After a long hiatus, Ultima 7 is now available to purchase again, from Good Old Games. It includes all four…well, let’s call them “episodes”: The Black Gate, Forge of Virtue, Serpent Isle, and The Silver Seed. They can be played easily on modern systems (with a number of modern improvements to the experience, although with…
By Justin
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I’m not the first person by a long shot to say that the “good enough” is the enemy of the “at all”. I’m probably not the last to get around to believing it, either. One of these days, I probably will remember it. I’m a perfectionist. I hate doing things wrong, or doing things poorly.…
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The Apple iPad, like many apple products before it, has polarized people. Some people love it, some people hate it. Some people will use it everywhere, some people honestly can’t imagine a single use. As with many products before, I fall somewhere in the middle. On the plus side: It looks like a beautiful piece…
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So there’s this thing called an SSL certificate. Everyone (or at least the vast majority of anyone who is ever likely to read this) knows about SSL, or HTTPS, or at the very least the browser lock symbol. Another time I’ll talk about a bunch of nonsense regarding the details of SSL and some of…
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A few music and making-music links to start off the weekend. Water Music, generated using Perlin noise Boodler, a soundscape tool in Python sfxr, a utility to generate random retro-styled sound effects for video games Video game music remixes Remix an Information Society song or two Or remix a NIN song 100 songs under a…
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Over yonder, there’s a fantastic rendition of Star Wars IV: A New Hope – in sonnet form. It gives me a measure of peace to know that someone else did that, so I don’t have to learn to write sonnets.
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Merry Christmas. Hug your loved ones extra tight.
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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you started but did not finish. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we…
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A wonderful, but artificial, crustacean took a swing at an experimental new talking taxi meter, which had apparently malfunctioned and was discussing the breeding locations and nocturnal activities of sentient Q-tips. This was, of course, reported in the newspaper.