July 14th, 2006
This has been in my drafts for months. Just for completeness, I am still posting this (even though it is older than dirt now.)
WoW General Discussion - This was found in one of the forums. It’s in that pretty blue color which means it’s from an WoW representative, I think.
Apologies for the length of time it took to get this information out to you.
We encourage community building among our players with others of similar interests, and we understand that guilds are one of the primary ways to forge these communities. However, topics related to sensitive real-world subjects — such as religious, sexual, or political preference, for example — have had a tendency to result in communication between players that often breaks down into harassment.
To promote a positive game environment for everyone and help prevent such harassment from taking place as best we can, we prohibit mention of topics related to sensitive real-world subjects in open chat within the game, and we do our best to take action whenever we see such topics being broadcast. This includes openly advertising a guild friendly to players based on a particular political, sexual, or religious preference, to list a few examples. For guilds that wish to use such topics as part of their recruiting efforts, our Guild Recruitment forum, located at our community Web site, serves as one open avenue for doing so.
We will be clarifying some of the language in our game policies in order to help avoid such confusion in the future.
Reading this response makes it clear that Blizzard isn’t stopping the guilds from forming. It just prevents recruitment inside the game via open chat.
This may be sensible and I think I agree with this.
Another link is here: Blizzard apologizes for GLBT guild warning | News.blog | CNET News.com
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July 14th, 2006
The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II for Xbox 360 Review
And, yes, the big surprise is that here’s a real-time strategy game that works on a console, and the world didn’t come to an end.
I am very pleasantly surprised. Playing the demo with the tutorial really shows that a console controller can do an RTS game. I didn’t think there was anyway in heck it would work well.
Try the demo before you buy though. It’s very different than a keyboard and mouse. There’s a chance you may not like it (that’s what demos are for.)
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July 13th, 2006
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July 13th, 2006
Miss me? I’ve upgraded to the latest WordPress and cleaned up a few draft things I had been working on. Also, played around with some themes and even tried this new fangled widget sidebar things. I have to say, I like the widgets. Very neat idea although installing was a bit of a hassle (nothing major, just detailed in where stuff had to be copied). Hopefully, widgets will be standard in 2.1.
Perhaps, I’ll post more now. Maybe not ;-).
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April 25th, 2006
I figure I should give this a whirl. MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software if enough people create a blog entry.
The software they are giving away (again, if there’s enough entries) is SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys. If you’d like to participate, all the information can be found here: BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com
I used to use SubEthaEdit when it had a different name and sadly, my memory has glitched up and I can’t remember what the thing was called. If ya know what it is, put it in a comment for me.
Anyway, if you’re a blogger go read Maczot and make an entry in your blog with their requirements, so we can get freebies :-).
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January 31st, 2006
In Newsweekly -.- Gaming -.- Blizzard of GLBT gaming policy questions - This is depressing. If all this is true, I am disappointed in Blizzard for the first time ever. They’ve made so many great games and made them for the Mac.
I do enjoy playing World of Warcraft, but it is tiring to read “That’s so gay” from other players (usually used as a negative remark.) It is one of the reasons I still want to find gay folks to play with (lack of time has prevented me from really doing this, but there are others who want the same thing.)
Hey Blizzard, knock it off. Let people with common interests find one another in the game!
Update: Neat quote at Boing Boing: World of Warcraft: Don’t tell anyone you’re queer
In real life, you can be a citizen with rights. In gamelife, you’re a customer with a license agreement.
Update: Another link: Online game warns gay-lesbian guild | CNET News.com
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January 1st, 2006
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December 30th, 2005
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December 30th, 2005
Bitpress - Pretty cool movies of bullets going through stuff in slow motion.
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December 29th, 2005
gHacks » 5 Best Freeware Games of 2005 - Free games that look interesting. One works on a Mac and the others look like it’s windows only.
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December 27th, 2005
Spacewar! - This was probably the first video game I remember playing. The link here shows the orginal game before it was turned into a quarter sucking fest. A link at the site has a java applet that plays the game too.
I used to play this with my grandfather whenever we went to the mall for arcade games. Each quarter upped the time limit to the match, if I remember correctly. It even had a ship that looked like the Asteroid’s ship and another ship that looks like the Enterprise.
I’ve yet to see a remake that emulates it like the arcade. Nothing has come too close yet. (sounds, parts of the ship blowing off, etc.) The arcade version let you blow up part of the ship and still play (ie. an engine could be blown up, but you could still fire.) Not sure if the above applet has it because it’s hard to play alone before the other ship gets sucked into the sun.
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December 27th, 2005
Hello out there.. is this thing on? (tap tap)
This place has been pretty dead except for comments and comment spam. Stupid fart knocker spammers. I spent alot of time deleting and cleaning up the comment system and even shutting it off until Matt from WordPress created this plugin: Akismet. I stuck that puppy in and it took most all the work out of managing the comments.
I even tried a new theme for awhile, but since most of my friends use RSS readers, that was rather pointless. It was mostly to see how the themes actually installed (I hadn’t done one before.)
Next up, WordPress 2.0 was released. The new features are very nice along with a great update to the admin panels. I won’t bore you with all the details, but it’s definitely worth the upgrade time and effort (it’s free :-)).
I’ve installed it and it even comes with the Akismet plugin already build it. You just have to activate it. So for now, all is well. (Crossing fingers and one eye for luck.) I may even update the theme again.
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June 9th, 2005
Dating an Apple Developer - I can relate to this article so much. It’s the same in a gay relationship with geeks. In our case, my boyfriend doesn’t understand the obsession with Apple’s stuff. He likes Open Source only. So he mostly roles his eyes when I get excited about the newest OS or the latest software. He does offer to go stand in line at the Apple Store with me when he’s not working :-).
Anyway, the entry was really well written and brightened my day today. Kudos to the author!
Found via Photo Matt
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April 19th, 2005
Motion Induced Blindness Wow - this is freaky.
I’ve seen stuff like this before, but this one creates the illusion better than the others.
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April 8th, 2005
Google Sightseeing - This has to be one of the neatest weblogs out there.
It’s a site that uses Google maps to view some nifty locations.
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April 3rd, 2005
M&M’S® Chocolate MPire M&M’s… Star Wars… lol
Found this via a mailing list.
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March 22nd, 2005
Entertainment News Article | Reuters.co.uk - I wonder what this could mean for folks with a bad eye.
Will this new 3-D moving making thing be so big, that in 10 years everything will use it? Having only one functional eye, prevents me from ever finding out what is so great about this.
I suppose it’s selfish, but part of me doesn’t ever want to see this happen. I will probably never be able to experience or enjoy them and they could be so popular (who really knows at this point?) that movies of today could go away (like black and white).
Knowing full well that’s the wrong attitude and that it could be an experience millions could enjoy, I do hope they have some provision for single eye’d folks to be able to enjoy these films.
Have you ever watched a cheesy 3D movie released on TV? or closed one eye while wearing those blue and red glasses from hell?
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February 23rd, 2005
Mac Rumors: Apple To Buy TiVo?I typically don’t believe the rumor mill stuff. This; however, would be the coolest thing and just plain fun to imagine. I have similar fantasies about that Apple cell phone (iPhone or whatever.)
Imagine the possibilities with Apple’s product design and my favorite PVR. Who knows what they could come up with.
Perhaps an iTunes like thing for movies and watching on the TiVo. If they jumped into On Demand HDTV programming with a simple interface, I think they’d have a neat market.
After all, iTunes worked. It’s very successful. The could completely replicate the business model. Down to the point of being able to burn DVD’s of the movies (just as we are able to burn normal audio CD’s of iTunes Store music).
If I keep fantasizing like this, I am going to need a paper towel.
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