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Spider-Man on Chat Rooms

by Joey deVilla on October 29, 2009

Spider-Man: "I get into costume and boom, I'm the snarky wise-guy. Anonymity's liberating. There should be rooms where people could go to chat using fake identities. They'd spend hours being jerks to each other."

This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

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Tonight on “The Hour”: Steve Ballmer and Snoop Dogg

by Joey deVilla on October 21, 2009

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Fo’shizzle my Ballizle: on tonight’s episode of CBC’s news show The Hour, “Strombo”’s interviewing an unlikely pair: the CEO of the company for whom I work, Steve Ballmer, and Snoop Dogg. Alas, they’re taping the segments separately, so there’s no chance of Ballmer and Snoop doing a rap duet called Win and Juice.

The Hour airs on CBC tonight at 11 p.m. Eastern.

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

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The Truth About Pac-Man

by Joey deVilla on October 19, 2009

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[Found via Certified Bullshit Technician.]

This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

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Mario Learns an Important Lesson

by Joey deVilla on October 17, 2009

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Photoshoppery of the Day

by Joey deVilla on September 19, 2009

I was 10 years old when Space Invaders came out, so this photo brings back happy memories:

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Social Software Venn Diagram

September 8, 2009
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Yeah, that’s about right:

And better yet, it’s available as a T-shirt!

[Found via Kevin Kelly.]

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Your First Warning: Vancouver, September 11 – 18

September 3, 2009
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I’m going to be in Vancouver from the afternoon of Friday, September 11th until the morning of Friday, September 18th. I’m there first and foremost to manage the “Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform” track of the TechDays conference, then to meet up with the local tech community, but also to enjoy the city I [...]

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One Possible Upside to the Disney-Marvel Team-Up

August 31, 2009
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Anthony Suarez suggested a possible upside to Disney’s purchase of Marvel: there’s potential for a really interesting sequel to the game Kingdom Hearts.

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Disney Buys Marvel

August 31, 2009
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My spider-sense is tingling, and not in a good way: Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment (yup, that Marvel, as in Spider-Man, the X-Men and so on) for $4 billion in stock, acquiring the rights to all their characters. Soon we’ll see the cast of High School Musical as the newest young mutants to join [...]

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Goin’ Retro!

August 14, 2009
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Two things we need to bring back into style: go-go boots and multi-coloured keyboards.

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N00b Boyfriend

August 11, 2009
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What happens when a girl from a l33t family brings a n00b boy home to meet her parents?

This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

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The Unofficial FutureRuby Guide to Toronto, Part 2: The FutureRuby Venues

July 5, 2009

Welcome to the second installment of The Unofficial FutureRuby Guide to Toronto! This is a series of articles aimed at showing out-of-town attendees of the upcoming FutureRuby conference around our fine city. (It’s useful even if you’re not planning on attending the conference).
In case you missed the previous installment, it’s here:

What’s That Smell?

You might [...]

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FailCamp: One Week Away!

July 2, 2009

If you were at last year’s FailCamp, you might remember the best story of FAIL of the evening, which involved warming up some “body lube” in the microwave oven for a little too long, after which hilarity ensued.
Here’s how Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs, the originators of FailCamp, describe their vision of the event:
We believe [...]

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The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

July 2, 2009

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever is a new puzzle site aimed at programmers in the same vein as web-based puzzle challenges such as notpron, Rankk and Python Challenge. Created by Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg, “TDPE” consists of a sequence of 30 web pages, each one with [...]

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Muscle March: Weirdest Videogame of 2009

May 18, 2009

I think we’ve got an early contender for the title of “Weirdest Videogame of 2009”: Muscle March for the Nintendo Wii. As if the game weren’t weird enough, the trailer below ramps up the weirdness by presenting it in that oh-so-Japanese style with epilepsy-inducing jump-cuts and a hyper-enthusiastic Japanese TV announcer:

[Found via Waxy.org.]

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