Archive for November, 2004
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29 Nov 2004
Someone has been considerate enough to put a flash-powered working World of Warcraft demo online. Realistic!
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29 Nov 2004
A full list of G-Man sightings in Half-Life 2. I can't believe I've missed so many; I think I've seen him twice.
Update 19:00 - I finished the game. Spoilers inside.
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28 Nov 2004
How to eat sushi. You may wonder why this is really necessary, but you must remember that sushi eating (and the art of making it) goes back to the time of the samurai. The rituals are detailed and wonderful, and this howto makes me want to visit Japan. Bonus: Includes a section on fugu!
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26 Nov 2004
The most recent news post for Steam contains this gem:
Next week we will be releasing the Source SDK, along with a surprise for the community.
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24 Nov 2004
The New York marathon did a fantastic job with the photos. You can search by runner name or bib number. For example, here are the photos for Jeff, including several of him crossing the finish line.
They clearly had some sort of automated system set up, likely connected to the wireless dongle that the runners had to wear on their shoes. The only way this could be improved, IMHO, is if the individual pages for the photos indicated the time the photo was taken, the distance the person had run, and maybe even a GPS location.
The photo prices, however, are ridiculous. The best value might be the $90 photo CD, but only if you were hypothetically very happy about the photos taken of you.
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23 Nov 2004
As of this morning, I am now using Remote Clip to synchronize the clipboards on my SunBlade 100 desktop (running Solaris 10) and my IBM T40 laptop (Windows XP). It's got exactly the feature set I always wanted in ClipCopy, and since I don't suffer from NIH syndrome, I have no problems abandoning the latter for the former.
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22 Nov 2004
The Adventures of Spelling the Vacuum. What the hell, folks? My life is like a Douglas Adams novel.
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22 Nov 2004
IBM's monthly teaser, Ponder This, seems like fun. Part 1 of November's only took me about 5 minutes and 66 characters of Perl. Part 2 is a little more analytical. I'll work on it at lunch.
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20 Nov 2004
Stephen Spielberg will be filming a part of the War of the Worlds remake in my home town of Naugatuck sometime before Christmas.
I'll have to keep my eyes open for calls for extras.Nevermind, this article says "extras will not be needed for the scene shot in Naugatuck". Oh well. -
18 Nov 2004
Mathowie has turned MetaFilter signups back on, for a $5 one-time fee. Totally worth it. I hope the MeFi stats get updated, or Matt announces how many new signups there were today. I'm user #17646.
Update 11-19: Matt got enough signups to pay for a full year of webhosting! My calculations show roughly 1200 new users in the last 24 hours, although there are certainly people who bailed between signup and donate in that count.