- Renaud Bédard explains how Fez’ Trixels work.
- Oh crap, Fez is being written in XNA. Unless they want to rewrite it (which has been known to happen to already successful games), that means no Wii port and no OS X port. Good thing Crossover Games is around, if they release a Windows version.
- A disgruntled Keith Lam removes the Konami code easter egg from ESPN.com, laments with odd phrasing. What’s an “internet [weblog]“? Are there other kinds of weblogs?
- Comedy Central’s locked down viewing full episodes of The Daily Show
outside USinside several “territories”. But only full episodes. Everything else is still viewable as clips. Jon Stewart, seriously, you’re okay, but the next time you want to call people downloading episodes “thieves”, have someone remind you what kind of a Soup Nazi your industry is being. It’s not even about the ads; the full episodes showed ads between segments as well, and when I did get ads they were identical. And if I minded the ads, I’d gladly download it from iTunes if I could. - Channel 9’s interviews from the Lang.NET Symposium, published this week, are altogether amazing. Gilad Bracha and his Newspeak makes a strong showing; his (non-)battle with Anders Hejlsberg, C# designer is fascinating because the virtues of static typing are torn down ruthlessly and with periodical nods of agreement from Anders, and the Newspeak interview itself is interesting because it casts a light on what makes Newspeak different (no global state, you send contexts around, intentions for the language and platform to be revved regularly) without the papers and the heady lingo.
- I can’t believe I never linked to this because I just watched it for the fourth time: Sir Ken Robinson explains what’s wrong with schools. Hint: Course design and arrangement today implies that at the top of your aspiration pyramid, you should put University professor. It’s a little more multi-faceted than that, and the curriculum and teaching itself should reflect that.
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Just FYI, I can still see the Daily Show full episodes here in Japan (using Safari 4).
By Mason · 2009.05.04 18:09