News-o-matic
August 20, 2006
- My new work laptop is rather super, but it does have a Windows Key. This is fine for normal desktopping, but it can be lethal for gaming, where an errant twitch can send your game thrashing to the desktop at precisely the wrong moment. The great thing is that it was quite easy with Google's help to find a page that disables the evil Windows Key. It even has registry entries to re-enable it if you decide that you really need it.
- I played through F.E.A.R. back in Canada, and it was pretty damn great. There's an expansion in the works, and to promote that, Monolith have released the multiplayer component of the original game as F.E.A.R. combat for a free download. From all reports it's a very fast and brutal game, reminiscent of Quake 1, with some badass weapons that can be super nasty in the hands of a skilled player. Probably worth a few runs for the price, though.
- Snakes on a Plane has finally hit cinemas around the world, and some clever frood has put together a Snakes On A Plane Audience Participation Script. This is akin to the scripts used for stuff like Rocky Horror, where the audience yells stuff out and sings along with the show. Yelling out "Bitch!" after every one of Samuel L Jackson's lines works best in a large group of your friends, obviously.
- Writely is a funky AJAX word processing application that Scott and I just started playing with for a little side project of ours that we've got going. It looks nifty, and even supports collaborative authoring. It's been offline for a bit, but has just come back from its beauty sleep and is open to registrations. Who needs Microsoft Word, anyway?
- I saw a cool animation vs animator animation where a valiant stick man breaks free of the Flash development environment and fights the very animator that is manipulating him. Worth a watch.