And while all the flash nerds can gripe and cry about this all they want… they should probably talk to someone who actually owns an iphone. I dunno about you, but me and my iPhone toting friends want NOTHING to do with something as insecure and unstable as flash on our cell phones, which are capable of making phone calls from telephone numbers printed on the web.
That’s just asking for some jackass hacker to come up with some way to exploit my phone and while I trust Adobe for photoshop, I don’t trust Adobe for anything else and certainly don’t want to have to mess with a resource hungry Adobe app on my iPhone. It takes 2 gig worth of RAM on my PC to make anything Adobe run smoothly, iPhones just don’t have that kind of real estate.
Speak up in the comments, fellow iPhone owners!
I wasn’t sure. Early reports on this came from Troll Lord Games’ forums, where people were posting that Gygax had passed, but nothing official had come out just yet. Then I came upon the story at a Wisconsin TV station, where Gygax lived with his wife. His wife confirmed his passing to the associated press… and there it is…
Gary Gygax, the man who co-designed Dungeons and Dragons, believed to be the very first roleplaying game, is dead. He was 69 years old, and at the time of his death was still writing adventures for D&D, even though he was no longer working on the core rules for D&D itself. Gygax and Arneson’s creation changed the world. It certainly changed my world. Gygax was certainly not one of my favorite characters in the gaming industry. It had been rumored for years that Gygax was a misogynist, among other major character flaws. In spite of these things, I can’t deny his contribution to my life. This man and his game certainly changed the way I see the world and the way I spend time with my friends.
He’s gone now and I am grateful that he was here. I’m grateful for what he gave us because life would never be the same without D&D. Rest in peace.
How sad is this?
The suspected cause is a possible drug overdose, other than that no news. They found him today.
Apparently filming on The Dark Knight is already over and the film is in post-production right now according to IMDB, so we will still get to see Ledger’s performance as the Joker, but I was really hoping we would get to see more of him in this new Batman series. What I’ve seen so far of the new Joker is impressive and downright cool.
My heart goes out to Ledger’s family, particularly his 2 year old daughter, who barely even got the chance to know her dad.
This would be fantastic… if it could beat Netflix at what Netflix does.
I mean, I know that I get a physical DVD, but there’s no reason why the 3 out at a time policy could not work for digital rentals. When you’re ready to watch the next thing, delete one of the previous rentals in your library. It also doesn’t beat Netflix on price. For 17$ a month I get to rent approximately 14 movies a month from Netflix. That same 17$ through iTunes rentals nets me 4 new releases or 5 old releases.
In addition, Netflix just opened up the ability for me to download stuff and watch it on my laptop, through my web browser, whenever I feel like it and as often as I want. My laptop is not as portable as an iPod, but that’s not the point. Netflix is already doing video on demand for its customers and they’re giving it to them gratis, as part of their packages if they have more than the most basic of plans through Netflix.
Apple, you’ve got a long way to go to beat Netflix at this game.
A Russian couple, separated for 60 years by Stalin, were re-united when the couple both happened to return to their home village on the same day.
Does it get any better than this?
You may read better written articles. You may find more interesting articles, but I guarantee no other article will make you smile the way this one does.
Love really does conquer all. Congratulations Boris and Anna!
PETA… People for the ETHICAL TREATMENT of Animals… puts more cats and dogs to sleep than the Humane Society, what’s funny is that PETA still isn’t shutting down its animal shelters, in spite of the fact that they can’t find adoptive homes for the companion animals that they take in. Surely they knew about their low adoption rate long before the end of this year. Instead of doing the right thing, and sending those animals to shelters where they had a 2 in 3 chance of getting adopted, they selfishly hung onto the animals and sent them all to their deaths.
These guys remind me of those scary pet collector people that Penn and Teller talked about on an episode of Bullshit.
If you’re interested in adopting a pet, go to your local Humane Society, or a reputable breeder, if you absolutely must have a puppy. Too many things go wrong when people adopt their pets from questionable sources, and PETA has just flung itself into the questionable source category alongside puppy mills and pet stores.
So I’m bored, but I’m blogging!
Today was so nice and absolutely… boring. Nothing of note happened that seemed blogworthy to me, except that John Kerry came out and endorsed Obama, but I would guess that my readers already knew that and don’t need to hear anymore on that one from me.
For once, I did not manage to find some article on digg that was so idiotic that I laughed at what the masses find amusing, though the stunt that Gizmodo pulled at CES made me think that I shouldn’t read Gizmodo anymore, because that was just childish, though I am glad that their posting offers an apology and they realized they were behaving like idiots after the fact.
And that’s really it…
In spite of the fact that Obama was polling well in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton managed to snag the win in New Hampshire today, with a reported 13 point lead. Apparently, it was her tearful moments after Iowa that won her some sympathy votes in New Hampshire, and I suspect that her husband’s attack on Obama created at least a small contribution to that end.
Regardless, congratulations to the winners in New Hampshire! More to come next week.
Though… to be honest with you, I can’t wait for all of this to be over with. By the time my primary comes around, I won’t even have a say in all of this because the front runners will already be decided which, I just want to say, sucks. Doesn’t mean I won’t vote in the primary, I will and always do, but it still sucks.
On top of the news that Warner Brothers is dropping support for HD-DVD this week, rumors abound that Paramount is about to execute its escape clause in its contract for exclusive HD-DVD releases. What this means for you and me, is that Michael Bay may finally get Transformers on Blu-ray just as he desired. What this also could mean, is a potential nail in the coffin for the HD-DVD format, which is great because consumers have been very soft on purchases in either next gen format, in spite of the fact that blu-ray sales are outrunning HD-DVD sales two to one. The players just aren’t flying off the shelves the way that retailers want them to, and the movie studios could care less about the players. Warner brothers bowed out of releasing HD-DVDs because they just weren’t selling enough of them. Blu-ray was making them more money.
It will be interesting to see where all of this goes, but I suspect that if Paramount throws in the towel, Universal will follow and the HD-DVD format will be dead.
Wow. I don’t think anyone expected this. A friend of mine said on New Year’s Eve that the one match-up that he would really have to sit down and think about, would be Obama vs. McCain in November, but at the time he didn’t seem hopeful that he had a shot in hell of seeing that match-up. I’m beginning to wonder about that.
The early news coming out of New Hampshire is showing Obama and McCain leading the polls, and again we are seeing record voter turn outs in New Hampshire.
The voters are speaking, the tide is changing. To what, I don’t know, but you can’t deny that something is happening out there. It’s a good feeling.
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