Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.
Blog Archives
[This is HUGE news][link]. [Andy][andy] notes [Eurogamer’s estimates][euro]: $10 billion dollars amongst 1 million workers.
[link]: http://english.mofcom.gov.cn/aarticle/newsrelease/commonnews/200906/20090606364208.html “Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China”
[euro]: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/gold-trading-exposed-the-sellers-article “Eurogamer Article”
[andy]: http://waxy.org/links “Waxy links”
[“helping you implement html5 today.”][link]
[link]: http://html5doctor.com/ “html5doctor, helping you implement html5 today”
[Benjamin White is offering stitched Haggle Man buttons for everyone who sends him the receipt for their copy of Retro Game Challenge][link]. It is NOT the best game I’ve ever played, but it’s one that has given me loads of fun for a pretty small price.
If Game Center CX 2 doesn’t get localized, it will be a real shame.
[link]: http://sorrytown.us/article/a-retro-game-challenge-challenge “Sorry Town, USA · A Retro Game Challenge challenge”
[The two leading teams BellKor in BigChaos and Pragmatic Theory combined their talents to push over the 10% finish line][link]. $1 million split 7 ways still sounds pretty damn good. Netflix also allows the winners to sell their algorithms to anyone else they like.
As [Shawn Medero points out][medero], the other teams have 30 days in which to submit their solutions, as well.
[link]: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/06/winning-teams-join-to-qualify-for-1-million-netflix-prize/ “Winning Teams Join to Qualify for $1 Million Netflix Prize | Epicenter | Wired.com”
[medero]: http://twitter.com/soypunk/status/2351728204 “Shawn’s message”
[In what can only be described as a historical reenactment of a Street Fighter bonus stage][link].
[link]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n_9Nd9bhco “YouTube – Real Street Fighter Wannabe”
[Given their size, It is simply impossible that someone at Microsoft didn’t know about this][link]. The only question is how deep into the process were they, and how many people were afraid to speak or were told to sit down and shut up.
[link]: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/06/kayak-bing/ “Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! – Update | Epicenter | Wired.com”
[Consolidates and optimizes CSS in a way which I’ve not seen before][link]. Which is cool, but it would be nice if it could convert it BACK so humans could read/edit it easily. Check the examples, you will be glad you did. Hey, it does do that.
via [simplebits][via].
[link]: http://lesscss.org/ “LESS – Leaner CSS”
[via]: http://simplebits.com/notebook/2009/06/25/lesscss.html “Simplebits post on LESS”
As my friend Kate Dickson says, “[ooooh, which X-Men have snogged each other?][link]”
[link]: http://www.uncannyxmen.net/images/article/relationship/relationshipmapv1.htm “relationshipmapv1”
[Me too, buddy][link].
[link]: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/23/obama-admits-to-smoking-on-occasion/ “CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive – Obama admits to smoking on occasion « – Blogs from CNN.com”
