line to get lunch
“Dilbert” on Extreme and Agile Programming →
Recent posts on Reddit have pointed to a number of Dilbert comic strips poking fun at extreme and agile programming; I thought I’d gather them in one place. Here they are, posted for your enjoyment (for as long as I escape the notice of United Feature Syndicate):
@chartier I’m a big fan of Yoko Kanno as well. And love lots of the Anime her music is featured on
Testing out twitterberry
Network →
@vveerrgg Sadly the code only works with the US iTunes store
Strictly No Photography →
Strictly no photography is a photo-sharing site for photographs taken where you are not allowed to take them. From the inside of the Kremlin to Kensington palace, from art galleries to war zones, Strictly no photography aims to show you everything you’ve ever wanted to see that you’re not supposed to.
Guitar Hero For The Commodore 64 [Hacks] →
The Commodore 64’s fondly remembered SID audio chip seems like a perfect match for a retro rhythm game, doesn’t it? It seems that Toni Westbrook thinks so, as he’s fashioned the PSX64 controller adapter to work with a Guitar Hero guitar controller—the PlayStation 2 type—and is hard at work on the C64 port of the game. Lo-fi hacking at its best.
Shredz64 [The Shredz64 Project...
Sink or Swim: Managing RSS Feeds with Better... →
Besides baseball, coffee, and my music collection, I probably obsess over how I read RSS feeds more than anything. Sometimes it feels like I tinker with the setup more than I actually read the news, but I’m making progress. I won’t claim to be completely satisfied with how or why I try to consume so much information from the internet, but lately I’ve been as content with the process as I can...
Mass Effect... →
… rocks. No, it’s not a perfect game… but it’s certainly as engrossing as Bioshock in my opinion, and well worth your time.
On the good side you have a classic Bioware story, excellent writing, and a fantastic conversation system that really sets a new bar for virtual character conversations. Seriously - it sets a new bar that you’ll see other games follow.
On the...
Dare’s right about Facebook Beacon →
One of the things I sorta tried to ignore over the past week has been the hubub about Facebook’s new advertising strategy. But it’s gotten too loud to ignore. This is evil. I’d write more, but Dare Obasanjo says it better than I could.
Facebook: rethink this feature and make it a LOT more clear about when things will share your buying behavior (and controllable).
Some Thoughts on the Facebook Beacon →
Recently I’ve read a number of negative posts about the Facebook Beacon which highlight how easy it is for a company to completely misjudge the privacy implications and ramifications of certain features in social software applications. Charlene Li, a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research who specializing in social software trends and marketing, writes in her blog post Close encounter with...
Nyko's Perfect Shot Wiimote accessory -- less toy,... →
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Those who found the Zapper a tad too childish for their sadistic imaginations should probably adore Nyko’s alternative, as the Perfect Shot Gun doesn’t dumb down its appearance whatsoever. Rather, this Wiimote attachment resembles an actual pistol in most every way — save for the plastic shell, vivid accents and its inability to fire actual...
TiVo in Canada, you hoser →
Oh hey. Ya, they got them TiVo in Canada now, you betcha. You can get a Series 2 dual-tuner DVR for $199 CAD or $10,223 USD, considering the exchange rate. You also got to get yourself a TiVo subscription, ya, and it’ll be available at Best Buy, The Brick, Ye Olde Maple and Moose Shoppes, Beer ‘n’ Pancakes ‘n’ DVRs, Bruce’s Hockey and Electronics Store, and Geez It’s Got a Low Price, Dave.
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@tommyvallier I’ve got all of my photos safe and sound on Flickr. It definitely makes me feel safe.
Make your car greener with Grass on the Dash →
Filed under: Etc., Green
Year after year there are hucksters trying to sell miracle devices that reduce your fuel consumption. They’re almost always proven to be complete shams. But now you can truly make your car greener for less than the cost of a tank of gas. Pot your favorite flora in the Grass on the Dash planter and offset some of that carbon belched out by your gas-guzzler. If...
Expand Your Xbox LIVE Network of Pals by browsing... →
Expand Your Xbox LIVE Network of Pals by browsing the Friends lists of other Xbox LIVE members
New Experience to be made available on December 4th with the Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update
Microsoft is making it even easier to expand your Friends network on Xbox LIVE, starting with the Fall Dashboard Update on December 4th. Members will now be able to check out the friends lists of fellow...
Celebrity Star Wars photoshopping contest →
Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest: shopping celebrity faces onto Star Wars characters. Link
Blog Nothing Day: No Thanks. →
Blogger, Interactive Marketing Specialist, and Pop Culture Enthusiast Jason Verwey seems to think the best way to help the Writer’s Guild with their strike is to do nothing. Literally. I’m not sure if he’s the first person to come up with the idea since the start of this most recent strike, but it is the mostly widely adopted, best as I can tell: the Blog Nothing Day.
Jason says that it is in...
A Different Problem with Subscription →
Aside from the misconception using the word “subscription” and people thinking you have to pay to subscribe to your podcast or blog feed there is another problem with the system of subscribing to media. I came up with the idea, like many others I have, when I was in the shower and thinking about loosing track of people on Twitter and not seeing blog posts from some of my friends in a while.
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