The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in books on Mar 30th, 2008
Seems that I’m not the only one who’s miffed at the science fiction not daring to think big enough.
And yeah, being a card-carrying member of Stross’ fanboy squad, Halting State is definitely on the shopping list already. And considering that the NYT article was the second recommendation for Bacigalupi’s Pump Six in […]
Posted in television, web on Mar 30th, 2008
South Park goes free.
Every episode will be available on the web.
And the logic behind this move (by Trey Park and Matt Stone, the show’s creators) is nothing short of genius:
[we got] really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.
Yeah, it’s […]
Back in 2005, I took Jakob Nielsen’s test on blogging sins. And came off with four and a half. Some of which were rectified in the intervening years, but now, with the new engine, it’s time to revisit the list, which appears not to have been updated since.
1. No Author Biographies
No […]
Posted in computing, naked link on Mar 29th, 2008
Martian headsets, or a roundabout way of saying that “standards are good, mmkay”.
Today marks the fourth anniversary of Lavonardo (as a blog, that is).
The blog is now exactly 2366 entries old.
The biggest news of last year is obviously the long-resisted change to a real blogging engine - the switch to WordPress went smoothly, and I’m happy about how things have turned out to […]
Posted in meme, photography on Mar 29th, 2008
This entry attempts to catalogue the open digital photography challenges in the web.
Day
Name
Description
Participation
Monday
Moody monday
In english.
Single-word subject.
No registration.
~50 participants.
Exposure date not set.
No.
Monday
JorjDotOrg PhotoHunt
In english.
Competition, consists of multi-week seasons.
Single-word subject.
Registration needed.
~20 participants.
Exposure after the challenge (not enforced).
No.
Tuesday
Tuesday challenge
In english.
Competition.
Single-word subject.
No registration needed.
~40 participants.
Exposure seems to be after the challenge (not enforced).
No.
Wednesday
Lensday
In english.
Single-word subject (seems to […]
Posted in games on Mar 28th, 2008
Finished the first episode of Forumwarz, the massively single player online game of forum domination and pwnage.
Had plenty of fun, was impressed by the implementation, and will definitely be back for episode 2, as soon as it is released.
The troll was probably not the easiest character class to play (having to rely on […]
Posted in photo friday on Mar 27th, 2008
Considering that it’s ten minutes to midnight on thursday, it’s high time to participate in this week’s photo friday challenge. The topic is found objects.
The attached photograph has a beautiful white seashell, deposited by the tides on a log high on a beach.
The picture in full-size (this has been moderately cropped) is […]
Posted in naked link, news on Mar 27th, 2008
One of the causes for the epic megafail of Sampo/Danske Bank reunion has been neatly dissected in Kuolleiden Koodareiden Seura.
Posted in music, naked link on Mar 27th, 2008
Hail Metalmania, the 9€ / cd is not a price you’ll often see in a brick&mortar-store. At least Anttila seems to be well-equipped with cheap discs right now.
Posted in interactive fiction, movies, video on Mar 27th, 2008
Interactive fiction - that is: games that use pure text for input and output - seems not to be the topic of a snazzy movie.
But against all odds, GET LAMP, a documentary film on the very subject looks to be very interesting indeed. Jason Scott, the director, has previously put together a […]
Posted in photo thursday on Mar 27th, 2008
Meh.
Was looking forward to a new challenge already this week, but the site’s break is actually two weeks long.
Posted in games on Mar 26th, 2008
Come visit the growing municipality of Suur-Haaga, a small town with big opportunities!
[ via Pinseri. ]
I seem to have ended up with TWO copies of Mondo’s Paris guidebook. Haven’t paid for either, so it would be only fair to pass on the book.
So the first one to comment this with “Me!” or to send equivalent e-mail gets the book. To be picked up in person or […]
Matt Barton started his history of computer roleplaying games in GameSetWatch, bartered it to Gamasutra to expand the readership, and has now expanded the subject into a 450 page book.
Dungeons & Desktops just went on top of my Amazon stack, and based on what I’ve seen on the web, will be good reading. […]
Posted in mac, television, video on Mar 24th, 2008
A very relaxing easter weekend is drawing to a close, and what would be a better way to finish it off than bunnies.
A doubleheader of them, to be exact.
Useless Creations’ screensaver puts a group of rabbits on screen, and manages not to get annoying in the first fifteen seconds. In […]
Posted in games on Mar 24th, 2008
Based on uncovered evidence, it would seem that Days of Wonder’s Ticket to Ride is headed for the Xbox Live Arcade.
The two first XBLA takes on board games (Catan and Carcassonne) have been pleasant indeed, and there’s no reason to doubt this wouldn’t succeed as well. After all, there’s already a successful […]
Posted in fantasy hockey on Mar 24th, 2008
After the second upset in the playoffs, Haagan Hakkapeliitat made it to the final in Yahoo! 76191.
Apart from negligible output from goalies (Tim Thomas is having a really bad stretch in Boston), the team played in solid fashion, and most of the categories had very comfortable margins.
But it’s a whole new […]
Posted in blog on Mar 24th, 2008
Added a sidebar-item on popular search terms, with which casual browsers have ended up here.
By far the biggest item on the list is the mysterious “singhiozzerebbe”, which is the biggest scoring word ever in Scrabulous. When played with the Italian dictionary, obviously.
The attached image is the other massive attractor - […]
Posted in haircut, music, restaurants on Mar 23rd, 2008
Celebrated payday by going shopping.
Refrained from picking up anything significant (like a new television, camera or an apartment), and concentrated on music.
The theme was definitely metal, of a retro-ish kind. Not of the spandex-wearing kind, but metal that can be respected even while completely sober.
The first discovery was […]