A very cool small dungeon generator from watabou:
One Page dungeon
Category: LinkOfTheDay
Once a week I send out a random link, mostly just to make sure I don’t forget about this blog.
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LotD — one page dungeon
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“Back to the Mac”
Apparently, Apple has called a press conference for next week to discuss something Mac OS related.
It’s a mark of where we are that most of the buzz around this is:
- Will it be called “Lion”?
- Will it include FaceTime integration?
*sigh*.
My take: “Back to the Mac” sounds too much like “Back to my Mac” for it not to be cloud focused — particularly since they are just finishing up their massive new data center in NC. 😉
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Mini-Maker Faire coming to Ottawa
12 – 6PM
November 6th and 7th, 2010
Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave., Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2
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Brazil copyright law significantly better than Canada
I saw this link this morning, and I though I’d pass it on:
To me, the critical point is that (as it says in the article title) they do not allow “digital locks” to block your fair use rights. Just so everyone is aware, this is not true for the new Canadian copyright law that is currently being introduced.
(I know this is the kind of thing that we tweet, in this modern age, but I wanted to keep the link around for future reference (and I still like the “link of the day” concept).)
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How to read any document on your iPad
MacFixit has a nice little workflow for simplifying the task of getting a document onto your iPad for offline reading. It’s not surprising what’s going on — you just create a PDF and then copy it to iTunes to make it available in iBooks — but did you know it was trivial to add a “Save PDF to iTunes” menu item in the standard print dialog?
Easily save Web pages, documents in iTunes for use with iOS devices
(Link no longer works.)
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Classic arcade games aren’t.
At CES, Microsoft announced “Game Room for XBOX 360”, which is purported to “recreate the old school arcade experience for you (and your avatar)”.
(Image no longer available from Engadget)
For Pete’s sake people, can we please stop finding yet another way to re-deliver games that we got bored of twenty years ago. If we ever want the world at large to treat games like a valid art form, we’ve got to stop glorifying trivial gameplay and graphics so stupid-ugly that they can be implemented by emulating the whole bloody machine in JavaScript.
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E-book Readers
Here’s a quick link-of-the-day with MacWorld’s take on an a number of the currently available e-book readers:
Personally, I’ve tried all of the Sony’s, the Kindle 2, and a couple of other e-ink based ones. In all cases, I found the screen flash on page turns quite frustrating. Ken tells me that you get used to it, but for me the iPhone still bests all of the other devices, as long as you aren’t trying to read PDFs. (And that’s not just because I’ve always got it with me.)
What I really want is an Apple tablet with a Pixel Qi-like display.
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New post on my *other* blog.
In my guise of “Eclipse SDK lead”, I just posted a new entry on my (too seldom updated) Eclipse blog. For those that are interested, check out:
*sigh*. It seems the link to the blog from eclipse.org stopped working at some point. I *think* it just passed through to my blog on wordpress.com, so updated the link to point there.
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Swine Flu
(Interesting! The CBC links in this article no longer work, but as of this update, the ABC one still does.)
I hope we’ve all been taking this seriously, but in case you haven’t…
Swine Flu is in Ontario, we just haven’t gotten the tests back yet:
Ontario probes suspected swine flu cases amid pandemic fears
It’s not under control in Nova Scotia:
And for good measure, here’s a US link:
And just so you know, if the Mexico stats hold, it’s killing about 6.5% of the people who get it. So, wash your hands with soap and hot water, stay away from people who are coughing and sneezing, avoid crowds, and look around you: 1 out of every 20 people you know who catch it is going to die.