Developmentally Challenged

dead-in-iraq
This work commenced in March of 2006, to roughly coincide with the 3rd anniversary of the start of the Iraq conflict. I enter the online US Army recruiting game, “America’s Army”, in order to manually type the name, rank and date of death of each service person who has died to date in Iraq. […]

Linux PR: New Linux Debugger Runs Programs in Reverse
A bidirectional debugger allows programmers to run a program backwards in time as well as forwards. The program can be stepped back line-by-line, or rewound to any point in its history. Furthermore, programmers can play the program forwards and backwards in a totally repeatable fashion, […]

Fuckin’ awesome video of someone thrashing Black Diamond (Level 35) in Marble Blast Ultra. The music totally sells this one.
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There’s a bunch of Marble Blast Ultra videos on YouTube, this one just ruled.

So I did a bit of work today on getting my blog improved. I just finished integrating a new plugin, Lightbox. I also use Flickr Photo Album to easily put my Flickr images into my blog, like you see on the left, and I wanted to have the lightbox features, so I […]

I saw this on Digg…
A small piece of Javascript which allows you to add Apple-like reflections to images on your website. It works in all the major browsers, you can vary the height and opacity of the reflections and you can script it so the reflection responds to user action. There are also vBulletin […]

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Anti-pornography rally in Jakarta
More than 10,000 people have taken part in an anti-pornography rally in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
They were supporting a bill before parliament which would include a ban on public kissing and erotic dancing.
The bill would make organising erotic dancing punishable by up […]

Next Generation - ‘Sony Just Copies Us’ Says Nintendo
“Historically we’re always developing new things. We know Sony have had a lot of issues with their rumble feature and they’ve had to withdraw it – because they didn’t innovate, they copied. With Nintendo, I’m trying to think of anything we’ve copied… but I can’t.”
Tell it […]

So, I had frequently joked about Sony taking it in the shorts on the PS3, but it keeps appearing that this could actually become the reality…
GameDev.Net
THQ Inc. decided it didn’t have enough information to make a version of “The Sopranos” for PS 3, according to Chief Executive Officer Brian Farrell. Other developers will release […]

No, seriously…this is great…(Link)
One part of the announcement that had been anticipated by experts was Blu-ray’s embrace of Advanced Access Content System (AACS), one version of which has also been adopted by the HD DVD Forum. This controversial technology would require that disc players maintain permanent connections to content providers via the Internet, making it […]

So I apologize for this in advance, but this is going to be primarly about Magic: The Gathering.
I quit playing Magic for a while because I was ticked that it took too much rare-chasing to get a “good” deck together. This was before I considered Heartbeat Combo. No $16/per Dual-Land bullshit. No $18 Jitte. […]