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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review

With 17 pages detailing many of the technical achievements of the newest (and greatest?) Macintosh OS, MacOS X 10.5, Ars writer John Siracusa has once again explained the various underpinnings of my favorite Operating System. By illuminating the esoteric but important workings behind Spotlight, Core Animation and the future of the macintosh (macintosh macintosh macintosh.)

(Via ArsTechnica.)

Wikipedia is an amusing little site, with choice quotes like this one

“When two trains approach each other at a crossing, both shall come to a full stop and neither shall start up again until the other has gone”

under Deadlock

Very recently Epic, the makers of Gears of War most recently, have released a trailer for the single player component of Unreal Tournament III (Rise of the Juicers). A few things jump to mind having seen it; 1) if it weren’t for Bioshock there’d be no evidence the Unreal Engine 3 could do human modeling except big tree men of Gears of War, 2) The same great writing experts have been hard at work making trashy one liners and dialog gamers will be making fun of throughout the entire game, seeping into the multiplayer as well.

This isn’t a slight against the game, fuck no I’ve been playing UT for a long time. I remember once I took heather on a “date” to our local gamer cafe and utterly defeated her with the ripper, a spinning razor-blade dispenser of doom. Needless to say, I was young and she was rather upset being the sole target of my headshots. Good times, good times.

Because I love a challenge, I’m playing around with Vista. Because this’ll be the “system of the future” its important you all know what you’re going to get into from a “I hate this but have no choice” perspective.
Expect whining.
Combine this with my continual treatises on gamers, you can see why I’m going to be quiet for a week or so.
Also I gotta keep an eye on my kitten, he gets his shots today.
Painful

While some of you may have never read Calvin & Hobbes, most of you will recognize the authors name, and will be amused by this old comic from his college days, we can thank Boing Boing for finding this site.

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A Weighted Companion Cube of your very own:: I mused earlier that it’d be downright immoral if Valve didn’t release a cubical goodie in the shape of everyones favorite kubos, the weighted companion cube. I wasn’t alone in this opinion, and Gabe Newel, the gentle person with a strong opinion (and the wallet to back it up) has let it be known that there will be a plushy version available by the holidays

While not a hard and dangerous object, (after all a plush can only cause so much brain damage), it will certainly be a stocking stuffer for any gamer. Jesus if 30% of the parent-consumers bought it for their children, there would be an exponential increase in remembered mothers and fathers days, or at least there’d be peace and goodwill on this earth.

we can hope.

(found at destructoid.com.)

Given my own disposition to call the Orange Box the “Orange (road cone) box,” it’s particularly funny that a player in Halo 3 should be killed by one.

Of course, it has alot to do with the fact I’ve played more Team Fortress 2, Portals and Half Life 2 than I have Halo 3 multiplayer, but then I’d be being snarky.

Viva la Snark!