Monthly Archives: November 2007

Recently the release of Portal has energized discussions of game mechanics and “alternative” (Non FPS, RTS, MMO style games). In this vein, I came across a video for a game called Crayon Physics, by Kloonigames. From what I’ve seen it … Continued

I found myself in need of some data serialization methods this evening and checked out Yaml which is billed as an “easy” way of saving an object (say a query result) and then later re-constituting that information back into something … Continued

Great article about FusionOne on FoundRead today about how FusionOne refocused their software offerings into a profitable company. The lessons: Lesson 1: Identify the “fatal flawâ€? Lesson 2: Return to a customer philosophy Lesson 3: Cut out customization and instead … Continued

Darren has picked up on the study about how wine drinkers identifying a “cheap” wine is an expensive vintage by manipulating the non-flavor characteristics (color: even to the extreme of dying a white wine red, bottle shape, presentation, etc.) Now, … Continued

Tim O’Reilly is pondering why the Italian people have such different energy use patterns than the US (they don’t have lighting everywhere to declare that streets are safe, etc.) I wonder what (if any effect) that the US media obsession … Continued