Marathon: Aleph One I had no idea that Bungie released the Marathon source to the community, and I certainly had no idea there was a way to play Marathon on a Mac OS X/Windows/Linux machine at this point. On a similar note, did anyone else notice that the opening scene in the first board of Halo (the best game for the Xbox, and the one that made me actually get an Xbox) is sort of the same one from Marathon 2?
Davezilla makes me laugh, and coffee then comes out of my nose, which makes me remember to visit his site without hot liquids in my hand or mouth.
This watch syncs with your Pocket PC(there is a Palm version too) to let you carry your contacts with you. It reminds me of the George Carlin routine about your house being just a place to keep your stuff, and when you travel, you bring a smaller version of your stuff, and if you then take a day trip somewhere, you need to com up with an even smaller version of your stuff. It’s like that.
The iMac Challenge I’m very confused by this story. Jim Hied is a MacWorld editor, so you would think he knows how much expansion you can do with Firewire ports. You can add virtually anything you might want. However, despite mentioning the ports in the article, he says that the new iMac is “not expandable.” It’s quite expandable.
PhotoDude notes the Atlanta connection that came through for the US bobsled team. I still can’t figure that one out either. It snowed here once this year though, so maybe that’s when they practiced.
Is Weblog Technology Here to Stay or Just Another Fad? Oh my god, a Forrester analyst quoted talking about the future of Weblog technology, well that’s the death knell:-) (via Scripting News)
Ogg Drop for Mac OS X in case you were looking for a Mac OS X Ogg Vorbis converter.
infoSync : Hitachi shows CE .NET PDA PocketPC is moving along at quite a clip now.
Canada: 5 USA: 2 The game was closer than the score would indicate. It’s their game, and man oh man was their team a powerhouse today. Everything was great about this game, the officiating, the level of effort, the team play, and the attitude of the players. I’m happy, after the disaster at the Nagano games, that we walked away with the Silver medal. What do I have to complain about, I’m an Atlanta Thrasher’s fan, and it’s going to be a few years before I’m for a team that has the chance to win a Stanley Cup.
Mathowie: The future of music
Sometimes, simple hints are the best kind: Slash Forward
Bush Proposing to Shift Burden of Toxic Cleanups to Taxpayers Thanks George, I’m sure that industry feels like it gots it’s money’s worth on those contributions now. How can anyone, anyone at all, see this as the just way to go about this? (link via the always informative rc3.org)
This browser speed test on Mac OS X, which is on the Chimera site, shows Chimera to be the speed champion. I can’t remember the last time that brand new beta software was so substantially faster than the established industry players. I was using it for a couple of days on my TiBook, and can say it was much faster at rendering pages than the other Mac OS X browsers, but also is not complete yet. (Oh and they released a new version on Friday too.)
My free Six Degrees Calendar qarrived yesterday. It’s actually a nice, albeit difficult to read from a distance, desk calendar.
CNET: Picture this: Photoshop on Mac OS X Okay, like there isn’t enough anticipation for this app’s release right nwo to begin with? I mean they have been talking about it for months, they demoed it at MacWorld, the whole OS X community knows it’s on it’s way. So why announce it two months prior to its actual release? I’m happy it’s on its way, and its nice to have a better idea of when, but sometimes I do not understand software companies marketing departments at all.
O’Reilly Network: Steven Johnson on “Emergence”
My stuff owns me.
I’ve decided I’d much rather know when a site is updated and visit it than have the headlines pushed to me. Thankfully, I can do either.
eeesh, the men’s gold medal game is tomorrow. my bad
The gold medal Men’s hockey game is coming up. I will, of course, be in the corner of my country, but I have to say that I think that Canada has an advantage going in. Not so much in talent(although you could argue that as well), but more in the fact that the US played a much more difficult and physical game yesterday. It’s a physical sport, and they were running out of gas by the end of the game last night. Go USA!!
Slashdot: Linux and Mac OS X This is a great thread.
Hack the Planet Prime:: “If you’re going to put a screen shot of your software on the Web, please use the OS default theme.” I have a tip to add to this. I’m building an ftp archive of all of the software and utilities that I use on both Windows and the Mac OS. When creating an installer application for your piece of software, please name it something that somehow relates to what it is and can be understood by someone who didn’t actually build the software. If I had a nickel for every installer that was named install.exe or just installer, I wouldn’t be looking for a job right now.
Radio UserLand : How to create a Radio compatible Comments Service
I’ve added comments to the Radio Bump site. So now you can tell me just how meaningless the drivel I post is. I, of course, am quite happy about this feature addition. To use the feature, just click on the discuss link below each post.