I picked up Professor Layton and the Curious Village the other day for the Nintendo DS. It is a great game that I am really enjoying. I almost hate to admit it, but Penny Arcade’s comic commentary on the game is pretty darn accurate. As much as I love puzzles, a good majority of them … Continue reading Professor Layton
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Items!
Clothes! The other day, Substitute twittered “Internet + consistent sizing = jeans by mail. Yay.” Usually I buy my pants from the internet (zip-off BDUs from soldiercity.com), but yesterday, I picked up a pair of green non-zip-off BDUs from Andy and Bax. In other news, my shirts come from blank apparel, my socks usually come … Continue reading Items!
Oceanic Air is returning
OCEANIC AIRLINES ANNOUNCES ITS RETURN TO THE AIRWAYS “TAKING YOU PLACES YOU NEVER IMAGINED” Flights Begin December 31 To Nine Markets Oceanic Airlines announced today their return to the airways. Beginning December 31, operations and flights to nine markets will resume, “Taking You Places You Never Imagined.” Destinations include: Los Angeles, CA Tustin, CA Ames, … Continue reading Oceanic Air is returning
iPhone ScummVM
YEAY! The SCUMM VM has been ported to the iPhone so that you can now play all your favorite LucasArts games from days long past. BOO! The click points for the commands and objects are so tiny as to be extremely difficult to use (bordering on unusable in some places.) Similarly, the “meta” commands (right … Continue reading iPhone ScummVM
How many HTML elements can you name in 5 minutes?
I do not usually post memes, but saw this on angelsk’s LJ and liked that it’s more of a test of skill (well, technically, memorization) than a personality test or “what [object in object class] are you?” 44 Cut for analysis, which mentions lots of HTML tags you probably don’t remember, yourself. If you’re going … Continue reading How many HTML elements can you name in 5 minutes?
Bioshock DRM?
According to reports (e.g. digg) Bioshock installs a DRM rootkit on your machine. The original report does indicate that Microsoft’s RootkitRevealer application flags it as such, but it actually looks to be less of a rootkit (i.e. something that installs itself at ring-0, cloaks itself, and makes it almost impossible to remove) and more of … Continue reading Bioshock DRM?
Bioshock!
So. Bioshock. Before I can talk about that, I have to talk about BootCamp. In concept, Apple’s BootCamp is awesome. It lets you nondestructively partition the drive, burns a disc of Windows drivers, and lets you install Windows. In reality, the repartitioning is not quite up to quality. It seems that if your drive is … Continue reading Bioshock!
Mailplane, Suprnova, Bioshock
Mailplane is an OS X client frontend for Gmail (and Google Apps for Domains.) You get the responsiveness of a desktop app with the “I can quickly check my mail from anywhere” webmail backend. Now, if only they’ll open the beta. In other linkiness: Suprnova is back and being run by ThePirateBay folks now. In … Continue reading Mailplane, Suprnova, Bioshock
iPhone NES
Even the new speed-enhanced NES emulator for the iPhone (version 13L at this writing) is virtually unplayable. Sure, the speed is pretty close to the real thing, if not exact, but you’re still jabbing at virtual buttons behind a piece of glass. I wonder if this is what it would be like to play a … Continue reading iPhone NES
LOST in your iPod
I downloaded it, but probably will not have the chance to play around with it until noon. Posted in: