Hilarious: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71720-0.html?tw=rss.index
When Microsoft’s next flight simulator ships, it looks like they’re going to have some incredible features such as built in support for air traffic control and cockpit sharing. Here’s a fun little YouTube video that shows off these features (and more): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsCpH7nqmS0
There’s a book out called "Imagining the Tenth Dimension", which I’ll have to pick up and read sometime. Meanwhile, they have a really unbelievably incredibly slick flash animation that helps you visualize what in the world the universe could possibly do with 10 dimensions.
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2006/05/click_drag_type.php
Apparently, I can post blog entries from Word 2007 Beta 2, just like this. Neat.
The story of the dead Mac Mini gets even better: I took the computer in to the Apple store. They directed me to get in line at the Genius Bar (what a silly name, but that’s another entry). While waiting for an available Genius, the sales droid and I took my computer over to try [...]
I bought myself a Mac Mini the other week just so I could refresh my dreadfully obsolete Apple knowledge (last time I touched a Mac was probably in 1990). I literally asked the first salesman who made eye contact with me to show me the cheapest computer in the store. Maybe that’s where I went [...]
An article on siliconvalley.com that was talking about the recent class action settlement between video game publisher EA and some of its employees who were whining about being overworked has the following interesting thing to say: in November, EA’s Los Angeles studio tried cutting work hours with a process it called “Five Great Days,” which [...]
[Long, rambly post follows. It may provide some insight into why I haven't been posting as much lately as I have at some times in the past.] Lately I’ve been working harder than I’ve ever worked before with some of the smartest, coolest people I’ve ever met on one of the most interesting projects I [...]
Two really cool dice puzzles that have already been solved to death by bored mathematicians: Nontransitive dice Number three blank dice such that one of the dice (say die A) beats another of the dice (die B) more than half of the time, which in turn beats die C more than half of the time. [...]