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Start cursing me now
From the maker of the Grow series, some of my favorite puzzle games ever, comes Dwarf Complete! I may or may not have stayed up all night trying to complete it, and I only needed hints from the web twice! Woot!
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Namespace exploration
I’ve been enjoying all sorts of stuff from Infodoodads this week but this one is probably the most interesting to a broad audience: Graphically explore the popularity of baby names over time with real census data.
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Gah! My brain!
In a company newsletter this morning was a mention of the following book, whose title is causing pain that I must share: Naming Elephants: How to Surface Undiscussables for Greater Organizational Success
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Let’s make a deal
I had an excellent evening playing games with Shaun and Scott where we played “I’m the Boss” by Face 2 Face Games for the first time. We only had time to play through it once but it was incredibly fun. It seems to be an extremely well balanced game at this point, though it’s hard to say for sure after only one session. Very highly recommended.
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Friendly voting
A friend of mine from work has entered the Disney Dream “Job” contest for the “Honorary Jungle Cruise Skipper”. Go vote!
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It’s a dessert topping…
My question is how they will work this “discovery” into the plot of Jurassic Park 4.
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Unfortunately obscure
Microsoft launched the I’m Initiative yesterday and I had trouble finding information about it this morning so I figured I would put up a link here to hopefully make it a bit easier for the next person. Google had slightly more relevant results than Microsoft’s own Live Search, which is actually beginning to be disturbingly common. It’s a really bad sign when Google is better at searching MSDN than anything that Microsoft offers.
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Hot and wet data
Because I’m a big geek, I find the results of the hardware survey performed by the Steam service to be absolutely fascinating. Seven people who responded to the survey play games with 8 processors/cores. 93.96% have DVD-ROM drives. I only wish that last statistic were true of the customers for the products that I work with. :-(
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Nifty maps
The Weather Channel has some really cool new interactive maps that overlay current weather information (including animation) on top of Microsoft Virtual Earth maps. Being able to dynamically change the map while the live radar and/or satellite information is being displayed is possibly one of the best uses I have seen yet for the new Ajax style map products.
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Entropic unit testing
You know a unit test that you’ve been trying to pass for a couple of hours is not going well when the desktop of your test rig ends up strewn with files named things like “bad.install.log”, “worse.install.log”, and “what.was.I.thinking.install.log”.