Nightly Open Thread
Your remote is under the couch cushion
It. Is. Science!
Latest “Most Annoying Game Ever”
Seriously, if I see or hear anyone playing this on the train home, I’mma lean over and start making the opposite sound effect to the one he is. Or, y’know, something.
Sad? Lonely? Single? Male? There’s a (Facebook) app for that
Not free, mind you. Just saying. Which, really, is kind of the final injustice for the target audience of this app. They can’t get a girl, but are too proud (or too ashamed) to pay for female companionship “in real life” (as it were)…so here’s an app where they can pay for virtual female companionship instead, in the form of a long-distance Facebook relationship.
That’s like…I can’t even…I mean…how do you…gah!
Honestly, I think Switched was just looking for an excuse to post a photo of a possibly topless Miranda Kerr.
BlackBerry PlayBook: explain yourself!
I don’t get you, PlayBook. You’re supposed to be this genius idea, a tablet revolution, and yet the iPad 2 has you beat in most respects. Sure, you look nice, but what can you do? You run QNX, an opreating system that is far too obscure and too late in the game to compete well in the modern tablet market. And how many apps even exist for it? None? Next to none?
So what do you do? You gain the ability to use Android apps too! But wait…you can’t run them natively; you run them in an emulator that they have to be specially re-compiled for! And you don’t support apps built for Android 3.0, which are tablet-friendly apps.
Why even run QNX at all, PlayBook? Why not just go Android, and do it better than anybody else on the market? What are your makers thinking? Explain yourself!
Sign up for the BufferZone beta; test out app sandboxing for 64-bit Windows
Sandboxing is a grand little security concept and a great way to make your Windows experience — especially your internet browsing experience — just that much more secure. It’s good, solid protection against malware and virii.
In other words, YouTube’s Create site brings together all the major “make your own animated video online” services together in one convenient hub, enabling you to quickly throw together content and add it to your YouTube channel.
Because that’s what you always wanted, right?
Tonight’s post brought to you by John and Ringo:
In response to good humor:
http://www.eightvirtues.com/music/Favorites/5%20-%20Unsorted/Exile/Track%2025.wav
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmPNIRguxt0
All fun aside, I have some news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEUPcMbV9rE
Awesome, no? =) Full screen rotation is now working. I’ve retracted the tile grid a bit for the video so you can see how it draws itself. Updates may be found weekly here:
http://www.eightvirtues.com/sanctimonia/progress/
More news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teuicb0hHfc
An early example of the character creation process, whereby you may choose your facial features. Currently there are only two heads, two heads of hair, three eyes, two noses, two mouths. Once there are dozens of each, there will be thousands of combinations.
Cool looking stuff, Sanct!
That Facebook app reminds me of this gaming service I heard about last year where you pay to play games (I think Xbox 360 games) with a random gamer chick from around the world. It might have been an April fools thing though, or at least I hope it was lest I be even more ashamed to call myself a gamer.