September, 2008

  1. Did Spore DRM Cost Electronic Arts $25 Million?

    Staci Kramer wrote an interesting take on the fact that Spore was apparently the most heavily pirated game in history — there were an estimated 500,000 downloads of cracked versions of the game from BitTorrent sites. At $50 apiece, Kramer’s take is that Electronic Arts left $25 million on the table in its efforts to…

  2. Peggle Nights

    I don’t understand the appeal of Peggle at all, but my kids, their babysitter, and a whole host of other people can’t seem to get enough of it. And now, PopCap has released a sequel, Peggle Nights.

  3. Not All Improbable Events Are Urban Legends

    Over at Boing! Boing! gadgets guru John Browlee profiles some awesome looking Lazer Tag guns, but slips in a pretty big factual error in the process, I’m really tempted to pull the trigger on these. I’ve never played LazerTag: I’m an 80s child whose parents unfortunately bought into the whole nightly news scare when the…

  4. bbPress Alpha and BBXF

    For the first time in about a month, there’s been an update on the status of the bbPress 1.0 alpha series, with Sam Bauers reporting in the bbPress blog that the first alpha should be out sometime in the next few weeks. What really got my attention, however, was this, An alpha version of bbPress’…

  5. Don’t Pull That Lever! Switch Cover Plate

    Ran across this in Monsters from the Vault magazine, and a Google search turned up at least one blogger who was fortunate enough to receive one of these “Don’t Pull That Lever!” switch cover plates. These were created by Angie Olson and given out at Monster Bash 2005 in Mankato, Minnesota.

  6. Progressive License WordPress Plugin

    Progressive License is a clever little WordPress plugin that allows the user to, among other things, change the licensing terms for blog posts over time. For example, you could have a copyright notice appear on a blog post until 30 days after it is published whereupon the license automatically switches over to a Creative Commons…