I’m not retarded.
Courtesy of the forums at Quarter To Three comes this little gem: IGN declares the Playstation 3 to be the “best new game console” of 2006. Their rationale? The PS3 plays DVDs and you can install Linux on it. And maybe there might be a good game or two sometime next year.
When the remake of Sid Meier’s Pirates! was released in 2004, I completely passed it by. I was thoroughly addicted to the original 1987 release. I simply assumed that the major effect of any remake would be to embitter me by wrapping the trappings of the franchise around a sucky game.
I recently rented the game from Gamefly, out of morbid curiosity.
I was wrong. The Xbox version of Sid Meier’s Pirates!
It’s the time of year to do “best of the year” or “most of the year” or “worst of the year” lists. I couldn’t focus on any one theme, so after spending some time in a food-induced coma, I came up with the following hodge podge of “of the year” topics.
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I got this working today in the Atom, RDF, and RSS 2.0 feeds. It’s not working in the RSS 1 feed, but WordPress’s RSS 1 feed sucks anyway, and if you’re using that feed you should change to a different one.
Using the RDF feed as an example, all I did was change this line:
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_content('', 0, '') ?>]]></content:encoded>
to this:
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_content('', 0, '') ?><p><?php comments_popup_link('Comment now »',
'1 Comment »', '% Comments »', 'commentslink');
?></p>]]></content:encoded>
Hope that helps those of you who were looking to do something similar.
Surely, I must be one of the first people to post to their blog from a Nintendo Wii. I’ve only found one other Wiiblog entry so far.
To type, you use the Wiimote like a laser pointer. It’s a bit ponderous. But editing is quite easy.
Hmmm. I wonder how much work it would be to attach little Mii icons to each post…
The user-agent comes across as “Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1309-9; en)â€
Happy festivus, everyone.
Today I got tons of stuff done at work, finished editing three articles for Played To Death, did the Christmas shopping, and began work on a gift I’m making for someone.
But I didn’t write a real article for the weblog. My apologies. Anyone have a time machine?
When I was in high school, I was a bit of a dork. No really, it’s true. Back then even a passing interest in the emerging digital technologies was looked upon with suspicion and would get you beat up during study hall. We geeks were antisocial outcasts relegated to self-created school ghettos while the normal people did normal people things while dressing better.
Over time the things that used to amuse us dorks have slowly wormed their way into the everyday lives of normal people. So while they may still be better dressed, a sociological flip-flop has occurred. The evidence is all around us. Normal people have turned into bigger dorks than any of us could have imagined possible. Collectively, we have become Dork Nation.
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We’ve cut over DNS, and so you are viewing the new site. Our old articles are still available at their original URLs, so any direct links you had to them previously should still work.
For the time being, we are requiring logins to leave comments, until we better understand our spam-fighting options. But don’t think of it as yet another annoying password to remember: think of it as a chance to join our community (by remembering yet another annoying password). (psu informs me that we’ve turned off requiring logins, but I encourage regular posters, particularly those who might want to write for Tea Leaves, to go ahead and register anyway.
While you’re here, please enjoy Corey Kosak’s article Computer Scientists and Cruciverbalism”.
It’s good to be back.
It seems to be a reasonable childrearing principle that you should give kids a break in order to foster their creativity. “Look, Mummy, I’ve made you a dinosaur out of cotton balls and toothpicks!” “Oh Billy, that’s so precious.” And it is. But at some point, say after Billy has gotten his PhD in computer science, you need to finally expose him to the idea that the world is a competitive place and he needs to be a harsher critic of his own stupid ideas. (more…)
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