Programming, motherf**ker

…do you speak it?

Rest in peace, Elizabeth Taylor

The oft-married star of far too many movies to list here passed away last night due to complications from heart failure.

Play Katamari Damacy with any website

Just install the little bookmarklet and click it to have some fun. It should work just fine with Aiera, thanks to the magic of CSS, Canvas, and jQuery.

Protect your laptop with Prey

I might have talked about this software before, but whatever…it’s pretty cool, and I’d recommend it to anyone. In a nutshell, Prey is an open-source anti-theft solution for your Windows, Mac, or Linux PC (or Android device) that lets you retain a measure of control over your device and data even if someone else absconds with it.

Utah allows gold and silver coins to be used as legal tender

And note that the coins won’t be considered tender according to their face value, but according to their actual worth by weight of precious metal. Gold and silver transactions are, furthermore, exempted from the state’s capital gains tax.

For you fans of XtraNormal…

…there are at least two people in the world with Halloween costumes that you will envy.

Runic Games won’t be charging a subscription fee for their Torchlight MMO

Which presumably means that the Torchlight MMO will be a microtransaction-driven free-to-play game instead.

Which is, admittedly, a system I could see working in Torchlight’s case; Runic could give players the option of either spending hours grinding in the (admittedly quite fun) dungeons in order to find loot, or of paying a small charge (the iTunes $0.99-for-almost-everything model comes to mind here) to buy an item that’s further up the loot scale.

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I still think Mass Effect borrowed some of its spaceship concepts from this book.