I don't like to be reminded that I'm missing GDC this year, but Rob sent me this little video reminder. The video is of a soon-to-be-released game for the PS3 called "Little Big Planet" which allows up to 4 players to construct their own fully physical world, or download other levels from other players and play it as a game. Go watch it!
Last night's episode of Lost "Enter 77" feigned some answers, but of course provoked more questions. Did we learn anything? Read the rest of this entry ...
During tonight's episode of ABC's Lost (Tricia Tanaka Is Dead), it suddenly dawned on me what I had been missing from the show for a good amount of time (hm, maybe a year's worth of episodes?): The comedic chemistry/interplay between the "minor" characters. I didn't mind that no mysteries were resolved, nothing spooky/supernatural happened - but I really enjoyed the name-calling between Hurley, Sawyer, Jin and Charlie and watching Sawyer teach Jin some English. I also liked the "reunion" scene and the re-emergence of Sayid and Locke.
Maybe I liked this episode so much because it was a break from all the Others drama and from Jack?
My real barrier here is time, there's just not enough of it to do all the research and all the fiddling that I want to do. So I'm hoping some stray MythTV guru will happen upon this blog entry and solve my problems for me. Read the rest of this entry ...
How well do you know your geography? I really suck at it, but I'm getting better by playing these two web browser games:
These SVG games work in modern browsers like Opera 9+ and Firefox 1.5+ and were written by orinoco and published on his Opera blog. I gave him some pointers to get them working in IE+ASV (I updated my guide with these tips too).
He really did some fantastic work - he started with a blank world map on WikiMedia Commons drawn in Inkscape which had all geography stuffed into a single path element and then he broke them out so that each country was its own path, then manually identified them all! It's not an easy task, but it was made easier because the graphics format was an open, well-documented standard in plain text. I hope he continues to experiment with SVG.
Can someone test them in Konqueror and Safari nightlies?