According to GameTunnel, here are the independent developer games of the year. Some of these I know, and love. Some I haven’t ever seen, but plan on checking out. The soccer game (#10 on the list) looks really cool. Sorta Sim-Fifa. And Darwinia made the list. It’s a cool little game, too. Check all of the listed games out.
Month: January 2006
Calvin moment
I like Calvin and Hobbes. I got the complete collection for Christmas. I still subscribe to a daily strip update. It’s some of the best writing ever, and it’s in an easily digestable daily format. Here is a recent one that tops my list of funny strips.
Funnies for geeks
A real geek test
If the regular geek test isn’t geeky enough for you, check out this geek test. Why is this one better? Well, check out some of the questions:
- ROT13 this:trrxfnerterng
- What does this do: echo $dorks==$geeks?”yes”:”no”;
- Convert this from ASCII to English:49204561742046726F6773
Now, let me know how that worked out for you. Any one with a score they’d like to share? Let me know in the comments. Personally, I scored an 88:
Nutjob not from the left?
Looks like the left doesn’t hold a monopoly on nutjobs.
Very clever virus?
Whoa! Just read about the Feebs virus over at F-Secure. In addition to normal distribution by web download, this virus stays in memory, watches for outgoing mail connections, and when it sees one with a large MIME attachment injects itself into the attachment. This won’t make for a fast spreading virus, but it will make for smarter and more difficult to detect virus spread.
Discovery Channel DVDs
I’m a big fan of all kinds of geeky video stuff. I’d love to get this set, and it’s a deal at $10.
Sharing fat pipes with friends
How cool. Looks like a couple of companies are working on technology to make it easier to connect multiple high-speed home connections to share big fat data pipes with multiple people. If you hit that connection when none of your friends/neighbors are, you could get some absurdly high speeds through inexpensive home lines. I’m very interested in this.
Gaming Hobo
Here’s a site I plan on visiting often. I like this guy’s style.
Apple fixes small privacy rights issue
I didn’t write about the original problem, but apparently Apple has fixed an issue in which personal information was sent to Apple when users shopped in the iTunes store (and since I don’t shop there, I’ll admit to not carefully reading up on the problem). The fix is a simple and obvious one. Now, when shopping, there is a note that your system can send some information to Apple about your browsing, and Apple can send back recommendations for similar songs and videos. You have the option of turning this feature on or off. Which, of course, is the right way to handle the situation.
Military opinion piece
Nothing I can say would add to this article. Read it and see commentary on recent criticisms of former politically active vets from James Webb, Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan and a Marine platoon and company commander in Vietnam.
Bush’s illegal eavesdropping leads nowhere?
Current indications are that the wiretapping which should lead to the removal of the current president were of little value. And this isn’t just the case according to the liberal media. This conclusion comes from the people performing these illegal eavesdropping measures. So, we as a nation have a president who is willfully, very intentionally, and arrogantly ignoring laws put in place to protect American’s rights so he can gather nearly no useful information? Wow, he continues to show himself a bad president in my eyes.