Regret The Error: "Quite the Industry Advocate"
Posted: March 31, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentA story in Tuesday's Tropical Life section about the safety of personal-care products misstated the views of Irene Malbin of the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association. She did not suggest that shampoos and hair dyes might have cancer-causing ingredients.
Oops :-D This was Miami Herald's screwup. Here's the link.
–YY
Dammit!
Posted: March 31, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentI was keeping my new gmail address pristine – I was keeping it far, far away from any hint of spam. Now that's gone – someone went ahead and sent me an Evite at that address. I can hardly wait for the crapola coming from them, not to mention that evite can now link my spam-friendly address that I use for that sort of thing with my gmail address.
Note to anyone reading this – DO NOT SEND ME E-VITES! If you want to invite me somewhere, put the damn details in the e-mail directly. Don't force me to give my personal info to a stupid company to read where your party is. Dammit!!!
–YY
C# Programming Contest
Posted: March 29, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commenthttp://csharp-home.com/index/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=151
Let's see what you can do!
–YY
La Vida Robot – Wired Magazine
Posted: March 29, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentThis story from Wired is freakin' cool:
How four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from MIT in the national underwater bot championship. By Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.
–YY
Why I Hate World of Warcraft
Posted: March 28, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentWorld of Warcraft is apparently the best online role-playing game out there. Its sales are through the roof, and the demand is overwhelming. All of which are reasons why I HATE this game.
Honestly, I'm not about to spend $15 a month and countless hours “leveling up” my alter ego by killing bunnies. It just doesn't interest me that much. What I do like to do is play the single player Warcraft and Starcraft games. But since WoW is such a cash cow for Blizzard Software, it's in their best interest to keep producing online games, probably at the expense of the single player games that I love. I'm not sure this is how it's going to play out, but why would Blizzard spend time and money developing a game that sells for a one-time price of $50 when they can develop a game that sells just as many copies for the same $50 plus $15 a month? It would be crazy of them not to! Oh well…
–YY
What's On Google News?
Posted: March 27, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentThis site will tell you a good number of their sources.
Some Wacky Stuff Involving Genes
Posted: March 23, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentI'm too tired to read it thoroughly, but The New York Times has an article on “a startling discovery [by] geneticists at Purdue University”. It's on the front page, so it's probably big.
–YY
Google News' Sources
Posted: March 22, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentA lot of obviously justified noise has been made of Google's inclusion of a White Supremacist website (no I'm not linking to it) as a “news” source in Google News. It's hard to maintain the aura of true objectivity (after all, they're not reporting – just aggregating) when they do crap like this.
I agree with Jeff Jarvis – Google, release a list of your news sources!
–YY
Tragedy in Minnesota
Posted: March 22, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentFrom the New York Times:
“In northern Minnesota, a student killed his grandparents, five fellow students, a teacher and a security guard, as well as himself.”
My heart goes out to the families of the victims of this senseless tragedy.
–YY
Beware the MS Marketplace
Posted: March 21, 2005 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentWorthPlaying has an article about Microsoft's plan to add “microtransactions” into games. The idea would be that you could spend extra money for better virtual gear (like $2 for stronger armor, let's say). This is causing a major brouhaha across the gaming world, so discuss!
So far, PressTheButtons is against it.
–YY