These boys have a place in the nerd hall of fame.
August 26th, 2009
The hottest nerd around
The Guild is a web series following the interactions between a group of players in an MMO. It has become extremely popular. Their new music video, Do You Want to Date My Avatar, has gone viral.
August 25th, 2009
A game worthy of you
If you haven’t heard by now, BioWare, the software company behind the best selling KOTOR series of games, is producing a Star Wars themed MMO.
The write staff behind the Total Nerd supports SWTOR Junkies, a fan site.
August 19th, 2009
Google and Life
Have you ever clicked the Life Images link on the images.google.com splash page?
This image was brought to my attention from kottke.org
(via google)
August 17th, 2009
Mythos Lives!
About a year ago, there was a quiet rumbling within the underground internet MMO scene. Mythos was in closed betal; yours truely had access to it. In more ways than one, this game was what Diablo 3 should have been – or will be.
Well, MYTHOS IS BACK! According to Wikipedia, Mythos (the engine behind Hellgate: London) has been picked up by the Koreans. If they continue the trend, this will be one heck of a game.
You can head over to Mythos.com and sign up for the closed beta. GG anyone?
August 16th, 2009
More on the Shatner war…
The Bloggess‘ war on William Shatner continues.
Here is an image of the tweets supporting her cause. Could William Shatner be the next Chuck Norris?
August 16th, 2009
NASA is broke; can we fix it?
In this Reuters Article, a recent NASA panel has concluded that they (NASA) will not be ble to put a man on the moon by 2020. Somewhere, sometime, somebody proposed this date. I don’t even know who did. That in itself, I think, shows you the current state of the space program.
Are these events indicative of something more, I wonder? Has mankind lost the edge for exploration? Who’s to blame?
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August 16th, 2009
And District 9 has 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.com
I believe this is a new record.
Update: It appears the haters have shown up.
August 16th, 2009
More on District 9
Here is more on District 9. Did you know – this was supposed to be the Halo movie by Peter Jackson.
I need to start off by saying, if you don’t appreciate open-to-interpretation or non-A-list movies. You may very well hate this movie. The movie plays like a good book, so if you don’t like paying attention, reading, or thought-provocation, again…you may hate this movie. And most of the complaints on OT have very well been that…”Oh I didn’t like the story!”
The movie starts out slow, I will admit. You don’t have any clue where it’s going or what it’s going to be about. And to be honest, every idea you get from the commercials, become very minor aspects. At the 45-minute point, I will admit, I was like , this is becoming tedious and boring, just another 7/10 above-average scifi flick.
However, it truly does get better from there. I remember reading one of my favorite books, and how it got to the point where I couldn’t put it down until the last page. You just had to keep reading to see what was going to happen. The last half of the movie is EXACTLY like that. There aren’t any pee-break spots in the second half. And every minute of it is fantastic.
For his first movie, Blomkamp did an AMAZING job. You truly were torn between what side to take (human or alien). This is one of those movies where you will actually react in-real-life to what happened on screen.
I really cannot enough. However, while fantastic, at the same time, I can also say, while it’s a treat to see this movie on the big screen. You won’t miss any of the feeling by waiting for it on Blu-Ray. No telesync is going to do this movie justice though.
Oh and the nerd part of me loved how most of the vehicles and pistols looked like stuff they had ready to use for the Halo movie (which is what this movie was originally supposed to be).
(via offtopic)
August 16th, 2009
An Essay for Programming Students
Have you ever wanted to delv into the fabulous world of computer programming? Do you desire the chance to write 1,000 lines of code with the hopes of one day never working again and being surrounded by beautiful women? This article is a great place to start.
One of the more common questions here is about which language to learn; even which implementation of which language.
If I interviewed someone who told me they knew language Z, but didn’t know language R too well, I wouldn’t mind. We could have the interview in language Z. But I’d press them a little bit about what they thought of language R. They should know at least a little about it; what it is good for, what it’s not good for, and so on. If they start ranting about how it was invented by an evil scientist who worked at a company that everyone hates, or that it “just sucks”, or other such nonsense, I can’t imagine the interview would last very long.
A professional developer isn’t concerned with language; they’re even less concerned with style in a particular language. They’re able to pick up a language pretty rapidly, since it’s just a different way to express the ideas they should already be very familiar with. As they gain practice, they’ll get better and more fluent. But if they spend the first couple of weeks learning different things, that’s no big deal.