I just downloaded the demo of prey for the XBOX 360 and boy am I feeling really nauseous. Last week the IT crowd at GL got together to game at Alpine and after a couple hours of first-person shooter mayhem I became extremely nauseous too and tonight it only took 5 minutes. I think it might be the games being too fast and/or too cramped.
I really don’t know what it is, whether it’s a fast game or if it’s a corridor game; tonight it was a dark tight-corridor horror game that was really fast, last week it was CoD2 which isn’t dark but we were running through buildings pretty fast. Maybe it’s a good thing that I can’t physically play these games anymore because with the few shooters coming out that I intended to get are no longer options and I might just have to deal with downloading the free demos.
I’ve been meaning to take pictures of my new cube for weeks now but Meredith made me this awesome drawing on my white-board today and I had to show it off and while I was at it I took pics of the rest of my domain.
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June 29
Superman Returns was pretty good. I’ll give it a five star review when Sara puts it on Netflix.
I don’t know how much the movie followed the mythos of Superman since anything goes in comic adaptive movies now-a-days, and instead of ruining most of the movie for the people who haven’t seen it, the main development of the … Read More »
June 28
One of our favorite summer shows this year is NBC.com’s Treasure Hunters. The clues are may be a little obvious at times but they can’t be too hard.
The show’s structure aside the “characters” are perfect. They have the largest diversity I’ve ever seen and the groups are fun and appealing. The Browns are awesome but being so physically disabled they have no chance. And the hicks are absolutely ridiculous, I almost don’t want them to loose so I can watch how dumb they are, they truly are the biggest hicks I’ve ever seen. After I think about it, maybe the stereotypes in the teams make them “fun and appealing”.
Update: I’d also like to say that the Fogals genuinely piss me off. They are a disgrace to Christian families around the US and I would take it as far as saying they are bad people; dishonest and mean spirited.
digg 3.0 was released today and I’ve been anticipating seeing the other news outside of tech. So the new version has been released and it’s not as great as I’d thoughtlike it to be. For some reason they’ve missed a few things that I thought were inherent.
digg.com defaults to the tech category. This should be the next thing they “add” because I as a registered user shouldn’t have to click the all button every time.
The new categories are great, they’re really broad and the scope is large but they’re missing a few. One category that they need is a digg category. It really urks me to see 1 out of 10 “dugg” front page posts being about digg, that’s so lame.
A solution to the above without having to create more categories would be filters. Give the ability for registered digg users to “clean” out what they see more then what the categories could do.
An added feature of the said filters would be custom RSS feeds through filters, how cool would that be?
A bury feature they had before, “old news” is gone. This was one of the most used bury functions I used because I always see old junk on the front page.
These are all simple things that digg could incorporate now and make the system much better and easier to use in my eyes.
Some of my wishes.
Since I’ve been using digg as a link library, replacing my del.icio.us, user tagging could be enabled.
It’s against their model but if users were able to embed videos in the descrition it would keep users there to see more of the newly added ads. I don’t really care for this feature but it might be in there best interest.
OPML upload with simple RSS agregation for the registered users. It would be so cool to be able to read all your other feeds with the ability to click submit to digg or you could automatically digg an item from the aggregator itself to promote the article/story without even changing the page. Maybe information aggregation isn’t their absolute model but it seems like digg can easily gain new users and keep users on their pages without veering too far off the current model of link promotion.
