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Excellent games designer gets excellent job
I’ve blabbed about the superb Half-Life 2 mod Minerva before, so it’s nice to see that Adam Foster’s efforts have been rewarded: he’s bagged a job at Valve, working on Half-Life 2 Episode Three.
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Despicable rags
Obsolete has written a fantastic post about Robert Murat’s successful libel action against 11 – 11! – newspapers. the truly unprecedented payout to Robert Murat by not just the Express papers but every single one of the daily tabloids with the exception of the Daily Sport, three of the Sunday tabloids and also the Scotsman…
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Does your iPhone 3G sound different?
Here’s one for the 3G owners: does your iPhone sound different to your old iPhone when you’re playing music? I’m using the same headphones, same EQ settings and same music, but the 3G sounds less bassy than the first-gen iPhone: it’s hard to explain, but the best way I can describe it is that the…
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Perfect parenting: Brad, Angelina and the N-word
In much the same way I love trashy pop music, Mrs Bigmouth loves trashy magazines – particularly the ones with soft-focus shots of impossibly good-looking celebrities and their impossibly perfect offspring. She particularly enjoys looking for the N-word, which occasionally sneaks into the article and depth-charges the portrayal of perfect parenting. The N-word is “nanny”.…
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Radiohead go open source
Well, sort of. The video for House of Cards uses a whizzy data visualisation technique, whatever that means, and techy types can download the data from Google Code and fiddle with it. Here’s the video. Or you could just zoom around a 3D model of Thom Yorke’s head. [Via Metafilter]
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Seven-word DVD review: Jesus Camp (documentary)
Makes you want to punch a nun. Supplemental review: could do without the doomy music. What’s on-screen is scary enough, so the music’s just annoying.
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More iPhone 3G nonsense
As Charles Arthur puts it: O2 opens brewery, forgets bottles. For what it’s worth my local Carphone Warehouse didn’t open at 8.02; it opened at 9, and when the doors opened there were five people already at the counter. Maybe they were magicians, or maybe they were friends and family of staff. IT IS A…
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Ad-supported music can’t work
An interesting post on Silicon Alley Insider about the business model for advertising-funded music: The basic economics: A song lasts 3.5 minutes. The majors have been asking for a penny each time one gets played. Let’s say the site shows a new ad every time the song changes. To break even the site needs to…
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Babies don’t come with instruction manuals. But you can buy one
You get a lot of advice when you’re about to become a parent, or when you’ve just become a parent. Most of it is well-intentioned, but it’s largely useless. Sometimes it’s contradictory – so one person says “you MUST do this!” while someone else says “you MUST NOT do this!”; sometimes it’s based on half-remembered…
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On O2’s iPhone upgrade system
If you’re only allowing people to upgrade online and you’re encouraging every single one of them to visit at the same time, it might be an idea to check that (a) your website works and (b) it can cope with the demand. Just a thought.