July 2008
Diablo 3 design fundamentals →
At the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, Diablo 3 lead designer Jay Wilson, presented a rundown of the design philosophy behind the game, covering its origins, the game’s approachability, and the…
I easily set a new record in the month of June for my number of Tweets. New total is 604 at the moment …previous record was 535.
I’m not such a fan of Spanish wines when it comes to just sipping. They tend to be a bit too aggressive/spicy for my liking.
http://is.gd/J98 Windows Steady State created a temporary cache of your operating system that you can just flush to reset back to beginning
The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating →
An unusual list of foods that probably aren’t in your shopping cart.
June 2008
10 web design books you probably missed but owe yourself to read http://tinyurl.com/6cm9jo
http://www.safenow.org/ hilarious! especially the Michael Jackson one.
I’m just a snotty coughing mess today. Allergy meds really don’t seem to be doing the trick (duh, obviously).
CSS Variables are …. here! (how many times have you wanted to use variables? such good news!) http://tinyurl.com/62rydb
Top Eight Movie Sociopaths →
From Joe Pesci to Hannibal the Cannibal, why do we love nutters in films, so much?
The More You Play With it, the Harder it Gets... →
Old Sega ad using sexual innuendos. Never seen this one before…
Disney's WALL-E wows box office →
“WALL-E,” bolstered by near-unanimous critical praise, sold an estimated $62.5 million of tickets in its first three days, said Pixar’s Walt Disney Co parent.
Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and... →
Stubble is the way to win a woman’s heart, a study has shown. Researchers found that women are more attracted to men with stubbly chins than those with clean-shaven faces or full beards
No-Hit Win by Dodgers Makes No Sense, Except in... →
Baseball is the best game in part because every night you go to the ballpark, you might see something you’ve never seen before. No other sport can say that like baseball can, and Saturday night at…
Valve: Why the PC is the future →
Valve mastermind Gabe Newell and his cohorts had an ulterior motive for bringing reporters together, however, and unusually for an ulterior motive, it wasn’t a wholly self-interested one. It was…
Leaked Screen Shots Of Mythical Digg... →
Digg has been talking up a new Recommendation Engine that intelligently suggests new stories to users for almost a year. TC has some details and a couple of leaked screen shots, which may or may not…
Digg Recommendation Engine Rolling Out This Week... →
“We’re launching the Digg Recommendation Engine beginning this week. The feature will be in beta and presented to registered Digg users first, based on a random sampling of logged-in users.”
Oscar Campaign Begins for Heath Ledger →
An early whispering campaign has already begun in Hollywood for a posthumous Oscar to be awarded to Heath Ledger for his brilliant performance of the villainous Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark…
In Pictures: America's Oldest Neighborhoods →
Philadelphia, PA. Society Hill and Queen Village — After William Penn went to great pains to design an English-style grid for his city, residents rushed to develop the Delaware River area by…
Pixar's first short... unbelievably made in 1984 →
Can you believe this was made 25 years ago?
The Bush Regime steps up its secret moves against... →
“Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran”
Make Twitter Your Social Aggregator: Create An... →
10 web design books you probably missed but owe... →
CSS Variables are …. here! →
Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells (can’t say I’m shocked.) http://tinyurl.com/3zdplc
wtf? I just updated MS Mac Office 2008 and now I can’t open any of the applications. It just keeps loading the AutoUpdate checker instead
and just like that half of the day is gone…amazing. (I’m not complaining, just a bit shocked)
Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League (interesting comparison.) http://tinyurl.com/5sleyn
GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers →
A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn’t just any GoDaddy employee; he’s head of the GoDaddy subsidiary…
Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League →
Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells →
xkcd - Know Your Vines →
decided to get a little sneaky (and paranoid), and installed a key scrambler at work. I don’t like the idea of *possibily* being spied on.
I’m on a roll so far today…already 14 updates (this will be 15) to Twitter this morning.
I think Twitter increased the API limit? Twhirl is reporting 70 requests per hour at the moment…can that be correct?
Leaked Screen Shots Of Mythical Digg... →
Five tasks for Microsoft post-Bill →
allergies are destroying me this morning, but I’m trying not to care all that much…
general feeling this morning is basically summed up as: :) … 3 more days, 2 more nights. that is all.
blocking a few spammer requests on Twitter. not doing too bad on spammers…only maybe 1-2 spammers per week
only 2 more nights of sleeping alone…thank god…
wow, definitely could have/would have slept for another few hours easily. feeling exhausted this morning…coffee here I come!
10 Spectacular Cockpit Photos →
An amazing collection of shots from the cockpit of aircraft around the world.
watching the olympic trials…really really bored.
Starcraft II info explosion! →
From WWI session: See what team Blizzard had to say about the newfound power of the Zerg Queen, the upgraded Protoss Mothership and the reason behind de-emphasizing heroic classes.
Yeah, so that plan definitely failed.
Headed home in the rain… Hail tonight supposedly.
Mets are up 2-0 bottom of the 6th…niiiice.
doing very little, hoping the massive thunderstorm on the radar actually hits us
Motorola Blaze for Verizon: the touch screen war... →
