Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 15th, 2008
This fan video is cute, but it's also pretty good.
(Via Snarkmarket)
Posted in Video, Web |
Friday, August 15th, 2008
The first sentence of Entertainment Weekly's Clone Wars review really says everything I need to know about the movie:
George Lucas is turning into the enemy of fun.
Posted in Movies, Star Wars |
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Beautiful new brand design from Pentagram.
Posted in Design |
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Along with the RSS feed, which any modern browser has already made available to you, there are a few other ways of collecting updates about Better Elevation.
BE Twitter Stream
Friendfeed Room
My Twitter Stream
I'll spare you the links to Plurk, Brightkite, identi.ca, and so on.
Posted in Social, Web |
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Kotaku:
Here are Lucasarts, supposedly working on the "ultimate lightsaber game" for the Wii, and they're kept in the dark over technology that could have turned a combat game with waggle into an actual ultimate lightsaber game? No wonder they're not happy!
Nintendo seems determined to squander their success and their following all over again. ...
Posted in Games |
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
From EuroGamer, an extremely well-written review of my new favorite game.
Posted in Games |
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Finally, the killer iPhone app. MobileChat is available in the App Store for $2.99, and assuming it works, should be worth every penny. The overwhelming pent-up demand for a real multi-protocol IM application is taking its toll on twenty08's servers right now, but things are expected to normalize in the next ...
Posted in Apple, XMPP |
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Live Science, with an interesting article about the connection between cooking and brain development:
To understand what caused the cognitive spurt, Khaitovich and colleagues examined chemical brain processes known to have changed in the past 200,000 years. Comparing apes and humans, they found the most robust differences were for processes involved in ...
Posted in Food |
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Sci-Fi Wire has it that Indiana Jones and the Inexplicable Army of CGI Monkeys will be hitting DVD and Blu-ray stands on October 14th.
Separately, a new box set of all four Indiana Jones films will be released as "The Complete Adventure Collection," which will include the first three films and the special ...
Posted in Movies |
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Ryan Cross has expanded the purpose of the blog for his business, Cylence Web Design. Company news will still be posted, but the space will also be used for Rails tutorials and code sharing.
Posted in Design, Web |
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Amazon Prime. Quite possibly the best $79 I've ever spent.
As an Amazon affiliate program member, I received an email this morning suggesting that I pimp the Amazon Prime service. I have belonged to a lot of affiliate programs over the years, and I get these all the time. Usually they ...
Posted in Books, Business, Movies, Music, Software, Technology, Television, Toys, Video, Web |
Friday, August 8th, 2008
From AppleInsider:
Rather than offer the usual app deck, which often varies by the phone operating system (as with Apple's solution) and even from device to device, T-Mobile would reportedly offer a store that covers all its devices, from simple phones that only support Java apps to smartphone-level operating systems such as ...
Posted in Apple |
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Can't remember when you last fondled, ogled, or otherwise enjoyed breasts?. You must be a UNIX admin. But this exciting new addition to the Fake App Store, Boobclock, provides everything you need to re-live those fond memories.
As you can see below, Boobclock provides a pleasant interface and a totally rad piercing ...
Posted in Apple, Fake App Store |
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
The special effects are awesome!
Posted in Video |
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Via Corey Gilmore, the best Venn diagram ever.
Posted in Social, Web |