I’m late to the review party (I was too busy playing the game), so all the superlatives have been used up, but Bioshock is the undisputed Game of the Year. The central plot is shaky at times, but the atmosphere created by the rich backstory and gorgeous scenery is the best I’ve ever experienced in a video game.
A reporter should not be assigned to cover subject X unless he has as good an understanding of X as a baseball writer is expected to have of baseball.
It’s like a Zen koan — if you say something stupid, and no one is there to hear it, are you still an idiot?
The new version of iPhoto, announced not too long ago, features Web Gallery, a way to export your photo library to a .Mac web share. The sample gallery confirms that these Ajax‐heavy galleries use Prototype and Scriptaculous under the hood. It could not make me happier that Apple seem to have adopted the two libraries company‐wide.
Now, I worked on [NFL] Head Coach. There’s no excuse at all for that game and I’m really, truly, sorry. We all tried submitting “Game is awful” as a bug, but nobody listened.
Ethan and Mark, we’re very happy with Prototype and script.aculo.us at 37signals, but thanks for your concern. Prototype has served me quite well since I created it in early 2005.
Anyone who has watched — from afar or close‐up — the agglomeration of media control over the past four decades can only sigh. If you’ve been one of those many American journalists — young or old — who actually tries to get some good reporting published between assignments on ridiculous stories, you know full well how much consolidation of the media has contributed to throwing up barricades against your best efforts.