October 2008
How to Create a Portal Gun in Many Easy Steps →
So awesome (via Rock Paper Shotgun). Alternatively, this, which looks better, but is harder to make.
Some Serious Meta Going On...
I am currently watching the anime series Martian Successor Nadesico, which was the popular anime in Japan at one point, and the latest episode just threw one hell of a curveball.
First, some background. In Nadesico, there’s an anime series called Gekiganger 3, which is your stereotypical shōnen mecha series. In the first few episodes, you discover that two of the pilots love the series to...
OpenOffice.org Update Sets Downloads Record →
Now THAT’S impressive. Over 3 million downloads in the first week! Well done to them (via Slashdot.org).
Hostnames →
inky:
nosmo:
There’s a certain level of geeky connection that comes from naming a computer or a device. Some people seem to have naming schemes and consistent themes. I generally don’t. So Tumblr, what do you call your machines?
If you insist. Be warned, I don’t follow any kind of naming “scheme”. I started, and then gave up.
Desktop: Greasy Scotsman - because, when I...
Study squashes myth of gamer as antisocial Comic... →
Coding Horror: Obscenity Filters: Bad Idea, or... →
Slashdot | Oil-Immersion Cooled PCs Goes To Retail →
I first heard of this when PCGUK did a feature on extreme overclocking several months back. This is both awesome, and slightly not that nice to think about.
I mean, imagine putting in new components… Urgh. You’d not have to worry that much about shorting the circuits, but you’d need to wash your hands after.
Team Fortress 2 - Finding the Time to Bleed →
Valve comment on their latest video, Meet the Sandvich, and the abortive first draft of it. Which was suspiciously like the first Predator movie (via Rock Paper Shotgun).
Legend of Miyamoto →
Ossum. Trust me on this.
Stardock Rates DRM Complaints, Revises Gamers Bill... →
Stardock fixes up its Bill of Rights after some criticisms. It’s very nice (via GamePolitics). Entertainingly, Jack Thompson seems to make an appearance in the comments, saying that it’s not real news.
WatchStudio Ghibli/Level 5 Game: The Debut Trailer
This is the game I mentioned earlier with the awesome box. Now, I think I may want this more.
Fracture →
Game for the PS3 and XBox360. About terrain deformation. Including a reverse gravity gun (fire at something, and it drags things to it), a gun that creates a six-foot-wide personnel-tracking boulder, and a grenade that sucks in anything not nailed down, makes the terrain act like jelly, then explodes very violently.
In short… WAAAAANT.
Ninokuni - Game by Studio 5, art and box by Studio... →
Oh WOW. This looks damn fine. And it’s a DS game!
upsidedowndogs.com →
brilliantology:
(via livejamie) This site gives me a happy in my heart place.
For some reason, I have the same reaction…
“Note: If you are looking for the comic strip site also called Something...”
– SomethingPositive.com
Throat Fire! →
“According to the Web site of the Journal of Japan Society for Clinical Anesthesia, there have been multiple reported cases of fires involving electric knives in Japan.” So WHY do they still use them?! (via Warren Ellis)
Howard Tayler - Evolution, Intelligent Design, and... →
An excellent article. Shame I missed it first time around.
“Normal people… believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe...”
– Scott Adams (via affremblequotes)
WikiVS →
dailymeh:
A wiki of comparisons.
Vim vs Emacs debate is interesting. I’m still throwing down for Vim. As are 77% of people who voted on that page.
WatchWorking Calculator Constructed in Little Big Planet (via Penny Arcade).
What's Your Tumblr Number?
brilliantology:
inky:
joelaz:
Tumblr assigns a sequential number to each site on their service. The lower the number, the older the site. To find your number, login to Tumblr, go to the Following Page, then click on the name of your site in the top right corner of the screen just below the “log out” link. Now, look at the URL in your browser address bar and note the number at the end of...