As the oddest use of a classic computer game in a good while: Walkthrough, as published as a part of the The 50 Songs in 90 Days Challenge.
Sep 302009
Sep 302009
Jamie Zawinski takes on Palm’s odd application store developer rules.
Sep 292009
Almost at the top.Sep 292009
25 posters collected on one page, with plenty of links to follow onto the artists’ websites.
Sep 282009
The combined electricity consumption of American video game consoles is equivalent to that of San Diego. I assume this uses only the current generation, and not the cumulative sum of all seven thus far.
Sep 282009
The moon was not yet full, but the hungry Carboardosaurus Rex was already on the prowl.
Moody Monday 28.9.2009: Moonstruck.
Sep 282009
Made my Monday.
Sep 272009
Luminous Landscape, to which I promise to return to.
Sep 272009
Random bricks from Sep 272009
Rule #2: Never argue with inanimate lagomorphs.Sep 272009
A statue by Sep 262009
Ambigram = a design of one or more words that can be read from multiple viewpoints.
Sep 252009
I’ve been plagued by many things lately.
At least two of which would be improved by using the fitbit gadget.
It would provide information on how I’m sleeping (oddly, by all accounts) and as a clippable object would probably be around as a pedometer much more reliably than the carried one.
Then again, it may all be just smoke and mirrors, with the collected data so full of anomalies as to be useless for any purposes.
As with any modern startup, the company’s primary communication channel is its blog.
Sep 252009
Sep 252009
Reversible debugging, possibly the coolest feature in version 7 of gdb, enables running programs backwards.
Apparently no chronological anomalies can be accidentally introduced while debugging recursive algorithms.
Sep 252009
Flickr has a new tail.Sep 252009
Sep 242009
The most over-used horror cinema cliché of the decade.
Sep 242009
Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box is out.
I liked the first installment of the puzzle series a lot, and based on the first thirty minutes the sequel continues in the same enjoyable vein.
Proper review in a while.
Sep 242009
From Taras Grescoe’s Bottomfeeder, courtesy of Sylvia Earle, a marine biologist (paraphrased):
Using a bottom-trawler to catch monkfish is like using a bulldozer to catch songbirds.
Sep 242009
I’ve badmouthed the finnish bureaucracy enough times to give credit when it’s due.
A passport replaced within a day. For free.
That’s quite unexpected.
The lack of price is due to the mechanical failure of the old one.
Sep 242009
No post-processing apart from cropping. Weird clouds, long exposure.
Skywatch Friday 4.11: Distorted Moon
Sep 242009
Meh.
On one of the nights I’m guaranteed not to be able to attend, Oranssi Pazuzu plays a gig in downtown Helsinki.
Sep 242009
Sep 242009