Virtually worthless

Some folks are looking into options to better connect different virtual worlds. The theory, I guess, is the need for some to travel from WoW to Second Life to Kaneva, etc...

Seems like a reach.

My vote would be to get webpages working the same across browsers ahead of this noble effort. I know, that is crazy talk... have html work the same across systems and browsers??? No IE tab in FireFox???

Well... yeah, I thought that was the plan to start with.

Facing Mecca from space

No answers, just questions. The challenges of a Muslim in orbit.

On this day in 1979... Pac-Man arrives

The grand-daddy of video games, Pac-Man made it's way to America's shores on Oct. 10, 1979.

A few years later, we counted the days until we could shell out around $60 (1980s dollars!!) for the Atari 2600 version. Without a doubt the WORST translation on the game possible. The "Pac-Man" looked more like a lumbering, mutated, pixelated stop sign. This remains my ultimate moment of buyer's remorse.

It would have been moved to second place in my big mistakes list if I had not bailed at the last moment in purchasing the red LED 3-D Nintendo thingie - that looked just a bit too much like the result of an unholy union between a sniper rifle and a Viewmaster.

New link added

Way more design skills and likely deeper insight than found here, can be found here... JamieFike.com

Plasma screens around the world sigh in relief

Nintendo now packages the Wii with remote holders that reduce the likelihood that the control leaves your hand like a white boxy shuriken.

Will even send these (for free!!) to early adopters.

Life is good

Cubs swept, Bears beat the Pack... all in all a good weekend :)

Prove you are human

Nope, not a fringe Dune post, just a cool Captcha tshirt.

Sony unveils the world's first OLED television

OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology seems pretty cool. Thinner, brighter display... less power... more "green"

But OLED degrades over time, I guess you would call that monitor rot :)