http://www.cineris.org/blog Musings on Electronics and Culture Mon, 12 May 2008 05:13:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the last week or two, before the whole fiasco with Electronic Arts revealing that it was deciding to install crapware and spyware on its customers' computers, Shamus was delving into "Real Time Strategy" games with posts on Starcraft and Sins of a Solar Empire. In this post, Shamus begins ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2008/05/11/real-time-hair-splitting/ It's been awhile since I've updated, so I figure I may as well give some sort of indication to what's going on behind the scenes (or not) here. About two, possibly three weeks ago now I updated to Wordpress 2.5. It was only shortly before that I'd upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2008/04/26/k0ed/ How long ago now was it that I swore off Battlestar Galactica? It's certainly taken them long enough to get back on the air with new episodes. So, now I've got to decide whether I'm actually going to bother with Battlestar Galactica again. Sure, it was a great show -- During ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2008/04/04/decision-time/ A few weeks ago I ran across a link to the following picture on Reddit... The headline being, "The aliens have landed." And I can't dispute that. Who gives the thumbs up to projects like these? Who thought it was a good idea to plop down what looks like a misshapen ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2008/03/30/alien-architecture/ The site layout is still "broken" in that images will expand beyond the main column. I've got a post sitting around here with some images that I'm considering posting, but it'll show up badly due to the way images are currently working. I'll probably hold off a few days and ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2008/03/23/commence-indifference/ I recently came across Photoshop Disasters. Although I'm no pro, I often enjoy looking at Photoshops from Fark, SomethingAwful, Worth1000, and various other websites. Photoshop Disasters aims to mock the worst of the worst when it comes to Photoshopped images. This one is a classic... This photo from Maxim is a neoclassic, ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2008/03/19/photoshop-disasters/ I noticed some clunky behavior of the blog today on the back end here, so I decided to go ahead and upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress. In the process this seems to have screwed up my theme, so working on getting everything functional again. For the time being ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2008/03/19/wordpress-update/ Sometime last week I ran across the following graph. I thought this was a little inaccurate, so I made a better one. ShareThis http://www.cineris.org/blog/2008/03/18/learning-curves/ As I've been following Shamus' posts lately on piracy in computer games, I was linked to this post by Brad Wardell of Stardock talking about piracy and the games industry in general. Since Stardock is primarily a vendor of software other than games, Brad talks about how he's learned from ... http://www.cineris.org/blog/2008/03/17/more-computer-myths/