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Like quite a lot of other people, I allow myself to be scarred by Second Life every now and again. Let me tell you, there is only so many times that you can see someone shagging a life size cat, and still sleep at night.
My name is "So Sao", and I normally wonder about checking out the various things that Warren Ellis talks about in his excellent Secondlife Sketches. I think it would be better if my computer was slightly quicker (well, the graphic card at least) along with my dire 512 ADSL connection. Still... there are things worth taking a look at.
http://www.consumating.com/profiles/Kitten
I have a profile there, and it is funny. Mostly because consuming is a bit fucking stupid, innit?
I'm sure that, like myspace, I'll start out trolling about because I hate the idea, and then I'll get into it (never too seriously - due to the hate), and then I'll forget it.
Ah.
GAH!
Now I've read quite a bit about Geotagging, bu always managed to ignore it.
Until it has appeared on flickr.
I haven't played about in flickr for AGES. It's changed quite a bit. This geotagging thing may have been there for a long, long time. Whatever the case, I am a sucker for metadata stuff, and now I'll be up for night after night tagging my 13k photos.
Damn you flickr.
See the updated flickr stuff here.
I spent a considerable amount of time figuring out how to get my phone to receive my emails. Now that I have done this I have come to the following conclusions:
1 - It is slow
2 - It is annoying
3 - My phone is shit.
Let's explore this.
1 - It is slow
This doesn't bother me that much. It's like a retro adventure into the 28.8-56.6 days. When getting an email was an exciting, physical experience because those little meters that showed the progress meant something (like weather or not you could squeeze in another episode of the X-Files).
2 - It is annoying
This isn't the phones fault. This is the fault of those pricks that like to offer me viagra and porn via email. When your spanking money, and time, on downloading these emails... it does get a little tedious.
3 - My phone is shit
My phone is a piece of crap that takes hors to write an email if it is truncating anything. I'm going to stop cutting anything now, and just shell out the money for sending the extra text because it takes too fucking long to type an email.
I guess I'm sorta 50/50 about the email phone thing. I think my phone is a bit crap, so I'm not going to slate the service yet. I love my work blackberry, so I could grow to love this. I think I just need to buy a smartphone and be done with it.
Now both Matt and Boing Boing told me about this, but if you go to http://www.babyrockrecords.com/web/page.asp you can hear the lullaby version of "No Surprises" by Radiohead. It's awesome.
This will also show up in my link post later,
I am more of a del.icious man now.
big dump o' links coming today-ish. Then every day, brought to you by your friendly neighborhood, uh, link tagging/storing/typeplace.
I am more of a del.icious man now.
big dump o' links coming today-ish. Then every day, brought to you by your friendly neighborhood, uh, link tagging/storing/typeplace.
--UPDATE--
If I've set it up correctly, it'll happen at about midday every day, so the first one will be tomorrow!
I found this in my inbox this morning.
This is what makes me excited.
No kidding.
--UPDATE--
This has been removed from a lot of places, so *shhh*.
For those of you who asked... it's Bumblebee from the Transformers.
If you're not watching Deadwood, you should be. I certainly am, and so I'm quite interested in this -
Found here:
Pull up a chair for Deadwood-themed poker:
Deadwood, HBO's stellar, curse-infused western, is returning with their third-season and, as a promotion, they've enlisted Fuel Games to create a browser-based poker game called Dead Man's Hand. As Deadwood is to westerns, Dead Man's Hand is to poker games. The developers describe it thusly:
"Dead Man's Hand is a first-person 3D Texas Hold'em game that allows you to sit down at the table with the characters from the show: Al Swearengen, E.B. Farum and Trixie. But poker with Al Swearengen is a dangerous game, and he's a less-than-graceful loser. You'll need more than luck to get out of the game alive.
"Just like real poker, you can raise, fold, call or pull out your six shooter and start shooting bottles, lamps and the people you're playing against. Just be careful who you point your gun at, lest you end up downing a shot of hot lead."
As much as I want to be called a c*cksucker by Swearengen, I can't get the durned thing to run. The game requires the Virtools plugin to run and Intel Mac owners will need to run a PowerPC-compiled browser under Rosetta; Universal binary browsers don't work. I'll keep tinkering. In the meantime, anyone else sating their Deadwood-desires with Dead Man's Hand?
[Via Wonderland]
Read - I hardly know her! (Fuel Games Blog)
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I guess I could also be interested because my flatmate has got me hooked on poker and stuff. I just wish I could count, and pairs... man that looks a little close to snap for my liking.