Saw this ages ago but we didn’t have a blog then, so, you know, didn’t do anything with it.
From Maddox’s iPhone article (probably NSFW) comes an extension to the exclamation point joke. Apparently the canonical escalation process is:
Heh.
And while [McCain]’s acceptance speech promised “the most ambitious national project in decades,” including efforts to improve energy efficiency, increasing oil production remains the centerpiece of his strategy.
I really wonder about what’s happening in his strategy meetings. I don’t know what’s worse — that they really don’t understand the issues in any kind of rigorous way, or that they do understand and willfully mis-represent them deliberately for the sake of pandering to the enormous percentage of the public that thinks it will help. Either way, it’s really disappointing.
(Blogging frequency will likely rise in the near future, but I’m in a turbulent period following the completion of my Masters’ degree and Jon’s traveling for a bit.)
He also slammed Democrats for employing the “politics of envy” going after Mr. McCain’s inability last week to remember how many houses he and his wife owned.
Really? Is he really saying that Obama is bringing this up because he wants that many houses too? Who writes these talking points?
Cute. This has annoyed me too. At least my old motorola phone would learn new words if I used them a few times. Not sure if the iphone does this.
Last weekend we invented a new Four Square variant (inspired by a comment from Molly) called T-Rex Four Square (or Four Squaraaaar according to my friend Josh) in which your elbows must always be in contact with your torso. This turns out to be a stupid amount of fun, and the pictures on flickr (in this set nearby this photo) illustrate that.
It occurred to me last night that perhaps a pirate varient (Four Squarrrrrrrrrrre?) in which plays keep one eye closed might also be fun.
In my continuing attempts to find things to do that are not finishing my thesis, I ran into this wonderful gem of a flash game. Amorphous is best understood as Geometry Wars with a different attack method, a combo system, and a larger set of enemies. This game is everything an arcade game should be. Its combo system rewards risky play, tricksy preparation, and knowledge of the enemies. It’s got a great achievements system for all sorts of accomplishments both low level (hitting four different color enemies in one swing) and high level (getting one thousand points in one game). It’s punishingly hard, too, so it doesn’t have that annoying scale-up period that arcade games tend to have where it’s so easy for the first few minutes because they’re trying to scaffold you into the heart of the game slowly. Instead, Amorphous lets you choose the difficulty scaling factor, as well as choose whether new enemy types come one at a time or all at once. All in all, a wonderful game. Go play!. If you’re new to Kongregate, you can sign up for an account using this link and it’ll auto make us friends. Yay!
I seem to be on a screenshots-of-installers kick lately. This one’s from installing Adobe Acrobat. A progress bar is nothing new, but I’ve never seen the captioning scheme of “installing megabyte X of Y” before. It strikes me as being a lot like reporting how much of a book you’ve read by the weight of the pages you’ve finished.
The del.icio.us redesign has been unleashed. The thing that makes me happiest is that the posting interface (a) shows you how many characters you have left to spend on the description and (b) the description size has grown from 255 characters to 1000. Win!
…not that I think anybody outside of my network actually uses descriptions for the things they bookmark.
Hot McDonald’s french fries and a call home encouraged Salim Hamdan to cooperate under interrogation but Osama bin Laden’s driver did not like cold fries and isolation upset him, witnesses said at his Guantanamo war crimes trial on Friday.
“Mr. Hamdan commented that he liked McDonald’s fries and we brought fries in,” FBI special agent George Crouch told Hamdan’s terrorism war crimes trial before a U.S. military commission. “Mr. Hamdan even appreciated that McDonald’s fries are not good cold.”
This is perhaps the most trivial headline and introduction to an article about the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals I could possibly imagine. The later pages have more information about Hamdan’s interrogation and the ongoing trial, but that’s basically filler borrowed from other articles. Why on earth would an article about the availability and temperature of french fries make it to the “top news” feed of a national wire service?
“Quite a few people in the world have seen my penis,” he says from his home in Los Angeles. “So that’s kinda cool.”
An interview with the kid who appeared on the cover of Nevermind as a baby. The interview is kind of lame (who really cares what this kid has to say about anything?), but it’s a good quote nonetheless.
There is only one path and that is the path that you take, but you can take more than one path. Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from its path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from its path, eat the food, eat the path.