August 2009
TriDefense v0.9.3 available in the App Store now! →
TriDefense v0.9.3 has just been approved and is now available for download in the App Store.
This is a minor release, including a few bug fixes. This was the last update for the prerelease 0.9 version. The next release will be the final 1.0 version of the game, which we’ll be submitting for approval by the end of this week!
What changed in v0.9.3? Here’s the list:
fixed a random crash in the...
Bob Dylan Mistakenly Picked Up By New Jersey... →
meanwhile…
Neil Young Covertly Helps the Homeless
Bob Dylan to Donate Holiday Album Royalties to Charity
and other offbeat music news via TwentyFourBit who you must follow now, in case you still don’t…
The Leonard Cohen Files →
—via youroldarchenemycatwoman
“In the days after September 11th, Teddy made it a point to personally call each...”
– Barack Obama’s remarks at Sen. Ted Kennedy’s funeral. (via soupsoup: rillawafers:apsies)
The Smiths - “Rubber Ring”
misterpeace sez:This...
Unasur summit ends with commitment to peace →
Xinhua News
(Bariloche - Argentina) The Union of South American Nations (Unasur) Extraordinary Summit ended here Friday with a commitment to respect each other’s territorial integrity and strengthen peace in the region.
Leaders from the 12 member states signed a declaration promising to “abstain from using threats or force against the territorial integrity of other states from the...
behaviourism and Santa Claus
tristn sez:
It’s not like the phonological argument against behaviorism is hard to make; only a small amount of introspection is necessary. But the revelatory part is that the point was finally made explicit: The very basis of our scientific methodology is an argument against behaviorism. Analogy: Shopping for Christmas presents is the best and only method to get presents for other people, and...
Microsoft's secret 'screw Google' meetings in D.C. →
by Sam Gustin, DailyFinance
Microsoft’s chief Washington lobbyist has been convening regular meetings attended by the company’s outside consultants that have become known by some beltway insiders as “screw Google” meetings, DailyFinance has learned. The meetings are part of an ongoing campaign by Microsoft (MSFT), other Google (GOOG) opponents, and hired third parties to...
WatchImmigrants’ Champion: Juan Gonzalez on Ted Kennedy’s Support for Cesar Chavez and Migrant Workers
democracynow.org
UK Wants to Zap File-Sharers →
by Liz Gannes, NewTeeVee. ht Groklaw
It seems the British government is going loony for anti-piracy rhetoric from the likes of U2 and David Geffen. Legislation proposed in the UK today would allow government ministers to cut off Internet access to persistent file-sharers.
vruz: achtung filesharer! it’s the ministry of new media with a little help from bono and friends. a great...
politics rant intermission
I’m apalled by the lack of balls and self-defeatism of a certain faction of democrat politicians. The extremist faction of republicans (apparently the majority within the republican party) is a really disgusting crowd, but you can’t blame them for not knowing what they want and doing everything and anything to get it done. (save their many outstanding moments of illegality and moral...
“We are never persuaded by anything but love. Only love and friendship make us...”
– Mills off on a tangent in regards to this fascinating post (via kateoplis:danielholter)
Microsoft in web photo racism row →
via BBC News
Software giant Microsoft has apologised for editing a photo to change a black man’s head to that of a white man.
vruz: as if you needed yet another reason not to buy crap from them.
“i’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists - neither takes life as...”
– Stanley Kubrick (via ryanedwardmiller)
Antonin Artaud / Extrait de Les nouvelles...
Keep On Rockin In The Free World - Neil Young
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“Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively...”
– WSJ Sightings: New-Media Crisis of 1949 (via bliptvad :evangotlib :mikehudack + msg: whitneymcn sez: definitely provides perspective
vruz: insufficient information to compute anything of relevance. to make a pears to pears comparison we are still missing data… how much money have we...
THE KIDS IN THE HALL RETURN! →
—via whiskeyandgoatsmilk:nickmaynard:
Fifteen years after The Kids in the Hall aired on CBC Television, the five original members of the Canadian sketch comedy team have reassembled in North Bay, Ont., to shoot an eight-part TV series.
Death Comes to Town will premiere on CBC in January.
The series is about a killing spree in a small town and the trial that follows. It opens with the...
