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Sep 29

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The true weblog portion of drzy. Bookmarks from around the internet this last week. Updated every Sunday evening.

Terminator iPhone meta-game

Sep 26

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The hype team behind Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles has released a multi-platform metagame, named Terminator Ambush.

Play consists of two levels.  On one hand you are the hunted.  Use an iPhone to check in using your GPS location via their Ambush iPhone application.  Which looks like this:

You get points for putting in more location, but then the other portion of the game comes into play.  On the Terminator Ambush website, you are tracked by your check-ins on a non-descript virtual map.  Hunters can use this data to try and determine your next check-in point and lay a trap.  If they get you, you are terminated.

I’m not sure if it’s entirely working, as I used the iPhone app while running around town today.  It shows my plots but my score has not been updated at all.  The plot points were much shorter distance apart on the virtual map than I had thought, that with the large trap reticle, it should be easy to terminate people.  What I mean is, I went in 10 mile sweep through Austin while running errands, and my path markings are just about contained in a one-inch square area.

Yes, it’s a little big-brothery that you are uploading your GPS data, but luckily it doesn’t show any real-world tie-in for people to actually track you or anything.  But, meta-gaming like this is a fun idea, that I expect will become even more popular now, with all the iPhones and other GPS phones being released.  There was a another game announced previously called Parallel Kingdom which has a more involved concept of building virtual buildings and such as a sort of GPS MMO.

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Cookie Monster Slayer

Sep 23

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Cookie Monster Slayer

As seen at Dragoncon 2008 and posted on this flickr page.

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Big Dog new video leaked

Sep 22

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Sep 22

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Sep 15

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Testing Polls: iPhone 2.1

Sep 13

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Sep 8

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The Great Office War

Sep 3

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The Nerf machine gun in action.  

I had no idea there was a Nerf bazooka.


The Great Office War from Runawaybox on Vimeo

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Google Chrome WebBrowser released

Sep 2

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Google Chrome Logo 3D

In fact, I am posting from it now.

I was skeptical, and I wasn’t alone in that feeling, but I only had one day to be skeptical because they only announced this thing yesterday!  (Kudos for keeping it under wraps).

Google Chrome is a web browser built on WebKit, which powers other well known browsers such as Apple’s safari and KDE’s Konqueror.  Google included a cute online comic book to explain the technology here.  The gist being that the web browser uses entirely separate processes to load each separate tab.  This goes beyond simple multi-threading, and gets into OS territory.  They want to do this to eliminate browser hangups from ultiple tasks needing to use the same process.  While this can and will usitilize more memory and processor power, it also allows one to regulate it easier, especially memory-wise.  Plug-ins (when they appear) will also use separate processes.

The comic gets into computer science territory when they explain how they built their V8 from Webkit.  It streamlines object manipulization and pointer calls and other things you can read about there.

I’m impressed.  First off at the ease of slipping into it right from Firefox.  It handles the same keyboard commands I’m used to, and tabs behave much the same.  Two things it does not have that firefox has:

  • Memory munching.  Yes, it uses a spearate process and memory space for each tab, but these are confined spaces, unlike Firefox which could eat all my memory if I let it.
  • Addons. none. Zilch.  Yeah, it’s a beta, but man I need my add-ons.

The lack of add-ons will make me only piddle with Chrome when I feel like, not use it for a main browser.  For one, I have many that are hard to live without.  And two, Firefox is damn snappy without any add-ons, too, so it’s unfair to compare Chrome until it’s got the same capablities as a fully-loaded Firefox browser.

But the technology is impressive, and obviously since everything is open source, we are going to have a flood of add-ons coming very soon.

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extrinsic

Sep 1

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