Bioware’s new Dragon Age: Origins CRPG arrived in the mail on Wednesday. Confused marketing prior to the release had me wondering whether to buy it. I don’t understand why Bioware insists on using their concept art to market their titles. The art is always dark and murky, a little pulp, and never reflects the actual [...]
I am just like everybody else. This year, for the second time, ever, I stayed up waaay late into the early morning to attend the annual American consumer event known as Black Friday. Now, Black Friday might sound a little ominous to readers outside the U.S., and it’s often puzzling to my non-Stateside friends. (Having [...]
I’m often curious about the online acronyms that get bantered around, mostly because I live and breathe my life of the internets, and after awhile, not knowing what is being discussed or going on gets tiresome. So today, an quick look into what I’ve learned about APIs! APIs are a hot commodity in web developed [...]
I literally Stumbled (StumbleUpon, that is!) the Six Word Stories homepage tonight and found the brief stories impressive. I’ve heard of similar ideas on Twitter and other blogs and such, but the selections they’ve made for Six Word Stories really hit a literary gap I’ve left unfilled in my recent life. So, inspired by the [...]
A few of the best tutorial collections on Photoshop techniques I’ve come cross in the last couple of months. It feels redundant to make a list of lists, but the subjects and tutorials vary wildly from each other. Some of the lists deal with photo-manipulation while others show you how to create neat text and [...]
Saw this today, courtesy of Neil Gaiman’s twitter post. I’ve actually thought about that question before. You darling man! Yes, of course, yes!