August 2008
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Infomercial 2.0?
I see a lot of scary stuff on the Internet on a fairly regular basis, but this really ranks up there:
Yes, the right half of the screen shows you the kind of goatee a REAL man is supposed to have while the left half contains an embedded video showing off the really creepy thing you [...]
Rumors are stupid
And so are online music subscriptions.
So The Unofficial Apple Weblog received an anonymous tip that Apple is set to announce a subscription service for iTunes.
To TUAW’s credit, they state right at the beginning of their post that this is probably B.S. Unfortunately, even with that preface, that rumor is now spreading across the intertubes. [...]
Wait, that’s $400 WITH a contract?!?
Setting: An average Rogers store. Center stage is the iPhone podium while stage right and back hold displays of various GSM phones. Stage left is a sales counter, behind which stands Sales Dude.
Me: Excuse me, how much for the Blackberry Bold?
Sales Dude: That’ll be four-hundred dollars.
Me: Wow, I can swing that.
Sales Dude: Alright, let me [...]
Weekend Time Waster: Nanobots
I’m a huge fan of the Lucas Games and Sierra OnLine style point-and-click adventures have frankly found video games in general lacking since the genre’s apparent demise sometime in the late ’90s.
Fortunately, it seems there are always independent developers who are willing to take nostalgic desire all the way to revive lost art forms.
So, for [...]
A journalist is me
I figured at some point, the thrill of being published would go away.
Fortunately, it seems that is not the case, as I was certainly excited to see my first piece for The Escapist go live this morning. Stumbling into the Kingdom of Loathing is the story of how an online browser-based RPG based around [...]
