I don't know where they've been for the past decade but... apparently, CNN just barely discovered the internet. They call this news? Lemme clue y'all in on a little secret: On the internet, angry talk is the mode of communications. TCP/IP stands for "Total Crappy Prattler Is Pissed." Honest. You can look it up on the internet. On the web, nobody reads anything unless they wanna. . . [more]. . .

I'm convinced that Microsoft releases new versions of MSIE just to see how many people they can get to commit suicide. And since my company relies heavily on the infernal browser, I've decided to re-theme my entire testing blog. No longer is it given an obscure name and a brown theme. I'm coloring it in a way that's reminiscent of MSIE's logo. The biggest offender in the w. . . [more]. . .

Found an essay with decentish content. This text was originally composed by computer game designer Chris Crawford in 1982. When searching for literature on the nature of gaming and its relationship to narrative in 1997, Prof. Sue Peabody learned of The Art of Computer Game Design, which was then long out of print. Prof. Peabody requested Mr. Crawford's permission to publish an electronic vers. . . [more]. . .

Now all articles are labeled with relative times instead of server times. Because 1) I hate having to figure out what timezone everyone's in, 2) because I don't care about precise times nearly as much as I do about relative times. Therefore, articles are shown as being created "3 hours ago" instead of at "08:27" server time. This makes for much faster reads of less cryptic looking text. . . [more]. . .

I've been enjoying the growth of my foosball game until the last couple of weeks. I think I've hit that weird intermediate stage that you get to when you've gotten so good that you just plain suck like a puss-oozing prostitute on the corner of Bangerter highway. I hit this stage in SoulCalibur, too. It's that state where you've learned how to do more than button mash so you. . . [more]. . .

In this report, we read: The developers said their intentions were to make the story deep and immersive, much more so than even Warcraft 3. Running missions will earn you credits, which you can then use to upgrade your technology. You'll be able to customize your fighting force to suit whichever playstyle you like. Now this idea is fine, in theory. But I know enough about video games to know. . . [more]. . .

Dear Open Source Community, Please stop giving your software projects stupid names. I'm serious. I don't care what language you built your stupid mail server in and I can't remember that many levels of obscure, recursive acronyms. It's impossible to keep your projects' names straight and you don't have the decency to get rid of the SourceForge records of projects that a. . . [more]. . .

Greetings, mortals. I killed the little "Info" panel on the right-hand side of the default schema and replaced it with nothing!.... Actually, I replaced it with the ability to click on the current page's title to expand a quicker, more concise version of the page info. There you'll find all the appropriate info/archive links that you typically found in page info or in the silly links tha. . . [more]. . .

Quoth This article: PALE, overweight couch potatoes. That's the stereotype of avid online computer gamers, but these joystick junkies are actually in better than average physical condition, a new US survey suggests, although they may be less healthy mentally.That's right, kids, we're in better shape than thou thinkest. I'm also way happier than those other gametards out there. . . . [more]. . .

This article contains the Sega eulogy for the Dreamcast. "Dreamcast was a phenomenal 18 months of pain, heartache, euphoria," recalls Moore in the article. “We thought we had it, but then PlayStation came out, that infamous issue of Newsweek with the Emotion Engine on the cover… and of course, EA didn't publish, which left a big hole, not only in sports but in other genres. We ended up tha. . . [more]. . .