If you haven’t seen Serenity yet, go see it before you have to wait for it on DVD – then you can come over to my house and we’ll watch it on my projector. That is, if Sandy doesn’t kill you first. Its the best sci-fi movie to come out in a long time and […]
Prince of Persia was one of the first games that I was addicted to after I got my first PC ( a 386 ). It was a great combination of tough puzzles, beautiful animation, and an engrossing story. I haven’t played the new version that came out over the last two years, I’m kind of
Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing Consumers’ Activities DRM systems are empty vessels — they can enforce any rules copyright holders choose, or no rules at all. Apple’s DRM rules are liberal enough that few consumers object to them. In fact, obtaining relatively liberal DRM rules from the labels was the key to Apple’s
If you replace your phone in the next year, then the answer is yes. Communities Dominate Brands believes 2006 will be the year the iPod dies. Not necessarily because something technologically superior, but because cell phones are replaced so often and new models will have music playback built in. So a lot of people will
Have you heard people like Bill O’Reilly or government officials, or wondered yourself, how markets set prices? For things like, o say oil and gas. Read Prices as the Result of Human Action but Not of Human Design. While it’d be nice to be able to blame evil oil corporations for profiteering from high prices,
I quietly launched Soccer Blogs earlier this month but, after some useful critiques from my design friend Nam-ho, I tweaked the layout and added aggregate RSS and Atom feeds. I’ve been working on this, as time and World of Warcraft addiction allow, since mid summer. I wanted to try out aggregating feeds and, this is
Corey point me to a better South Park character generator, the results are pretty similar to the last image for us. You should also check out Sandy Smith and Corey and his girlfriend.
If, like me, you have a Debian box and are itching to try out Hula, last week Hula packages made it into the Unstable branch.
If you don’t read PvP very often, its got a pretty funny story arc starting here.
Scott Berkun, who designed and worked on the development of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versions 1 to 5, explains why he switched to Firefox. He has great praise for the design team, particularly those who have kept the browser focused on appealing to the mainstream user. “Firefox feels to me like what IE 6.0 should have