Yearly Archives: 2005

Colorize your black and white photos. This looks amazingly simple, much easier than doing it in Photoshop. All you have to do is scribble the color you want over the area and an algorithm figures the rest you for you. … Continue reading →

December 7, 2005 | Leave a comment

Court Blocks Illinois Video Game Sales Regulation

“The judge said that there was no evidence presented to support the view that playing violent video games has a lasting effect on aggressive thoughts and behavior. He also said the definition of “sexually explicit” was vague.”

I have been playing violent video games for years and I am not a homicidal maniac. People need to stop trying to blame everyone else and take some responsibility in what their kids do. Instead they expect the government to do the parenting for them. Let’s just plop kids in front of the TV and do whatever we want and just let the FCC control what our kids see.

Violence has actually gone down. The murder rate for 2004 actually hit a 40 year low. Also, most studies show almost no relationship between violent video games and violence. Only 12% of video games are rated “M”, while 55% of movies are rated “R”.

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Adobe/Macromedia have announced a couple of new software bundles. The lower end bundle, Adobe® Design Bundle, includes: Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software with Macromedia® Flash® Professional 8 and goes for $1599. The Adobe® Web Bundle includes: Adobe Creative Suite … Continue reading →

December 5, 2005 | Leave a comment

The Subliminal Reassurances of Procedural Dramas. Don’t worry.

November 29, 2005 | Leave a comment

WordPress 2.0

Asymptomatic reveals some of the bigger changes in WordPress 2.0.

“One important note before we begin: Many of the changes in WordPress from 1.5 to 2.0 are under the hood. They are things that you’re not going to notice unless you are developer. There are some features that casual users will notice that are significant, but (in my opinion) most of the real change has happened where most people won’t see.”

There is now some AJAX goodness in the admin sections. Including being able to add categories right from the Write Post page, yay! You will be able to browse for images and upload them directly from the write page. There was a bump in version numbers from 1.6 to 2.0, so there must a large number of improvents over the current 1.5.2 release. From the sound of it the code under WordPress is a giant improvement. This is something I probly will never see, but great for the people who create the plugins. (I have no programming skills :) )

The beta is currently out now, but I am gonna wait for an official release.

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