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"R2D2-like robot"? seriously? who wrote this? maybe the guy who filmed it? because someone in the clip also calls it R2D2. It's the Android mascot! How can you not know that if you're geeky enough to attend a Android phone launch event?

Ah, so you never released your works. Bummer.

>> ^KnivesOut:

I never built any that were distributed to the community. Mostly I just fooled around with making stupidly overpowered weapons for me and my friends.
Seeking missles, mirv grenades, spike mirv grenades, seeking missles that spawned spike mirv grenades... You get the idea.>> ^ant:
>> ^KnivesOut:
IMO, QuakeC is what made Quake something really special. The modding community took it to the next level.
I learned C programming making mods for Quake, before I was even interested in programming professionally.

Which mods? I made two mods for DOOM 2: http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html ...

I never built any that were distributed to the community. Mostly I just fooled around with making stupidly overpowered weapons for me and my friends.

Seeking missles, mirv grenades, spike mirv grenades, seeking missles that spawned spike mirv grenades... You get the idea.>> ^ant:

>> ^KnivesOut:
IMO, QuakeC is what made Quake something really special. The modding community took it to the next level.
I learned C programming making mods for Quake, before I was even interested in programming professionally.

Which mods? I made two mods for DOOM 2: http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html ...

>> ^EMPIRE:

Doesn't look like her. Not hot enough.
Let me remind you how she looked back then: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianmack/2808498280/

>> ^ant:
>> ^EMPIRE:
i loled at the guy playing Quake with a damn joystick! people were idiots in the 90's

Yeah, I wonder how good he was. Who was that blonde gal? Killcreek?



Both are attractive to me.

Doesn't look like her. Not hot enough.

Let me remind you how she looked back then: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianmack/2808498280/


>> ^ant:

>> ^EMPIRE:
i loled at the guy playing Quake with a damn joystick! people were idiots in the 90's

Yeah, I wonder how good he was. Who was that blonde gal? Killcreek?

>> ^KnivesOut:

IMO, QuakeC is what made Quake something really special. The modding community took it to the next level.
I learned C programming making mods for Quake, before I was even interested in programming professionally.


Which mods? I made two mods for DOOM 2: http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html ...

>> ^EMPIRE:

i loled at the guy playing Quake with a damn joystick! people were idiots in the 90's


Yeah, I wonder how good he was. Who was that blonde gal? Killcreek?

>> ^FishBulb:

I know it changes geographically but the 80's were rad and the 90's were wicked, where I come from anyway.
..also Quakeworld rocks. Still have it installed.


Ditto for 1980s compared to 1990s. Do you still play QW?

After seeing all the info pouring out of the launch event, I think Microsoft is actually making a pretty good case for their phone. But we'll see next month whether or not it can walk the walk.

Whether or not it could dethrone the iPhone - I doubt it. But it does seem well positioned to make Android the wal-mart of smartphones, as a friend of mine put it. And, personally, I like the UI. It has great motion graphics and it's creative, unlike the giant wall of icons we have on other smart phones. I can't wait to try it out.

Plus, having one of the most easy development environments (Silverlight) and widespread game development toolkits (XNA) on the market is going to be a nice ace in the pocket when it comes to app development.

A negative review of the new lights, when they were being tested - this is the text from the "second story" in the summary.


If you like Honda Civics modded with blue neon, enormous spoilers and V-Tech stickers, you're gonna love what's happening to Toronto's most iconic structure.

Management of Canada's National Tower (formerly the Canadian National Tower) have begun testing the unfortunate new animated LEDs that were recently installed, dramatically transforming a brilliant exercise in modernist subtlety into a cheap, plastic martini spear. The "intelligent LED" colour effects will permanently go live after a launch event at sunset on June 28.

Environmentally, the new lighting system uses 10% less energy than conventional illumination (and 60% less than the previous dimly-lit setup, which was dismantled in 1996). The 1,330 LED panels are each about the size of a shoebox and the system is designed by Color Kinetics of Boston. The panels are located up the central shaft windows, at the base of each tier of the upper mast, and around the "bubble" beneath the Sky Pod.

The lighting effects are microprocessor controlled and can be animated in psychedelic patterns and in virtually any combination of colours. Last night's gaudy, rapidly-changing colours alarmed many Torontonians, though CN Tower management claims the lighting will be more subtle and won't be shifting as rapidly as it has been during testing.

We'll see about that. We think that whatever happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas.


Since installation I've found them to look really cool, giving new 'visual life' to the venerable tower.