So it came up on some forums that a PR type from Sony stated that the playstation was the first 3D console. He didn’t, he said “introduced realtime 3-D for the first time” which means that Sony’s first use of realtime 3D was in 1994 on the PlayStation console. Factually correct, if a […]

Atari isn’t just stopping updates to NWN.  That would be understandable even with the modest sales it still offers with NWN2 around the corner.
The low blow proffered in the title, though, is their cancelling of all premium content modules.  Premium content modules which cost little to produce and must be reaping a fairly good return.
Really, […]

Something Dan over at Puritan City went off on got me thinking about the status of various contemporary media forms.
Not so much what his blurbicle is about, although that’s interesting too.  No… what I’m interested in is the statement about the grown-ups of media.
You see, since I started publishing way back in the halcyon days […]

Following up a story about an undocumented flaw in Word, to which my reaction was “people still use that? ” Andy Updegrove has written an article about press stories and how they spread.
Really, you can put “stories” in the bunny ears of death there, because it’s more about the lack thereof than any […]

Lest you be under the impression that I’m commending it on sucking the crap out of the drainage system.
After trying a few different types of drain cleaning product such as Drain-O and Liquid Plumber I went the old fashioned route and got a pipe snake. What that is is an auger on the end […]

If you were looking for a format to store your document in, what would you look at?  Robust support for whatever it is you’re doing and maybe cross compatibility, right?
Not Microsoft.  They’re so divorced from reality over in Redmond that their number one priority is on a format’s performance.  Over here in CT, we’re not […]

It’s been a while, but I’ve finally dusted off my writing keyboard and cracked out the first in a weekly series of Linux gaming articles.  First up, I’ve got Triplex Invaders, Maniadrive, and Lost Labyrinth.
If you’re interested in Linux games, PCBurn will be running a couple of game reviews on commercial releases in the near […]

For some reason, I found this page off the Humor! Humor! archives especialy (er..) humerous and wanted to share.  Bill Gates statement about auto manufacturing and GM’s response always cracks me up.
Humor! Humor! Archives- No Graphics Version of Humors 250-259

Released under an attribution Creative Commons license, the blender created Elephant Dreams has been released as the first Open movie.
I see this going over big with content re-mixers. More comments once I’ve actually seen the product, until then, take a looksie. (orange.blender.org)
Linux and Open Source Blog » ‘Elephants Dream’ - World’s First Open […]

Microsofts Word is now experiencing viral outbreaks on undocumented bugs.  All of you office worker types take note.
Chaulk one up for the crowd that thinks being locked down to a single proprietary format just might not be in the publics best interest.  Especially with text document formatting.  C’mon folks.  Does which set of instructions provides […]