Plugged directly into my inner 8-year-old

This is probably the best ad for a MacBook ever, at least for a certain demographic:



This magic brought to you through MacSaber and the built-in motion accelerometer.

I wonder if this can somehow be combined with the sensors in NikePlus to emulate the Flintstones running noise while walking. Or maybe personal soundtracks like in I'm Gonna Get You Sucka.

Busy busy busy

Funny how moving from the library to the printer mines has impacted my blogging time.

Today involved two meetings and three presentations, one delivered by e-mail. Oh, and somehow I found time to drink too much soda and get a haircut.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that Gone and Forgotten has come alive after its long hiatus with two stories. One is about Jimmy Olsen, another about super boxers.

Yeah, I didn't get it either.

Maple Story is a year old now, and they're celebrating with double XP days and double drop days. I'm busy during all of these events, but perhaps I'll make it during this weekend.

Videogames are mostly Old Home Week at our house, as I'm working my way through Total Annihilation and StarCraft. New games? 3D rendering? Not for me.

Careful, next I'll be digging out TADS and Inform again.

Spiritual successor

I've blathered about it before, but I'll do so again.

Back in the day I was quite fond of Total Annihilation. Gas-Powered Games (led by Chris Taylor, designer of TA and Dungeon Siege) announced a successor a while back, under a different name as Atari still owns the the rights to TA.

E3, land of candy and sunshine, has some footage from Supreme Commander:



Um, wow.

I know that demos at trade shows are never quite how it will be in the end, but that's still pretty impressive.

Haven't watched last night's episode of Lost yet, but I did get a pointer to subLYMONal.com, a Hanso Foundation site. If you click on things the right way, you'll get directed elsewhere, and if you poke around, you can find a PDF with a phone number on it.

Not sure I'll call it or not, though. The NSA is watching.

Gravitas-off

Colbert has been in the news a lot lately, but this clip (from either his first or second show) is still one of my favorite things ever.

Stephen Colbert vs. Stone Phillips in: GRAVITAS-OFF 2006

He's got the biggest/ Balls of them all

So last night Stephen Colbert, he of the eponymous Report, stepfather of Stephen Jr., formerly of The Daily Show and Strangers With Candy, went to Washington DC to speak at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. A corporate affair designed to engender warm feelings among the oligarchy, with light entertainment and some forced humor.

Instead of delivering a "Gosh, isn't saying 'strategery' funny," speech, he delivered the most amazing speaking-truth-to-power speech I've seen in years.

You can watch the video in lots of places.

There are also several sites with complete transcripts. DKos has the most complete one.

My favorite moment, one that will stay with me for years, is this one:

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe it's yogurt. But I refuse to believe it's not butter. Most of all, I believe in this president.

Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

So, Mr. President, please, pay no attention to the people that say the glass is half full. 32% means the glass -- it's important to set up your jokes properly, sir. Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.

In other news, Achewood is totally Airwolf today. I cannot get that theme song out of my head now. Thanks, Chris Onstad!