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Ideas man and muse, cyberpunk & gadget fanatic, Photography & game enthusiast. Blogger & father.
Cooking Mama, The Unauthorized PETA Edition (via Justin Fleming)
Does this count as an expansion pack?
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have created their own version of the Cooking Mama game complete with cruesome cooking of body parts to attempt to put people off the consuming of animals.
www.peta.org/cooking-mama/index.asp
[Excerpts from my memoir, Nested Scrolls.]
I started getting mail from a younger writer in Texas called Bruce Sterling. He’d written glowing reviews of Spacetime Donuts and White Light in a weekly free newspaper in Austin—he was one of the very first critics to appreciate these books. Soon after this, Bruce began publishing a zine called Cheap Truth.
Bruce loved all things Soviet—it wasn’t that he was a Communist, it was more that he dug the parallel world aspect of a superpower totally different from America. He spoke of Cheap Truth as a samizdat publication, meaning that, rather than printing a lot of copies, he encouraged people to Xerox their copies and pass them from hand to hand.
Reading Bruce’s sporadic mailings of Cheap Truth, I learned there were a number of other disgruntled and radicalized new SF writers like me. The Cheap Truth rants were authored by people with pseudonyms like Sue Denim and Vincent Omniaveritas. I was too out of the loop to try and figure out who was who, but I took note of the authors being hyped: Bruce Sterling, Lew Shiner, William Gibson, Pat Cadigan, John Shirley, and Greg Bear. I couldn’t actually find books by many of these people in Lynchburg, Virginia, although Bruce did mail me a couple of his novels, including Involution Ocean, a delightful take on Moby Dick which features dopers on a sea of sand. This work has some transreal qualities, and I liked it lot, including its unexpectedly maniacal ending…it’s a shame the book is currently so hard to find…
3 days agoIt’s interesting that we are still encouraged to design websites for 800x600 resolution (excluding the mobile device world).
I still read and get told that sites still must be viewable on 800x600 resolution despite new computers with default views being way, way higher than this for years.
When was the last time a computer was purchased that had an 800x600 screen?
I know this backwards compatibility accounts for those with old machines, but I think it’s really a bit too old now. Such machines now probably wouldn’t even know want a dial-up modem was and site of an all singing, all dancing ‘internet’ would probably give it a heart attack.
The reason this has come up is that I have just checked some stats from a website which show that out of 1,436,135 visitors, 4.46% were 800x600. Most visitors were 1024x768 (41.09%) or HIGHER.
1. 1024x768 - 41.09%
2. 1280x800 - 18.84%
3. 1280x1024 - 15.60%
4. 1440x900 - 6.29%
5. 800x600 - 4.46%
6. 1680x1050 - 3.81%
7. 1152x864 - 2.68%
8. 1280x768 - 1.49%
9. 1920x1200 - 1.22%
10. 1280x960 - 0.85%
DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X…
DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games…
You can “re-live” the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the old classics that don’t run on your new computer!
DOSBox is totally free of charge and OpenSource.
Think Elite, Doom, Tie-Fighter!!
3 weeks agoI’ve just found that the Guardian newspaper are the first UK paper to have switched their RSS feeds to full text.
This is quite a big thing really as it means that you can finally sync your portable device and take full news articles away with you. Until now, I always found subscribing to RSS feeds largely pointless as you often only got the RSS teasers and still needed an internet connection to read anything meaningful.
Well done Guardian, if word gets out about this, I’m sure it will increase the numbers of readers.
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3 weeks ago
I’m not sure of the reason for this, but you’ll probably agree that nobody needs a reason to labour away for the sake of producing various artworks of Robocop riding a unicorn.
This kind of thing just is the internet all over.
Robocop on a unicorn (via Olav Rokne)
3 weeks agoI live and work in Northampton, UK with my wife and two kids.
My work status fluctuates somewhere between chaotically overworked and comfortably freelance. I am however, always available for interesting new projects.
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