Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
If you're in SE Michigan and excited about the release of Hardy Heron, head out to Arbor Brewing Company (google map) this Saturday, April 26 for a release party.
If you aren't in this area, no worries! There are parties being held all over the freaking place. Check this page to ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
"...Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn and nothing happens. You're like, "Crap! I wish I hadn't see Ricky on the sidewalk!"This is easily the Mitch Hedberg joke I agree with the most. To me, a car horn is a safety device, not an outlet for your rage. ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
I know Pipes has been around for a while, but I just now got into using it. The interface is really simple to use but configuring the actual modules is something that requires at least a little programming talent. This is particularly true once you start involving aspects like regular ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Here is a downloadable version of the Starcraft 2 footage at what I believe to be an acceptable compromise between video/audio quality and file size. I'm providing Quicktime, DivX and WMV files, so everyone should be able to view it. If you want it in some other format, feel free ...
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
For anyone who cares to see it, here is my Flickr photoset from Gen Con. None of the people in these photos is me.
http://flickr.com/photos/mmayers/sets/72157601573561185/
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Update: This video can now be downloaded in several different formats here.
As I mentioned before, I spent a lot of time hovering around the Blizzard booth. I also managed to get some footage of Starcraft 2 in action. I could tell you about it, but I'll bet the Blizzard Employee ...
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
I'll admit, the big Blizzard fan that I am, I spent a lot of my time hovering around their booth at Gen Con this year. I got a chance, briefly to run a pre-made 70 warlock around the areas of Northrend that exist so far. While the expansion is obviously ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
I'll be heading to Gen Con in Indianapolis this weekend. This will be my second year attending this convention and maybe next year I'll actually take the initiative to sign up for some of the gaming tournaments. But I'll take plenty of pictures of all the nerdy things and post ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
The madness over at digg has died down and the users have triumphed. Yesterday, the site was taken over by folks upset at digg's attempt to remove stories that violated a C&D order. It was the goal of this C&D to stop the spread of a particular key that can ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Today, digg announced the release of their new REST-based API. It looks pretty full-featured, though I haven't gotten much of a chance to play around with it yet. They have already provided Flash and PEAR toolkits for the API and are accepting submissions from users for additional language toolkits. Let's ...
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