2010 Jan 21, 12:53"Of course the word "Amateur" comes from the French word "to love". Good enough reason for me to participate. And you?"
internet culture net-culture web social blog 2010 Jan 21, 4:25You cannot argue with his logic.
humor video garlic vampire news fail fail-blog 2010 Jan 20, 8:56I had no idea of the amount of variation: "The Tetris Guideline is the current specification that The Tetris Company enforces for making all new (2001 and later) Tetris game products alike in form."
Covers things like piece color, vocabulary, speeds, rotation system etc etc etc. I'll be adopting some of this in Polytope Tetris...
tetris wiki reference game videogame 2010 Jan 20, 5:19Stop motion animation in paper of Mario Bros. 3.
mario video videogame nintendo youtube animation paper stopmotion 2010 Jan 20, 3:26"I just found out they made a Ninja Turtles TV movie where the Turtles from the relatively dark 2003 cartoon meet the Turtles from the goofy 1987 cartoon"
cartoon humor teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles movie tv 2010 Jan 20, 2:35Video of augmented reality t-shirt that plays rock paper scissors against you.
video rock-paper-scissors t-shirt augmented-reality 2010 Jan 19, 2:21"In the latest of an occasional series of demoscene-related posts on GameSetWatch before, AteBit's Paul 'EvilPaul' Grenfell presents a multi-part retrospective on 2009's best demos - starting out
with the top ten real-time PC demos of the year."
demo demoscene graphic game videogame video programming 2010 Jan 19, 1:49Fonts are back in! "In this collection, we’d like to present an overview of 50 of the best Free, New and High-quality Modern, Handwritten, grunge, Cartoon style fonts for clean and professional
designs in 2009."
font typography text download design free 2010 Jan 18, 3:24"UVB-76 is the callsign of a shortwave radio station that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz (AM full carrier). It's known among radio listeners by the nickname The Buzzer. It features a
short, monotonous buzz tone (help·info), repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day. The station has been observed since around 1982.[1] In rare occasions, the
buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place. Only four such events have been noted. There is much speculation; however, the actual purpose of this station remains
unknown." Inspiration for Lost?
radio russia mystery 2010 Jan 18, 3:11Crayola's Law: "The number of colors doubles every 28 years!" With chart depicting Crayola colors over the years.
visualization via:waxy history timeline crayon crayola color 2010 Jan 15, 6:03The derivation of the word Zork.
history language english game if interactive-fiction zork mit 2010 Jan 15, 3:19"The .arpa domain is the “Address and Routing Parameter Area” domain and is designated to be used exclusively for Internet-infrastructure purposes. It is administered by the IANA in cooperation with
the Internet technical community under the guidance of the Internet Architecture Board. For the management guidelines and operational requirements of the .arpa domain, see RFC 3172."
technical arpa dns domain zone internet rfc reference iana 2010 Jan 14, 2:54Wow: "If the report's findings are correct, it suggests that the government of China has been engaged for months in a massive campaign of industrial espionage against US companies."
internet google china security politics privacy 2010 Jan 14, 2:51Its Tetris on the Nintendo (sort of) from the perspective of the piece (sort of).
humor tetris game videogame nintendo flash 2010 Jan 13, 9:35A live stage performance of The Two Gentlemen of Lebowski.
shakespeare the-big-lebowski play performance humor nyc 2010 Jan 13, 6:35Ars Technica rounds up links on the recent Google threatening to stop censoring itself in China including quotes from Secretary of State Clinton, and the EFF and info on the hacks.
google china arstechnica news politics security censorship 2010 Jan 12, 9:02"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could
operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."
google china politics privacy censorship internet web search 2010 Jan 12, 7:10Info on writing apps to work with low rights mode in IE7 and IE8. Includes info on elevation policy for applications
technical programming ie ie7 ie8 security elevation msdn microsoft windows 2010 Jan 11, 12:26Hulu lets you search through the textual captions of their shows
video tv hulu search caption accessibility
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