Tron Legacy trailer →
::OM NOM NOM:: Looks sooooo good. Too bad it’s so long from now.
We’ll have to watch Tron this summer so we’re ready for the sequel during winter break. D:
Dammit!
I really wanted Coraline to win best animated feature. :(
Oh well. I guess coming in second to the second animated feature film to ever be nominated for Best icture isn’t half bad…
(the first one, fyi, was Beauty and the Beast.)
Is monogamy good for technology? →
The problem, of course, is that most of us can’t afford to live exclusively within Apple’s (or Microsoft’s) ecosystem. Work often gets in the way of personal preferences, whatever they may be. We’re also more and more inclined to experiment with new devices, and most of these aren’t built by Apple or Microsoft.
When this happens, we’re left scrambling for workarounds to the otherwise flawless experience technology “monogamy” provides.
Google’s Open Manifesto Tells It Like It Is →
One thing I really liked about Rosenberg’s essay was that he basically comes right out and ‘fesses up to all of this. “Our commitment to open systems is not altruistic,” he writes.
There you have it. I don’t question Google’s commitment to openness across many of its efforts (though not all), but I don’t believe for a second that Google approaches the concept of openness absent self-interest. Make no mistake: Google serves openness because openness serves Google.
Checklist till alpha 0.5
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Scouting (medium)don’t permit scouting of areas that have already been scoutedcreate log messagesaward slightly reduced XP (3/4? 1/2? … 3/5?)generate 1-3 “nearby” adventures
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Scripts/pages to display logs from encounters (friggin’ annoying)(good enough…) - Message boards (easy)
Leaving games releases citizens back to hiring pool (easy)
On a related note, it’s a pretty amazing feeling when you find that your code foundation/groundwork was well thought-out enough for you to add new features relatively easily and with very little debugging necessary. :)
[edit] ::crosses everything off but message boards:: OH MY GOD. ;x
::lololol:: I was doing some research on Mulan, don’t ask why. But… I found out that Jackie Chan voiced Shang for the Mandarin version of the Disney film.
Which meant… he sang Shang’s pieces too. So I had to YouTube it. XD
(p.s. dunno why the beginning is English… I think they used an English version video and just put the recording of the Mandarin lyrics to it.)
(p.p.s. apparently Mulan is credited to giving Christina Aguilera her start, because she sang the pop version of Reflection. :x )
Why We Play Games, And Why We Grumble About Them →
Simplified examples, but general idea is worth keeping in mind.
Pet Peeve #324
I friggin’ hate when websites make me change my password every x weeks.
And not only that, they’ll do things like require that your password has at least one letter, one number, one CAPITAL letter, and eight characters minimum. Like… grargh, really? It’s hard enough for me to remember one of these, let alone a dozen.
AND AND AND… they will actually keep track of your old passwords, so that you don’t just type in the same one in. So not only are you being forced to come up with something new, they don’t even purge the database of your old one, so if THEIR site was compromised…….
I get it conceptually; yes, yes, it’s more secure, to change your password on occasion. But besides all the points I already mentioned, it really, REALLY annoys me when a website has an inflated sense of importance by including this “feature”.
Like I logged into USC’s School of Cinematic Arts website for the first time since I registered for the stupid thing two point five years ago, and the first thing I see is, “HAY. CHANGE PASSWORD PLZ.”
Rrrgggghhh.
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