March 19, 2008
Arthur C. Clarke died at age 90 in Sri Lanka.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm
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March 3, 2008
I saw this posted over at digg.
There’s over two hours of music and it’s all instrumental. $0 for the first 9 tracks, $5 for the full downloadable version, $10 for a 2 CD set + the downloadable version, $75(!) for the deluxe version that comes with too much for me to list here (I’m lazy), and a $300(!!) version that comes with everything in the deluxe version plus a vinyl copy and some artwork. Artwork as in actual prints, not the stuff that comes with a normal CD.
Oh, and it’s all released under a Creative Commons Atrribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.
I’m trying to get a copy, but the site is getting hammered.
February 29, 2008
Will Wright (designer of The Sims) gave a demonstration of Spore’s space exploration phase at NASA Ames Research Center. The footage of the game is really neat, but there’s not a lot that hasn’t been seen elsewhere already. More interesting to me was the Q&A session at the end of the clip, where he discusses design decisions, exporting creatures to a 3D printer, and balancing realism with making the game fun to play.
The video is also up at Gametrailers.com.
February 24, 2008
EA wants to buy Take-Two (plus, I’m trying out the ScribeFire plug-in for Firefox).
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EA’s Proposal To Acquire Take-Two Interactive Software
EA wants to buy Take-Two Interactive, who publish the Grand Theft Auto games. Bioshock, Civilization, a bunch of sports games, and is set to publish Duke Nukem Forever (who am I kidding? This is never coming out). This seems like a reaction to Activision’s purchase of Vivendi/Blizzard and would give EA a nice stable of games to counter ActBlizz’s World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero games. This also follows EA’s purchases of Bioware and Pandemic, two studios that are responsible for some of my favorite games.
(I’m mostly posting this uninteresting piece of brain-drool to try out the ScribeFire plug-in for Firefox. Seems pretty neat.)
January 30, 2008
…but I found this link posted on Digg and can’t stop: http://robotmantheblog.com/2006/10/25/so-i-guess-i-got-kicked-off-another-my-little-pony-forum/.
Choice quotes:
“..your picture of Stalin riding Year3 Limited Edition Starflower inside a German concentration camp was both upsetting and historically inaccurate.”
“The first generation of MLP’s were made by Hasbro, not the Khmer Rouge. And Hasbro hasn’t made toys out of human skulls since the 1960’s.”
January 20, 2008
It seems that H.P. Lovecraft’s stories are one of those things where you either love it or you hate it, with little middle ground in between. I happen to love his stories, which is why I got excited when I ran across the news that The Whisperer in Darkness is being adapted as a period piece movie by The H.P Lovecraft Historical Society. I also realized that I haven’t seen their first movie adaptation, The Call of Cthulhu, which is a silent film. I need to correct that mistake.
The Whisperer in Darkness trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQkos7WTHjg
The Call of Cthulhu trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqV5gu_Xs4Q
December 21, 2007
I’ve decided to try out Twitter.com, which is kind of like a mini-blog. Each entry has to be 140 characters or less in length and can be accessed through an Atom feed. I’ve put up a widget that will display my twitter posts on the sidebar.
October 19, 2007
The total filesystem capacity in the pic is double what it should be because my Windows partition was mounted. I found out that something was wrong when a nice little message popped up on the desktop informing me that my disk space for / was low.
September 23, 2007
A couple of months ago my Xbox 360 broke. I’m not under warranty for some reason and I’m not paying $140 to get it fixed, so it’s been sitting under my TV while I tried to figure out what to do with it. Last night I ran across this pdf that describes how to fix an Xbox that has the symptoms that I’ve been seeing. I went out and got the parts, followed the instructions, and now my 360 seems to be working again. Before, it would give me the Red Ring of Death almost immediately upon startup. Now, I’m able to watch movies and get online without any problems (so far). I traded in all of my games when the thing broke, so I haven’t been able to test it with any games yet. Hopefully this fixes it for a while.
