Irrsinn.net: taking joy in human unreason

Quasi-daily linkage

A new “onload” scheme - Easy! Reader - This is a really clever way to avoid having page-specific JavaScript files (which I've done on larger projects). Tomorrow’s Women, Tomorrow’s World - A more British look at the decline of women in the IT industry. Clients From Hell : Of course I want ...

Jack move, fool!

Courtesy of G, I bring you "Pondering Indie Spirit: Derek Yu Speaks". Skip the article and go to the comments. (That's mean, I know, but I leave the indie game drooling to G. I'm sure Yu is at least a moderately cool guy.) Read the first comment. ...

Left for Dead (2)? Maybe left behind

Played a quick game of the L4D2 demo last night with Greg. I can't say I was really impressed. I liked the new characters and the melee abilities (geetar!)... and the magnum pistol... But the other weapons didn't stand out and the new monsters weren't memorable. I'll give ...

Left 4 Dead — a gateway drug?

I seem to find an FPS that I enjoy every few years. First, there was Doom 2. Subsequent games within my field of view (Quake (2), Halo) were too complicated for me in their control schemes. Crouching, jumping, aiming. Doom 2 had none of these, was ...

Custom Left 4 Dead map: Zelda

With the release of the Left 4 Dead campaign bundler thing last week, I hunted around yesterday for compiled user-made campaigns... and found not a single complete one in the VPK format. Folks had levels as separate files that sort of made campaigns, but I don't much feel like ...

Awesome trumpets: no longer an oxymoron

Curt Ramm played with They Might Be Giants in Wednesday and last Friday's shows, and I'll admit, he's given me more than a little crush on the trumpet. I'm sure Greg will be jealous. I can't find much in terms of videos of him except for Bruce Springsteen ...

Quasi-daily linkage

10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit - Nice and easy list to follow. I fixed a silly problem on my site this morning courtesy of the reminder. Clients From Hell : The client calls around 9 PM on a Saturday... - “[very angry] I am reading your email in ...

I’ll be damned – more WP trouble

I was fixing a webcomic issue on Greg's blog, and I'll be damned if from one minute to the next, it didn't suffer from an index.php injection, too. This is weird as hell. A bunch of spurious content appeared on his homepage, although clicking through to those posts ...