Archive for October, 2008



Nintendo News Round-up

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Kotaku rounds up their coverage of last night's Nintendo event.  The important stuff: Nintendo DSi, because the lack of a camera was killing the DS The world demanded more Punch-Out Re-releasing GameCube games to confuse people Saving games to the SD slot almost solves a problem The larger screen on the DSi might be nice. ...

Tim Bray on Obama

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Tim Bray: Obama doesn’t have that much of a track record, as the Republicans point out. But we do know two things about him: First, he’s a damn good salesman. Second, he’s an outstanding manager. His built-from-scratch campaign organization went mano a mano with the mighty Clinton machine and won, and is now ...

Apple Drops iPhone NDA

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Never underestimate the power of mass complaining.  Apple is dropping the NDA for released iPhone software: We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we ...

XMPP Poetry

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Jack Moffitt has released Poetry, a small set of command line XMPP tools.  The project is still young, but Jack has released the code under the GPL, so anyone can contribute to it.

Wii HD in 2011

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

That's the rumor, anyway. As you can tell by the name, it'll get Nintendo back in the graphics saddle by opting for HD visuals. There'll be a "greater emphasis" on digital delivery and backwards compatability. There'll again be an emphasis on the system's controller, rather than the system itself. And it'll ...