Some notes from a newbie Twitterer:
1. It is fun to twitter @ other people, but it’s only fun for you and the person you’re twittering @. To all third parties, it is boring
2. It adds one more link to the chain of things I do to avoid working (checking work e-mail, checking blog comments, checking home e-mail, checking …
Just in case you’re curious, I’ll do it for you. Here are the places where I said (or strongly implied) that I would never Twitter ever: here, here, here, here, here and here.
Sometimes your job makes you do things you didn’t think you’d have to do. I said I didn’t like Twitter. I never said I wasn’t a hypocrite.
Hypotwit. …
I found Alice today in the iPhone app store. Remember Alice? It has a special place in computer-games history: It was the only game to ship on the first Apple MacIntosh computer.
The chess-related entertainment was written by Steve Capps, a legendary hacker who lives out here in the SF Bay Area. Among other things, Capps worked on …
This post is mostly just an excuse to say “hashtag.” Hashtag. It’s just so satisfying.
Also to say that I find the mass introspection on display—most eloquently by gifted insta-essayist Clay Shirky—in the wake of the whole amazonfail phenomenon to be almost as interesting as the phenomenon itself.
It is apparent—or as …
Sorry about the low posting rate. I think there must be a 10th muse, a muse of blogging. Her name is Banalia, and she has been idle.
Plus my Killzone 2 saved game got corrupted, and I had to start over. So that happened.
Still, Michael Chabon is apparently working on a screenplay of John Carter of Mars, which suggests that not all …
First up, the first fully fledged Moon trailer:
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I kind of … want this. It looks like Total Recall meets Eternal Sunshine. I’m trying not to think about the fact that the director, one Duncan Jones, is apparently David Bowie’s son. If you look on YouTube you can find …
— This appears to mark the return of the Cardboard Tube Samurai, or CTS, to Penny Arcade. Personally I think when it comes to continuity they doth protest too much — it generates some of their best stuff. Panel two of this CTS strip has long been my desktop wallpaper.
— This person is doing a series of videos about Sydney …
Every year, it’s an ordeal. Some gung-ho sports fan in the office hands out that Xeroxed NCAA tournament bracket. I stare, mystified, at the meaningless grid of confusion. But I do it. I fill it out. Why does picking random winners and losers in sports matchups I know zero about and will never watch take so damn long?
Every …
I’m at a loss to explain why I’m still playing iShoot. I play it at home. I play it on the subway. I played it in between the last sentence and this one. I have played it while in the same room as a perfectly available PS3. How does that make sense?
iShoot is a turn-based tank combat game for the iPhone. It’s incredibly crude: you …
[Warning: this is what news professionals call a “soft” item, in that it is unrelated in any way to any news breaking or otherwise. Not like all my other posts.]
I don’t mean to get all Lifehacker on y’all, but I have no e-mail in my in-box. None.
I didn’t want to say anything and jinx it, but it’s going on three weeks now, and …
A games startup called OnLive will be coming out of stealth mode today at the Game Developers Conference. Here’s the proposition: they take the heavy processing part of video games and move it into — and I apologize for using this hated, hated word — the Cloud. All the high-end graphics heavy lifting happens at some server farm, …
Palm’s Pre is still months away from launch, but already it’s making the world a better place. Proof? Apple today announced that a raft of improvements is coming to the iPhone–including, at long last cut and paste.
That critical feature, along with a bunch of others, will help the world’s hottest smartphone (17 million sold to date) …