February 2012
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WatchThe Avengers Superbowl Trailer (Extended Cut) in glorious 1080p. EDIT: Okay I uploaded a 1080p video, but Tumblr seems to have stolen the quality. Shame on them. Go here for 1080p, fullscreen, fruity goodness.
Oh my GOD that 360 shot, I creamed myself. I need a 3D IMAX theatre. Where is there an IMAX?
I will go to London on my own to see this movie if I have to.
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January 2012
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Coyote Tracks: Fear the hashtags of rage →
chipotle:
In large part I hate hashtags for the same reason I hate most user-generated content tagging. The point of tagging is to organize data—tweets, blog posts, Word documents, porn pictures, whatever—with a taxonomy that makes it easy to find related data. But this isn’t what most crowd-sourced tagging systems get you. What you usually get are a lot of jokes, some of which are funny, many...
Hunt on for randy anti-social dildo user from... →
Well, this beats the guy who lived a couple floors down from me with his 24/7 raves when I was there.
Guys at the Cranborne House halls of residence on St Paul’s Place, who couldn’t believe their luck to begin with, have since grown weary at the constant pleasuring by the horny female with her trusty tool.
“At first we couldn’t get enough of hearing her but now we just want some peace – she...
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So, I have a new Tumblr theme.
I’ve been writing this (from scratch of course) sporadically for a little while now and it’s finally come to a stage in which I’m willing to use it on my own blog, sort of as a beta test.
Once I’m happy I’ve worked out all the kinks, I’m thinking I’ll put it up on the Theme Garden and see if anyone in the general public likes it.
I’ve tested this...
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Who likes nostalgia?
The theme from Battlefield...
RIM co-CEOs stepping down in a “surprise exit” →
“Someone else can take it from here”
(via @marcoarment)
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December 2011
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How does the iPhone 4S camera stack-up against... →
The Camera+ for iPhone team take a look at how each generation of iPhone camera has changed, and how they compare to a high-end point-and-shoot camera (the Canon S95) and to a DSLR (Canon 5DMKII).
Most interesting is this photo - alongside an article from TheNextWeb observing how Apple redefined photography with the iPhone. Suffice it to say that I’d trade in my iPhone 4 for a 4S if I...
“The Twitter service I signed up for is one where people tweet 140-character...”
– John Gruber
Thoughts on iOS 5 notifications
The colours don’t really fit in with the rest of iOS. The whole slider feels a little out-of-place.
The ‘clear’ button on the notification slide-down is a bit of a UI nightmare. It’s teeny!
Clearing notifications for an app should also clear the app icon’s badge.
Otherwise, great work Apple (and Peter Hajas)
November 2011
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Entire Tamriel Landmass built into Skyrim.
I’m trying to steer clear of Skyrim news, mostly because I can’t make the time commitment to buy the game while I have a dissertation to work on. But Gods, this is awesome. I really want this game now.
ppsh-41:
I didn’t know if this was posted yet on tumblr, so I thought I’d do it. The landmass of almost all of the provinces in Tamriel, has been put into Skyrim. All which...
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Dear Skype; recently, your software sucks.
Well, what isn’t the problem? Frankly, and I do hate to be this blunt to the poor person sat behind the company Twitter account, it’s godawful.
Skype devs, I urge you to read the feedback in your app’s reviews. ‘Pretty bad’ doesn’t even cover it. And they’re nigh-unanimous. And correct.
Here’s a transcript of my own review:
This may be the...
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A Bad Time to be an FPS Fan? | IGN →
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Why Can't Programmers... Program? | SpringBoard →
I set out to develop questions that can identify this kind of developer and came up with a class of questions I call “FizzBuzz Questions” named after a game children often play (or are made to play) in schools in the UK. An example of a Fizz-Buzz question is the following:
‘Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print...
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Review | Rock Paper... →
I got plenty out of Oblivion (especially the thieves’ and assassins’ guilds arcs) but it did feel hollow, bland and awkward compared to its predecessor. Fallout 3 I found boring, contrived and clumsy, though I deeply wanted to like it. I seriously worried Skyrim would, for all its talk of lavishness, depth and dragons, continue the transformation into a trudging, consolified action game filled...
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Kid Gets Copy of Skyrim Stolen Out of Hands 5 Feet...
iheartchaos:
I just got back from the midnight release of the game, Skyrim. There was a 13 year old boy there. He walked out of the store with his fresh copy and, about 5 feet out the door, some shit-eating douchebag swiped it right out of his hands and ran with it. No one tried to stop him and I was too far away to do anything about it.
I talked to the kid. He was on the verge of tears.
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