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No, silly, don’t call Godzilla or Mothra to save you, simply do as the chameleon does and BLEND INTO YOUR SURROUNDINGS! How so? Click for more!

Countdown to the number of vending machine rapes in Japan… 3… 2… 1…

Was it worth it?

Antique dealers. My god, you’re wrestling with having car salesmen ego, I hope you know that. Oh, and I hope you know that those of you who deal in jewellery are mostly overweight, 60+ year olds who do it as a fancy while get supported by your overworked doctor husband. Just sayin’. Let’s see what happens when Lord H offers a hand during the worst financial crisis ever known by animal, mineral or vegetable™ and gets one of “those” responses in turn.

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Freedom

Blogs, huh? Great places to vent about junk that no one cares to read? That’s right! Let’s get cracking

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Many current developers of web games seem to have a fondness for 2D platformers. However, their desire to capture what made Sonic and Mario games so great is rarely achieved. In an attempt to breach that gap, Significant Bits takes a look at three common design principles that made those classic titles so enjoyable. ‘To start off, the interface needs to be quick and responsive. Input should have an immediate effect on the character in order to foster a sense of full control. Granularity and different control techniques, i.e., pressing, tapping and holding, are also important as they provide a level of precision to the movement. … Now, as far as the environments themselves, it’s not a coincidence that they’re often filled with all sorts of slides, bridges, trampolines, ladders, etc. In a way, they’re simply playgrounds for the player, both literally and figuratively. They’re catered to the moveset, and they enhance the flow of the game.

Pocket Gamer has been getting its fingers inside the unique new Zeebo console — a sub $200 system designed for emerging markets — to discover it’s based on a hacked version of the T-Mobile G1 Google phone. It effectively consists of the chipset from the HTC Dream/G1 Android phone, plus some extra I/O to deal with TV screens, controllers and the like. If this gaming, entertainment and educational console for the billion-strong middle classes in emerging economies such as Brazil and India catches on, HTC could become a serious global gaming force. Qualcomm’s Mike Yuen said in an interview, ‘We have this mass market chipset, and our next-generation chipset is getting faster. What we announced, [Qualcomm's] Snapdragon [chipset], is going to netbooks; it bumps it a few notches above that. The cell phone business, including us, is never going to build a processor that’s going to match or surpass what the video game guys do. So, why chase that?

A JAPAN Airlines jetliner preparing to depart Los Angeles was grounded after one of the plane’s jet engines apparently sucked up a cargo container, officials said.

Television footage showed the large object wedged into an engine as the plane sat on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport.

JAL Flight 61 had been leaving the gate when the unidentified object blocked one of the engines, according to Los Angeles World Airports, the agency which operates the airport.

The 245 passengers on board were transported back to the airport’s Tom Bradley International Terminal. No one was injured.

An investigation is underway.

Australia is known around the world for its large and deadly creepy crawlies, but even locals have been shocked by the size of the giant venomous spiders that have invaded an Outback town in Queensland. Scores of eastern tarantulas, which are known as ‘bird-eating spiders’ and can grow larger than the palm of a man’s hand, have begun crawling out from gardens and venturing into public spaces in Bowen, a coastal town about 700 miles northwest of Brisbane.

As some of you may have guessed Lord H is blogging a lot of rubbish over at I Am Lord H, but that doesn’t mean he’s done! No, not by a long shot. Why? Because we need to understand what people consider love post 25 years old. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite its complexity, the software development process has gotten better over the years. “Mature” programmers remember how many things required manual intervention and hand-tuning back in the day. Today’s software development tools automatically perform complex functions that programmers once had to write explicitly. And most developers are glad of it!

Young whippersnappers may not even be aware that we old fogies had to do these things manually. These functions still exist in the software you write, and some specialized programmers, such as Linux kernel developers, continue to apply these techniques by hand. Yet most people depend on the functionality provided by built-in libraries, the operating system or some other part of a development environment.