Jim

Whoa, hairless bears! They're secretly elephants. - Jim

'The first part of their theory is that we really only get about 2 hours of seriously focused, amazing-quality work per day--if we're lucky. Maybe you can get 2.5 or 3 sometimes, but that's pushing it.' - Jim

Freakin' sweet. - Jim

'Now with the legal might of no less than Electronic Arts behind them (who recently filed this scathing suit against Edge Games after Langdell seemed to be targeting EA's Mirror's Edge, using much of the evidence gathered by the indies), and with Edge Games now having successfully convinced Apple to remove Killer Edge Racing from the App Store, the indie community has served its latest sardonic volley against Langdell, rallying together to show support for 'the fallen' by incorporating the name into their own games.' - Jim

'After a Microsoft official was quoted as saying that the "look and feel" of Windows 7 was inspired by Mac OS X, Apple's rival to the north has officially retracted the statement.' Whoops. - Jim

'Previous exploits like iKee just changed the lockscreen background but after injection, this new malware copies private data, such as contacts, e-mail, contacts, SMSs, calendars, photos, music files, videos, which it then sends back to the source machine.' - Jim

Just how insane is the Washington Times? "The Washington Times has to take responsibility for people going to hell in America." - Jim

'Your principal told me that you wrote “Pimple Daddy G” on your test...' - Jim

Whoa, I remember this being seriously cool. Don't trust kids' judgment on anything! - Jim

Closure doesn't seem quite as tight as the rest of the Google libraries. 'I was expecting excellent ideas, new killer techniques unknown for everybody else, what I have found is "yet another toolkit".' - Jim

'ASIHTTPRequest is an easy to use wrapper around the CFNetwork API that makes some of the more tedious aspects of communicating with web servers easier. It is written in Objective-C and works in both Mac OS X and iPhone applications.' - Jim

'If you listen to Jordan Breen and I talk about what makes Fedor who he is (accolades, foibles and all) from MMA Nation this past Saturday, we discussed that one of the hallmarks of Fedor's remarkable career is his perseverance. It's not that Fedor has some otherworldly ability to never be hit, never be stumbled, never be challenged. In fact, it's quite the opposite. He is often challenged or hurt or put in very compromising positions. He can be cut, rocked, controlled, damaged, scored on. In a very real sense, Fedor is profoundly human and Brett Rogers is hardly the first opponent to discover this. But that humanity is precisely what gives Fedor his utter remarkability. In a fragile human world and in a game as punishing and unforgiving as MMA, Fedor both succumbs to the frailties of his mortal flesh while always rising above them. Fedor is not perfect; he is just exceptional at never letting his imperfections get the best of him.' - Jim

'A typical scam: users are offered in game currency in exchange for filling out an IQ survey. Four simple questions are asked. The answers are irrelevant. When the user gets to the last question they are told their results will be text messaged to them. They are asked to enter in their mobile phone number, and are texted a pin code to enter on the quiz. Once they’ve done that, they’ve just subscribed to a $9.99/month subscription. Tatto Media is the company at the very end of the line on most mobile scams, and they flow it up through Offerpal, SuperRewards and others to the game developers.' - Jim

Rather nifty. Gonna wait for the Mac build, though. - Jim

'“I remember, every season, multiple occasions where I’d hit someone so hard that my eyes went cross-eyed, and they wouldn’t come uncrossed for a full series of plays. You are just out there, trying to hit the guy in the middle, because there are three of them. You don’t remember much. There are the cases where you hit a guy and you’d get into a collision where everything goes off. You’re dazed. And there are the others where you are involved in a big, long drive. You start on your own five-yard line, and drive all the way down the field—fifteen, eighteen plays in a row sometimes. Every play: collision, collision, collision. By the time you get to the other end of the field, you’re seeing spots. You feel like you are going to black out. Literally, these white explosions—boom, boom, boom—lights getting dimmer and brighter, dimmer and brighter.' - Jim

'One obvious question here is why do we add the first argument at index 2. The first argument should be index 0, right? Here's the answer: Indices 0 and 1 indicate the hidden arguments self and _cmd, respectively...' - Jim

'Because bar none, Korea has been the most successful America-led nation building attempt in history. For the last 100 years, America has invaded, occupied and established governments in a number of different countries, including Germany, Japan, the Philippines, Iraq, etc.' - Jim

Most of Karo Parisyan's UFC fights. If you've wondered what the big deal was with this guy, you should see some of his fights before his mental illness troubles. - Jim

I heard about The New Republic getting centrist, but I didn't see it myself: '"It may take years, or even decades, for Democrats to relearn the lessons we thought, naively, they had learned for good under Clinton. But one day, Joe Lieberman's warnings in this campaign will look prophetic. And the principles he has espoused will once again guide the Democratic Party. It will be the work of this magazine, to whatever small degree possible, to hasten that day," ' - Jim

Rather elegant, especially the interpolation touch. I'm not sure I'll be writing anything that won't finish doing everything it needs to before each update. Then again, you never know. - Jim

Apparently, Avalon Hill made computer games! With great cover art. I like this one especially: http://is.gd/4H5EV - Jim

The mental conditioning of football players, fighting dogs, and child prostitutes. - Jim

Oh, man - the government helping poor people get access to phones?! Welfare recipients no less? The world is ending! Poor people shouldn't have phones! They should be getting jobs by pounding the pavement and doing phone interviews via bootstrap. - Jim

All of the labyrinths in Zelda can be fit into one big rectangle. Probably coincidence, but neat-looking, anyway. - Jim