“Find the hidden objects” casual gaming phenomenon coming to XBLA. I love these things, hope they’re still playable on a big fuzzy standard def TV.
A five-minute lightning talk on airships and their disastrous history. Nobody does infectious enthusiasm quite like Simon Willison.
Gothically styled silhouetted obstacle avoidance flash game.
The apathetic owners of this great but under-used site for video game news and criticism have re-invented themselves as a very funny and well produced podcast. Contributor pedigree includes Gamasutra & Shacknews.
A new competitor for the RubyCocoa bridge, directly from Apple. Tighter integration leading to better performance, and named arguments allowing for more natural translations of method names. Looks genuinely useful.
Genius. I’m glad someone is actually thinking about how to fix this stuff rather than just endlessly debating tabs vs. spaces. Hope the developers of all the major text editors take a serious look at this.
Apparently I’m not the only one who hates TinyURL and pals. The founder of del.icio.us expresses his distaste for them over at Hacker News.
Test your visual measuring abilities by guesstimating the correct positions of points.
A relatively simple implementation in Python by way of explanation. By Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google and author of popular books on AI programming.
Really nicely paced slide-based guide on how to read the stars. Loading image-slices sometimes give the game away sadly, would’ve been better served by flat image maps.