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ABC In Sync With Prime’s Female Skew ‘Five of [ABC’s freshman] shows are producing solid women 18-49 ratings—including all three on Wednesday,’ Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, and Dirty Sexy Money. (tags: television ratings, gender abc) KnickerBlogger.Net » Blog Archive » A Layman’s Guide to Advanced NBA Statistics Quick intro to the numbers you should be looking at. (tags: basketball statistics) TwinCities.com - Q&A with Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor, Part 2…
Minnesota Nice, feeling short, weather, and a few other gripes.
Death-Knell. Or Death Knell. Shorter OED eliminating thousands of hyphens from its next ed. (tags: words language hyphens punctuation oed)…
Blog of Booth: PS3 misconceptions and spin Ex-Harmonix developer grouses about PS3 fill rate and programming difficulty, posits that it will never look as good as Xbox 360. (tags: ps3 gamedev programming)…
Gamasutra - Nintendo Profits Rise To Heaven With Half Year Results Net sales +132.5%, operating income +181.3%, net income +143.7%. Strong software showings from Pokemon, Brain Age, Mario Party. (tags: nintendo wii ds financials) Sony: PlayStation Price Causing Increased Losses on Game | Life Sales +43%, but “losses more than doubled to 96.7 billion yen — about $841 million.” (tags: sony financials ps3 psp) ThinkGeek :: R/C K9 I would’ve killed…
Still no TV, and I often have to kick-start some of these streaming viewers that the networks run, but nothing will keep me from vegging out in front of the TV in one form or another.
Rumorama: Animal Crossing For Wii, MMO Style | GayGamer.net Oh, please let this be true. (tags: mmorpg animalcrossing wii nintendo) Flickr: San Diego Wildfires October 2007 Flickr pool for photographers near the fires. (tags: flickr photos fire sandiego california) Live PR | Live Pagerank | Check Your PageRank | PageRank Checker In case you’ve ever wondered what your site’s Google ranking is. (tags: google pagerank seo) Microsoft to Pay $240 Million…
Xbox 360 Plushie by *kickass-peanut on deviantART (tags: xbox plushie remediation) MOO.com | Holiday Card Competition ‘we’ve developed the People-Powered Holiday Card Store, so the whole community can share their favorite Holiday-themed images and make amazing Holiday Cards that are truly one of a kind.’ (tags: moo cards holiday contest) Prophet64 SID Music Software ‘a suite of very user friendly music applications for the Commodore 64 platform. Designed to hook up…
Burritoeater.com San Francisco burritos, reviewed and rated. My quest for the ultimate burrito continues. (tags: sanfrancisco burritos food ratings)…
Indian-American Congressman Elected Louisiana’s Governor - New York Times ‘[Bobby] Jindal… appears to have overcome a significant racial hurdle that blocked him in 2003… race-based opposition in the deeply conservative northern and eastern parishes of Louisiana that once supported the Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.’ (tags: louisiana governor politics race indian asian)…
GnuWin32 (tags: software windows gnu unix) Gamasutra - Defining Games: Raph Koster’s Game Grammar (tags: gamedesign grammar raph koster) lunit - Unit Testing Framework for Lua - Homepage (tags: programming testing unittest lua)…
Apple - Mac OS X Leopard - Features - 300+ New Features I like how they feature various bits of integration w/ both Google and Yahoo. No taking sides! (tags: apple osx lists leopard) Apartment Therapy - Inspiration: Color at the Covent Garden Hotel nice palettes. (tags: color hotels)…
I’m not especially homesick for Minneapolis, but there are things that I was sad to leave behind.
Apple: “we plan to have an iPhone SDK in developers’ hands in February” - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) it’s about frickin’ time. (tags: apple iphone programming development) Mac II couch (tags: macintosh furniture) SingStar Bollywood shuffles into Europe this Friday - Joystiq With subtitles. (tags: singstar karaoke bollywood) Is This Man Cheating on His Wife? - WSJ.com ‘the toll one man’s virtual marriage is taking on his real one and…
David Ortiz Is a Scientific Hitter in the Computer Age - New York Times ‘With one click, Ortiz can also watch every at-bat that he has ever had against Sabathia…. The batter-pitcher history compiled by the team is condensed to only include the pitches, not any tosses to first or visits from the pitching coach.’ (tags: baseball analysis david ortiz batting) The Last Appetite » Korea: French fry-coated hot dog These…
Nintendo Is Ad Age’s Marketer of the Year - Advertising Age - News ‘Wii and the handheld DS, along with their innovative software titles and accessories, were born in marketing. ’ Orly? (tags: nintendo wii ds marketing adage) Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: Porn 2.0 ‘Pornography is often criticized for the commodification of sexual experience — but these porn 2.0 sites complicate this argument…. Many [photographers…
You’re a Good Prop, Cruel Muse ‘with the publication this week of a highly anticipated biography by David Michaelis, “Schulz and Peanuts,” that examines seemingly every disappointment and slight (real or perceived) in Mr. Schulz’s 77 years, his reputation as tormented creative so (tags: charles schultz peanuts comics art depression biography) MyAnimeList.net - How Much Anime Have You Seen? socnet for anime/manga fans. (tags: anime manga socialsoftware lists)…
Why does this game grab me in a way that, say, Twilight Princess completely failed to do?
Sim Daltonism ‘a color blindness simulator for Mac OS X. It filters in real-time the area around the mouse pointer and displays the result — as seen by a color blind person — in a floating palette.’ (tags: accessibility software macintosh color design) Gore and U.N. Panel Win Peace Prize for Climate Work - New York Times Mr. Gore “is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater…
‘Sim City’ Partners With Big Oil For ‘Societies’ - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News ‘The game developers and BP both like the idea of “Sim City Societies” being a platform for some environmental role-playing…. “Can you make an industrial city that’s green?”’ (tags: games simcity bp environment sustainability urban) Zen of Design » Blog Archive » Nine Ways To Misuse Bartle’s Four Useful caveats when thinking…
ESPN - Seems It’s Worth Explaining that Indiana Post A Little More - TrueHoop Henry Abbott takes on basketball, “hip hop culture”, and race. (tags: basketball sports race indiana pacers) Popular Enoshima aquarium seal dies after 10 1/2-year run | The Japan Times Online RIP Lolrus. (tags: animals seal lolcats) Google tools to power virtual worlds | CNET News.com Google + Multiverse = ? (tags: google googleearth multiverse virtualworlds)…
gardens of eagan organic farm and wedge community co-op seal the deal The Wedge buys MN’s biggest organic farm. (tags: wedge gardensofeagan farming organic minnesota twincities grocery) How to Get Kids to Sleep More — New York Magazine ‘Here’s the stuff [docters would] love to tell you, if they weren’t afraid of overwhelming you with science.’ (tags: sleep children health)…
I don’t have a TV in my new apartment yet, but I did finally manage to get the Internet hooked up, so I was able to spend the weekend bingeing on some of the fall premieres that I’ve been missing.
Cerise Magazine » Fatal Frame: Feminizing the Final Girl ‘Instead of requiring a female lead to act as an androgynous being that can shift gender attributes to match the situation, the girls remain girls throughout the story, almost mocking the “Final Girl” theory.’ (tags: gamestudies film gender finalgirl fatalframe) foldschool - cardboard furniture ‘a collection of free cardboard furniture for kids, handmade by you. The downloadable patterns can be printed out…
What rat’s nest of random bedding have I been rolling around in for the past week and a half?
MTV Multiplayer » Bungie Talks About Jumping From Microsoft: “We Are Not Playing With Any New Devkits” ‘Our first independent project as a developer will be DLC published by our partner, Microsoft. So yeah, it will kind of be an FPS.’ (tags: gamedev bungie microsoft) Apartment Therapy - Desk55 by Cardboardesign ‘the desk is made from honeycomb cardboard.’ (tags: furniture cardboard recycling)…
The Rage Diaries: Is the color of your burnout green? ‘I thought I’d compile a list of suggested changes that we can consider in reducing/reusing/recycling. Most of them don’t require a huge commitment or time or money.’ (tags: environment home lists) plasq.com - Skitch - Snap, Draw, Share Screenshots/camshots, paint, and uploading. (tags: macintosh paint socialsoftware graphics)…
Movable Life 2-D Browser UI for Second Life. This might actually make 2L usable. (tags: secondlife virtualworlds ui)…
Lua: 5.1 reference manual (tags: lua programming reference)…
Why game design is important ‘A long, long time ago I worked at a company that did not have a game design position, and I wanted to convince the people there that, you know, maybe you should have game designers.’ (tags: gamedesign)…
Why am I going to write all of this month’s posts in the form of lists?