WordPress' plans to incorporate put on hold
— and their reported first employee no longer involved #Madden 2006 bug shrinks player to 7 inches tall
— careful not to squish him via pressthebuttons.com #Video: Review of the POPStation Portable
— a PSP clone that plays very differently from the real thing via b3ta #Jet Blue disabled showed DirecTV during problem flight
— CNN corrects the earlier incorrect report #Andrew Raaff's roundup of legal reactions to the Google Print lawsuit
— amazing set of analysis on both sides; I’m strongly in Google’s camp here #Mini-Microsoft
— anonymous blogger dishes dirt from within Microsoft as they try to reinvent themselves #Video: Grandaddy's "Jed's Other Poem"
— don’t miss this one; fan-made video programmed on an Apple ][+ #Google Secure Access beta
— Windows client for secure wifi through a Google VPN; privacy issues ahoy via websearchninja.com #Plague strikes World of Warcraft
— contagious disease infects players, leading to quarantines and panic #Lost Garden on the Nintendo Revolution
— long and fascinating read about genre specificity and casual gaming #ETech 2006 Call for Participation
The last chance to submit proposals for the Emerging Technology 2006 conference is this Monday, September 19. The overall theme of the conference is the progressive trend toward making technology useful, helping us rediscover what’s meaningful instead of overwhelming us with information. But it’s just a theme, so don’t let it hold you back if you have a great idea.
This year, I’m honored to be sitting on the program committee with such geek luminaries as Clay Shirky, Tom Coates, Cory Doctorow, and Rael Dornfest. (I’m not sure how that happened, but I suspect a bug in Rael’s committee nomination code.)
Anyway, get those proposals in! I promise to selfishly try to design a conference that I’d want to go to.
