- VLC media player I’ve almost certainly linked to this before, but the VLC cross-platform open source media player is so good, I’m prepared to risk it. A Quicktime Player-killer for the Mac.
- Why every good liberal should marry an American… “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore…”
- Kerry wins by Landslide “Since most of the President’s decisions affect people in other lands (often negatively), then it stands to reason that those people should be included in the electoral process…”
- Blast from the past: Play Web Trumps I got a referral from Web Trumps for the first time in a hundred million years. It still looks incredibly sharp and fresh and creative. It’s also still bloody good fun to play…
- Hello Kitty Online World – taking MMORPGs to an entirely fluffier level This may very well be the cutest thing I have ever seen in my entire life and may push the MMORPG squarely over the gender divide
- Taken to extremes – The Guardian Online on Extreme Programming and Scrum methodologies I’m quite keen on Scrum stuff and on any form of programming or working that minimises meetings and formal project plans. We used some of this stuff in my last project in the BBC.
- Metacritic on Halo 2 I’m getting a bit concerned by the complete absence of reviews for Halo 2. It sounds lame – I’m waiting for it with baited breath – but what if it’s a total letdown?
- John Kerry’s address isn’t entirely lovable of course – it also includes this startling quotation of lunactic patriotism “But in an American election, there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as Americans. And that is the greatest privilege and the most remarkable good fortune that can come to us on earth”
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