May 2010
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Steam, Steam, Steam.
I knew this would be a love/hate relationship from the start.
You see, Steam for Mac, I love your games. Well, some of them. A lot of them are crap. But the ones your parents, Valve, made, like Portal and the Half-Life series, are unparalleled. Team Fortress 2 seemed like great stylish fun when I tried it briefly (under Windows), although it’s not really my thing. And you distribute some...
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Final Fantasy XIII: The Empire Strikes Back begins with the main protagonist, a former soldier, riding a train with their astonishingly stereotypical black sidekick to go fight an evil authority of some description. Wait a girlfriend-impaling second: haven’t we been here before? Well, yes, twelve extremely “final” times. But the seventh outing more than any other. Of course,...
This could be bad
If you try to break a car window with a hammer, you’ll have a hard time, but if you throw a bit of porcelain from a spark plug at it with only moderate force, the window shatters. This is because porcelain (being a type of ceramic) is harder than tempered glass, but steel isn’t.
Occasionally I find myself setting my iPhone down on my iPad. Sometimes I gently toss it, because what the...
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Watch20-minute video. I know, I know. Today’s Saturday, so what the hell.
It’s an incredibly impassioned and moving talk Dean Kamen gave in 2009 at a TED spinoff called TEDMED. Yeah, Kamen is the Segway guy, but that’s pretty much the least interesting thing about him. His latest project is developing fully articulated artificial arms for the more than 1600 soldiers who’ve...
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Billy Joel's daughter tried to OD on homeopathic... →
nickdouglas:
She was rushed to the hospital, but they said “Man, what are you doin’ here?”
Here’s a video of my hero James Randi taking a lethal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills live onstage at TED in 2007. (He’s still alive.)
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How interesting.
Today one of my web development clients asked me to provide an estimate for, among other tasks, “Removal of Flash programming to allow for web site readability on Apple devices.”
It has begun.
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Facebook is like a cab driver.
Every time Facebook takes a giant dump on its users’ privacy, people are surprised. How can Facebook care so little about privacy? It’s not like they’re new at this, and besides, we’re the users. We’re the whole reason they’re in business in the first place. Our privacy should be their chief concern. Right?
Everyone loves a nice speedy cab ride. You even tip...
Tumblr Radar shown to be carefully curated,...
California is outlawing Happy Meals! Huge news! Awesome headline! Let’s get that on Radar pronto!
Oh, but they’re not outlawing Happy Meals, just the toys.
And it’s not California, it’s one county in California.
Parts of one county, I mean.
Oh and it’s not a law; it’s a proposal that’s still under consideration.
The Radar is fun, and...