Jesper nails my feelings on the current status of my favorite web browser. OmniWeb is the only browser I’ve ever paid for, and probably the only one I ever will. It’s great, but it needs some TLC. Don’t miss Omni Group’s CEO Ken Case comment.
As if it wasn’t already easy to love Left 4 Dead, they give me this:
For more on Chicago Ted see this GameFAQs thread, any public bathroom near Chicago, or The Urinal Mints song “Chicago Ted“:
The Urinal Mints were also featured on issue 6 of Warren Ellis’ podcast, the 4am.
BBC Archive presents The Genesis of Doctor Who collection. Concept notes, background, photos. Great stuff.
Awesome:
We can always use another knuckleballer.
The question:
Most of the comments seem to say “figure out exactly what it is Yahoo! does.” Which is a pretty good place to start. Right now, I’m not sure anyone knows.
I wonder why Flickr wasn’t all over this one? Anyway, millions of hi-res photos, new to me and you. I found the photo from the cover of They Might be Giants’ album Flood in about 35 seconds.
Totally worth 99 cents. I spent many many hours as a child, on my first computer (a Laser clone) playing this in all it’s green screen glory.
Not surprising. My guess is that MS probably dumped a heap of money and incentives on MLB for the first year, and then didn’t want to do it again.
The author of Liar’s Poker reminds us what went wrong.
I expected readers of the future to be outraged that back in 1986, the C.E.O. of Salomon Brothers, John Gutfreund, was paid $3.1 million; I expected them to gape in horror when I reported that one of our traders, Howie Rubin, had moved to Merrill Lynch, where he lost $250 million; I assumed they’d be shocked to learn that a Wall Street C.E.O. had only the vaguest idea of the risks his traders were running. What I didn’t expect was that any future reader would look on my experience and say, “How quaint.”
I… yes. Well done, Japan. Nightmare fodder. It seems like some kind of parody, partially because all they keep saying is “yay” and “cute”.
I consider it my home town, and it’s falling apart. I’ve been friends with the bartender who was shot for years and years.
I’m not sure if this is some of the dumbest advertising I’ve ever seen, or a brilliant satire.
Game designer Tim Schafer (Psychonauts, Day of the Tentacle) has posted the original puzzle document for Grim Fandango on the Double Fine blog. Grim Fandango is 10 years old this week! Here’s the PDF.
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