There have been similar posts on other sites about this, but it never occurred to me that I would have any use of these tips until I had read rialvalue's "Some little gems on OSX you might want to know". ...Read More
6 award-winning and/or nominated games, all for $20 USD. I haven't demoed all of these games, but I can tell you that this bundle is totally worth it if you just play Amanita Design's Machinarium (which is usually $20 by ...Read More
Nice CNN Op-Ed piece by Bruce Schneier on the role US policy had in the Chinese hacks of Google. He makes a strong case against backdoor access systems for law enforcement, i.e., that building a backdoor access system is just ...Read More
Adobe Media Encoder CS4 (AME) is a stand-alone app that comes with Flash CS4 and After Effects CS4. While it has the ability to do batch encoding and HD h264 .f4v's (basically a .mp4 file in a flash wrapper), with ...Read More
1,000 must be the magic number of late. Two game designers have posted $1000 rewards for their game projects. Mary Flanagan, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College and Director of the Tiltfactor Laboratory, is asking Dartmouth ...Read More
Interesting NY Times article by Kate Zernike, on colleges focusing more on training for specific jobs and careers: The Association of American Colleges and Universities recently asked employers who hire at least 25 percent of their workforce from two- or four-year ...Read More
Whether it's web development, media production, or writing that school term paper, version control is always A GOOD THING, especially when more than one person is involved. Good version control: allows a developers to concurrently work on the same section ...Read More
This past weekend, I got to see King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a documentary focused on two men, Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell, and their efforts to get the world record high score for the classic arcade game, ...Read More
Has it really been almost six months since my last post? Oui vey. Yeah, the Sukimon crew went underground during that time, to tend to various projects (coaching high school tennis, switching jobs, looking for a new place to live, bought ...Read More
With a runtime of over 23 minutes, this is one of the more painful video captures I've ever seen, a Super Mario Brothers mod, apparently created by some masochistic Taiwanese. Hardest. SMB. Mod. Ever. One can just watch the first couple ...Read More
