Archive for May, 2005
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31 May 2005
Nomad and Mari converted his E3 Pac-man shirt from a XL to medium this weekend. I’m considering doing the same, because this shirt feels like an especially large XL, even after an I-hope-it-shrinks pass through the wash.
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27 May 2005
It’s fair to say that I was extremely impressed with the Xbox 360 at E3. The controllers are virtually perfect (and will be available for the PC), and going back to a (relatively) grainy PS2 after playing Full Auto at 1080i was palpably painful. A couple of hours into E3, we realized that all of the games were playing on dev kits (read: Apple G5 towers). Reports have started coming out that at HDTV resolutions, the Xbox 360 will not be able to render the games at full quality, which means that the final games will almost certainly not look as nice as they did at E3. Which is a damn shame.
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26 May 2005
All t-shirts at Threadless are on sale for only $10 apiece until June 6. Stock up!
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25 May 2005
I’ve created a new Greasemonkey user script awkwardly named “Metafilter mark contact contributions”. I mark people that I’ve met at meetups as contacts on MetaFilter, and I like to be able to have a reminder when I see something from that user. Slashdot has a feature like this built in (it uses small green and red globes), and I figured that with some of GreaseMonkey’s cross-site XMLHTTP functions, this would be pretty easy. It was.
Install Firefox and Greasemonkey and right click here to install the user script. Here is a sample screenshot.
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24 May 2005
A long time until the 24 Season 5 premiere.
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20 May 2005
E3 is over. We yelled ourselves silly for three days and played about a krillion games. Some of the most interesting things were the Game Boy Micro (so small, but so comfortable), Shadow of the Colossus, and just about everything about the Xbox 360. There’s a lot more, but I’m a bit exhausted and all of the muscles in my body (especially my throat muscles) are a bit tired.
This was totally awesome. I can’t wait until next year.
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18 May 2005
Day 0 of E3 is over. We survived some serious turbulence on the flight over the Rockies, and met boo_radley from Metafilter and his friend Dan. Plus, we met two people on the plane who are going to E3 (one of whom was the VP of Sales for Turtle Beach).
One of the rooms at the Westin is the perfect gaming room, because it’s right between two executive conference suites. We saw big groups going in and out of them a few times yesterday, but at night the doors were propped open and there was no one around.
Yesterday at the invitation-only presentations, Sony introduced their Playstation 3, Nintendo showed off the Revolution and surprised everyone with the Game Boy Micro (that thing is tiny), and several interesting games were demoed. I’m looking forward to the conference. T minus four hours!
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14 May 2005
I’ve noticed an interesting pattern on Slashdot. They’re notorious for duplicate stories (although, in my opinion, they have improved over the last few years). But a couple weeks after posting an article about a new Google feature, someone independently discovers it and the Slashdot editors feel the need to discuss it again. I only point this out because they did it not one month ago with search by numbers (original).
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13 May 2005
I hope that I don’t regret allowing any of the E3 folks to moblog to the front page here. The new design makes it really easy to integrate new sources of posts, like the E3 moblog, or the “standard” moblog.
The old location of the E3 moblog is also available, if this page is too ugly for you.
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11 May 2005
To try to counter an anti-chili-finger backlash and sales drop, Wendy’s is giving away Free Jr-sized Frosties this weekend, Friday 13 May through Sunday 15 May. (No purchase necessary).
For the curious, 160 calories, 4g fat, 21g sugar.
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10 May 2005
I never liked the side-by-side bars on plutor.org very much, so this morning I spent a bit of time using the mt-list and mt-rssfeed plugins to create a page with blog posts, del.icio.us links, and flickr photos intermingled. I like the simplicity better, and I think it’ll be easier to glance at and determine what’s new.
If I still like this design in the morning, I plan to migrate all of the archives and such to the new design at some point in the future.
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7 May 2005
I have about 250 photos from the six years of NVAD. I’ve decided to post a few of my favorites online. It’s clear that we were all very bad photographers, because even my favorites aren’t that great.
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5 May 2005
Yesterday, I was surfing through the “24″ tag on del.icio.us when I found a site that had the ring that CTU uses in several formats. After I remembered that I have the exact same phone at work, I decided to see if I could get this ring on my desk phone.
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