Being a trombone player in high school, as well as an enormous Super Mario fan, this entertained me enormously.
Productivity: IMified and 30boxes
I had never even heard of either IMified or 30boxes until I saw a demonstration of both provided by Scoble (actually, it’s courtesy of Erica, but Scoble videoed it). Now I’m using both, and absolutely loving them. 30boxes is essentially a calendering suite. But it’s much more than that. It’s faster and sleeker then Google […]
Ficlets: making mini-fiction into a social app
This. Is. Brilliant. John Scalzi has announced the creation of Ficlets, which is basically a social app consisting entirely of collaborative short fiction. And it is a phenomenal idea. At the very heart of the concept is what we’ve been trying to do over at the Evil Avatar Writer’s Guild. Which is concentrate writing into […]
Nintendo to use tin cans and a string for Wii online
I don’t know. I’m not sure what to think about this. LOS ANGELES –(Business Wire)– GameSpy, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, announced today that it will provide multiplayer technology to game publishers developing titles for Nintendo’s Wii(TM) video game system. As part of an ongoing partnership with Nintendo, GameSpy has developed middleware technology to […]
‘Machine of Death’ – no longer worth the effort
I have a feeling the guys behind the Machine of Death anthology have had enough. They posted a new page in late February called “Approaches to Avoid“. This translates roughly to “we’ve received about 10 versions of each of these poorly-constructed concepts, and we’re through.” Unfortunately, it seems as though they’ve tossed every concept out […]
At least they’re honest about it
Number six on the list of things you evidently didn’t know about Wikipedia: We don’t want you to trust us. It’s in the nature of an ever-changing work like Wikipedia that, while some articles are of the highest scholarly quality, others are admittedly complete rubbish. We try to keep the ratio of the greatest to […]
Blind Date comic posted
Looks like mine and Whitney‘s Blind Date comic has been posted. You don’t have to check it out if you don’t want to, but it sure would be swell if you did.
Giant game of RISK!
During the Super Bowl, while everyone else watched some football game, a bunch of us die-hard gamers got together and played a giant game of RISK. Rather than recount the entire sordid tale, I’ll just link to the Evil Avatar post I made about it. It has pictures! And a running commentary. Needless to say, […]
On blind dates with school girls…
The Blind Date II event is all paired up. I was paired with the gracious and absurdly talented Whitney Jane Robinson of Alma Mater, a fantastic comic that just recently joined the ranks of the Modern Tales collective. To commemorate the event, she was interviewed by the illustrious Shaenon Garrity. It’s painful to read Robinson’s […]
Nintendo reaches out and touches…no one
I’d take a Nintendo Phone over an Apple iPhone any day of the week. [E]ngadget imobile has found a patent for a Nintendo Phone. Initially filed in 2001, and issued just last June, the patent describes an “electronic apparatus having game and telephone functions,” and details how the device would pause a game for an […]