*Author’s note: As I mentioned in my original post regarding TAPS, I stated that while I will not attempt to cover my tracks at having written these words from a very, very frustrated place, I will no longer allow myself (or anyone, really) to speak ill of another person working in my field on interest. [...]
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Pirates Aren't Just On the Water or Why Livenation is Now Dead to Me
A week ago I went to the NIN/JA tour, a farewell tour for Nine Inch Nails and a reunion tour for Jane’s Addiction. As I sit and reflect on just how good the show was, and it was great, I am still, a week later, having to lean to one side due to the enormous [...]
Microsoft Games the Bing Search Results
Saw this on Digg, they are search result comparisons between Google and Microsoft’s new “Bing” search engine with an $80 million ad campaign behind it:
Given those results, I have to imagine Microsoft is going to allow advertisers to pay for higher search result placement — which, like this, will give us more helpful and completely [...]
Twelve Miles and a Hundred Years from Integrity…
Writing a book is easy. Promoting a book and finding avenues through which to sell your book and get gigs that allow you to whore said book is really, really hard. That is why when we visited a famous local wild west attraction, I left with such a sense of pleasant surprise, that I almost floated [...]
3D Realms + EPIC = DNF Was a Guerilla Marketing Scheme (The Chair Story)
Laurence Hartje just sent me a link over to Charlie Wiederhold’s blog where he reiterates the “Chair Story”.
We were talking about 3D Realms’s announced death and thought things started to sound fishy when Laurence sent this along. At first glance “The Chair Story” sounded stupid, but it was from a 3D Realms insider from back [...]
Duke Nukem ForNEVER
Update #1: Confirmed, 3D Realms is dead.
Big thanks to Ted Regulski for sending this one in and Laurence Hartje for the clever post title.
ShackNews is reporting that 3D Realms is currently in a “situation”. The assumption, given that the company hasn’t released a game in 37 years, is that the “situation” is they are “broke” [...]
Google Might Want to Look at Some Adsense Campaigns Closelyer
… yes, I just did that, I used that reference (skip to 1:34)
I was logged into Gmail today checking some mail and replying to some folks when I saw this on the right hand side of my screen:
You realize how those ads get there right? When those companies create ad campaigns, they type in keywords [...]
Verified by Visa is Useless
I was just shopping on Newegg and decided to purchase some more RAM for my computer. I added the item to my shopping card, hit purchase, entered my Credit Card info and hit Finish.
I had forgotten that I had enabled the frustratingly stupid “Verified by Visa” check-out security process in the past… I somehow always [...]
A Sucking in Connecticut
Now y’all had to know I would go see this. I plan on spoiling the everloving HELL right out of it, so if you plan on seeing it, just stop reading now.
****** Seriously, I am holding nothing back. You have been warned. ******
Okay, so, I am fairly certain that most of you have seen the [...]
Why the Resident Evil 5 Versus Mode is Scarier Than the Game Itself
One of the selling points of all of the new systems, particularly in reference to their various online services, is the ability to download extra content. This extra content varies from new levels, modes, characters, costumes, and anything else you can imagine. One of the first offerings out of the gate of Microsoft’s Xbox Live [...]
Atari Hates Gamers – Riddick Locked to 3 Install Limit
Looks like some buzz going around the net that the DRM used on Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for the PC (by Atari) is hard-locked to 3 install counts and then the game will not install again. (Thread 1, Thread 2)
Early indications suggest that there isn’t even an support number to call to [...]
Netflix Bumps Blu-ray Access Price up 500%
Given the already impecable service we are receiving from Netflix, it looks like we are getting blessed with a price-hike as well for Blu-ray movie access.
When HD disks (Blu-ray and HD-DVD) first dropped at Netflix, they were free for months. Then after Blu-ray won, Netflix shortly announced a premium price-hike for Blu-ray access that was [...]
Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming Performance for Viewers
What’s Going on with Netflix Streaming Performance?
I noticed about 3 weeks ago my streaming video performance from Netflix has become unbearably slow. I’m on a 7 mbps Qwest DSL line in Tucson, AZ and my previous experience with Netflix “Watch Instantly” service had generally been excellent, almost never showing the buffering screen for a movie [...]
Octomom (Lady Who Had Octuplets) May Get $1.24 Million Mansion
Does the lady above look familiar? She should, she used to look like this. That’s right, this is the “Octomom”, or more specifically the wonderful human being that got implanted with more embryos than is though to be legal in order to add 8 more children to her existing litter of 6… that’s right… 14 [...]
AT&T Cell Network Sucking Hard for the iPhone Recently?
AT&T invented illegal wiretapping, monopolies and crushing corporate power, but what they also bring to the table is exclusive rights to Apple’s much-desired iPhone.
When the iPhone was first announced on the AT&T network, I still remember the following response from a group of friends about 20-strong:
50% – Sweet! I’m getting one!
50% – Nice phone, there [...]
MSI Scams Buyers On Rebates
This is a common scenario for most nerds. You have a gadget on the mind. It might be a monitor, a video card, a phone, or in my case a notbook. You do the research, memorize the specs, model names, prices, and they you wait for a reason to bite. That reason ranges from waiting [...]
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