Virtual Thought

Okay, seriously Sean… Jesus vs. Trebuchet is cool… but did you have to tag it with trebuchet?

You can’t stress Technorati like that. It’s high strung these days, looking a little frayed around the edges.

This is badass!

Just for John, here it is:

It seems that all manner of whacked-out conspiracies were on display on digg.com today.

Among them was this article that asked, Were these brutal beatings inspired by video games? The article’s answer can be found in the last sentence:

Man’s inhumanity to man and his compulsion to pick up a blunt weapon have been around since caveman days. Given the recent tragedy, is the presence of baseball bat weapons in games like the Grand Theft Auto series and The Warriors an instance of art imitating life, or life imitating art?

That says, “No,” to me. “No, video games do not make people kill other people.”

However, as you can see in the first comment after the story, some flaming idiots) do not agree. I can’t wait to see what this clueless loser) does next.

Saw a great image of the famous Bigfoot walk movie stabilized which is very cool. Makes me want to take those images, create a stretched version of the landscape that is entirely visible, and have Bigfoot walk across that. Hmm…

And read an interesting post about how the NSA finds us and what software they use. Very, very interesting…

This picture captures, quite beautifully, a bipartisan spirit of friendship and comraderie that is hard to fault. I salute you, Cheerleader for USC!

I have found the solution to loving my Mac but wanting to develop on a PC.

So apparently there’s this app called Synergy which lets one person sync two computers, each with their own monitor… so that someone (say, me) can effectively have one keyboard and one mouse, but two monitors and two computers. Dragging the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen of one system (Windows) will move the cursor onto the second system (Mac). Genius! There’s even a Synergy GUI for help setting it up on the Mac.

A forum post on the XBox 360 forums has a series of startling photographs and screen caps illustrating that a lot of work went into making PGR3 look like real life. If the photographs are real, and the screencaps are real, then… whoosh, Microsoft did a fantastic job!