After all these years this game still haunts me.

A new contender is up and running for your tech fix - Tested is the new site by Will Smith former MaximumPC editor. It’s a great place to get news, tips, and looks at the tech and gear in your life.

Tech and review sites are a dime a dozen on the ol internets. What separates them are the insights from the authors and contributors. Will has an uncanny sense for nailing things about the tech industry – plus his enthusiasm and attitude makes him the kind of guy you’d want to go get a beer with and geek out.

I also think we may be related, possibly separated at birth. The resemblance is a bit uncanny.

Last seen on the viralness of the treadmill video.  I thought the coordination was better than the song.

Here I think they nailed both, pleasantly. Same song, two different, cool videos.

The other is not embeddable but, I think slightly better.

There, now my blog has more recent comic book-relevant content than my friend’s comic book review blog (that has, in theory, multiple authors to contribute).

UPDATE YOU FOOLS, UPDATE!

Thank you SMBC for the ammo.

Somehow needs more Hellboy, but fun regardless.

I know it takes time, and Valve, you do good things, but… I need a good game dammit. How about you toss us a Portal 2 in the meantime?

On the upside, I suppose this means we’re getting Half-Life with a brand new engine and even more rad physics. Again, hard to complain about, other than it’s not here now, nor is there a date to look forward to. And if you’ve never played the Half-Life series? Well, you are missing out on a cornerstone of FPS gaming and good game story telling.

Game Informer depresses me here. At least Bioshock 2 is coming, despite it’s Fort-Knox-like DRM which will ensure it won’t work on half the computers it install on. Think they’d learn by now, I mean SecureROM is total shit way to do things.

The early 1990′s were exciting times for the web. Everything was new, exciting discoveries were just around the next click on the web ring, and making web pages was fun. HTML made coding easy because the language was simple. You could churn out a page complete with blinking text in no time. Awesome stuff, especially for people that weren’t quite as enamoured of Basic or C.

Once the Netscape and Microsoft browser wars really got into full swing things got complicated quickly with custom tags littering the battlefield. Then came really complicated bits like JavaScript, Flash, Java, and the list goes on.

Along the way HTML got butchered. The simple language for sharing documents and images became a stepping stone for bloated, ugly code and browser incompatibilities.

It’s been a long winding road for the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3). They are the standards organization that tries to look after things like HTML. Since just before 2000, they’ve been trying to rein things back in and bring the additional power that JavaScript, Flash, and other add-ons brought to the web back to a single standards based format. With HTML 5 it feels like things are very back on track.

The simplification of Doc Types and the addition of tags like <audio> and <video> that make embedding music and movies a snap is one short example. I was able to whip out a quick page with both mp3 files and home movies in minutes – moreover it worked seamlessly – without Flash, without Javascript or anything thing else to muck up the works or add unnecessary lines of code.

Easy, just like it used to be.

Want to try it for yourself? Check out this link on embedding some video.

It’s no wonder Google and Apple are on top of this and making sure their browsers are HTML 5 compliant. Lower processing overheads, faster load times and a richer browsing experience are their money-makers. All this also makes sense why Apple never pushed Flash onto the iPhone (though, perhaps, they were ahead a few too many steps).

I, for one, welcome our HTML 5 overlords!

Pictures are worth a thousand words or one LA Times article. I wonder when this exhibit will come to Baltimore?

So pleased with myself.

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