The cool people at Twitter are now testing out Twitter lists. Start following all of us using our staff list. Sam, Raul, Andrew, Bill and Aaron are there for you to read up on.
http://twitter.com/pixelatedGeek/staff
I have also started a Pixelated Geek fan list. If you want to be a part of it, just send an @ reply to PixelatedGeek saying so. Once we get a good amount of people on our fan list, we’ll be giving away prizes to random people on it.
As Christmas rolls in, the fight for the no.1 Christmas gift gets going. Robosapien made it one year, Pleo another, so it’s not that much of a stretch to see day of the ROPID have it’s day in the near future, the fastest and best jumping robot to hit the mean streets of Japan. Styled like the cutest kid you’ve ever seen and able to run around like a kid in a candy store whilst still responding to vocal commands with both speech and action (possibly together, although I doubt it’ll be programmed with profanity unlike real unruly brats). Watch out for this on Christmas lists in the next couple of years, just keep him away from Coke eh?
[Robot Watch Via Gizmodo]
Ever looked at your boring old Windows desktop and thought: ‘I really wish I could be playing Left 4 Dead right now’. Come on, admit it, we’ve all been there. But now thanks to UltraBE and the excellent free desktop customisation software Rainmeter you can feel like you’re in the game when you’re going about your mundane day-to-day office working duties. Word processing has never looked so good.
For full instructions and the theme download head on over to UltraBE’s deviantART Left 4 Dead HUD Desktop.
[Via LifeHacker]
As an Android handset owner, I took unnatural joy in the soon-to-be-released turn-by-turn GPS app! The app allows voice commands, fuzzy search (aka you don’t know the exact location, but know details of an event etc…), and all sorts of fun integrations with maps, traffic and street view. Check out the overview video!
What does all this mean to you? I’m not sure, but as for Garmin and TomTom…
[via Engadget and LifeHacker]
Yup. Scary.
Don’t know what Net Neutrality is? Here’s a tl;dr version of it. Imagine the internet highly regulated to the point where each ISP can control which websites you can go to. If you wanted to go to different websites that are outside the ISP’s “basic coverage”, then you would have to pay extra. Just think the United States current health care system applied to our internets.
Yea. Scary and fucked up.
[via Reddit]
The countdown on MekTek Studios’ website is counting down the hours to the release of the FULL MechWarrior 4 (plus all expansion packs) … FREE.
From a quote left by the forum admin:
“In honor of BattleTech’s 25th anniversary, Smith and Tinker has authorized MekTek.net and MekTek Studios to distribute MechWarrior 4 (along with its expansion packs) completely free. For years, MekTek.net has been the central point for online distribution of MechWarrior 4 expansion packs. Now they can provide the core game free to the fans as well. Keep an eye on BattleTech.com – the free download will be available soon!”
He also noted about the new franchise reboot coming as well:
“MechWarrior fans have been hoping, praying and anticipating a new game in the famed franchise ever since the last expansion pack for MechWarrior 4 was released in 2002. Now, seven years later, their prayers have been answered. IGN has the very first details about MechWarrior reboot that is currently in production at Smith and Tinker and Piranha games. Yes, that’s right, reboot. Instead of this game becoming MechWarrior 5, the developers have decided to completely re-launch the entire franchise, calling this new title MechWarrior.”
Personally, I can’t wait :D
An angry picture of me I used for my front page, circa 2003. Yeah, I look like a douche.
In the early days of the 21st Century, after Yahoo! bought out Geocities, I had a great idea (which, given the fact that I was just video game nerd was obviously related to video games). It was my dream to go to E3…somehow. So, I did what any idealistic teenager would do. I would start up my own gaming website and do nothing but talk about nothing but my obsession with video games. One week later, I abandoned the idea. Why? Because I was a teenager. It wouldn’t be until my sophomore year of high school that I made a website. But instead of making my kick ass video game site, I did what any angsty teen would do with their time: attempt to wax philosophical while coming off completely emo with pictures of me in several angry poses..
While I learned the basics of HTML coding and even a bit of Javascript, my website was something I probably could have replicated by signing up for an account on a blog site. Still…my website was mine, completely built from the ground up with HTML code I found on the internet. And even with everything I knew, my site followed a simple standard…black backgrounds with contrasting font that could make your eyes bleed. I was a fan of black (still am, actually), so every design had to be draped in black like it came out from the computer of goth kid with way too much time on his hands. And, if that wasn’t all, I only ever used Copperplate Gothic Bold, with a dash of Comic Sans MS thrown into the mix in an attempt to add a little more personality to the site when I decided to start adding fan pages about the things I liked. After 2005, I gave up on the site, using HTML to edit my myspace page before abandoning that as well. So yeah, I was among the crowd of desperate teens wanting to throw themselves on the internet to feel important. It kinda sucks I gave up on the page, though. After a few years of not updating, I’ve forgotten a good deal of HTML knowledge. Oh well.
RIP Geocities. It was definitely a learning experience.
1998 marked my absolute obsession with The X-Files. I loved that show, I lived for that show and I was addicted. Besides that Special Agent Fox Mulder made my little adolescent heart skip a beat. So to get my daily X-Philes fix, I forged through Netscape to get it. And oh, dear God, did I get it.
Hundreds of pages came up when I searched the term “X-Files”….including your usual porn.
I sifted through hundreds of fan sites and after awhile a common trend started to appear. Geocities.com. Not only were there X-Files geekry on these Geocities pages, people also had personalized homepages.
I asked myself, “What is this Geocities?” I had to get in on this shit, and quick. This was extraordinary. This was mind blowing. THIS WAS THE FUTURE.
From that day the name jesmes15 was created. www.geocities.com/jesmes15
It was a website about me, it included pictures of my friends, and of course a section, or may I say, page dedicated mainly to X-Files. My friend’s raved about my page, always checking on it to see if I updated, and even showing their families members who were also impressed. I thought I was a innovator. I thought I was a designer. I thought I was an engineering genius!!….well actually, I didn’t code shit, I just used their Drag-and-Drop tools…..But hell, I didn’t know the difference at the time.
Anyway, thank you Geocities, you were there when I was a noob. When I saw myself as lame, you gave me confidence, into making me think I was a great web designer, when actually I wasn’t. Ironically, I quite dislike web designing….but that’s besides the point!
You were the foundation for social networking. Without you, there would be no RateMyPic.com, AsianAvenue, Friendster, Xanga, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.
You made internet designing easy and you brought so much joy to noobs, like myself. So again thank you. You shall be missed, sweet prince of Web Hosting. Good bye.
If Adam Englund gets his way, the answer to San Diego’s airport problems, might just be the coolest airport design to date. How would you like to land on a floating airport? We’re not talking Aircraft carrier size here either, we’re talking floating city size. His plan is for a man-made island with 200 million square-foot of space spread across four stories with the potential for hotels, restaurants and shops. There is a minor hitch in this out-there plan and that’s the $20billion asking price. Bargain.
[Infrastructurist via Gizmodo]
Today is a sad day for many people in my generation. Today, Geocities is shutting down and going offline forever. I still remember when I first signed up for the website–erm page. I knew I wanted to make my own video game webpage. So naturally I reserved my “home” in the Times Square / Arcade neighborhood.
Neighborhood? What?!
Yes, before Geocities was bought out by Yahoo. Before it was free to have a URL link geocities.com/yourname. Before you had 5 megabytes of space to play with. You had to find a city and a neighhood. After you found the right neighborhood, you would need to find a vacant “home.” Each home had a different number, just like real home addresses do now.
I still remember my first URL on the internets. http://www.Geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/7733 . Yup. It was “TimberWolf’s Website.” It had to be one of most bad ass websites on the internet at that time. Well, in my mind at least. I mean, come on! It had animated Lemmings, explosions, Link Exchange, TimberWolf Net Mech graphics, and 3D animated text. What more could you ask for.
It was also noted that you scren had to have a screen res of at least 800×600 and you were using IE or Netscape.
Back when I was in high school, I would anxiously await for that lunch bell to ring. Once it rang, I’d run to the library to be first on one of the 3 computers that had internet access on it. For 30 minutes, I would update my website using HTML I had learned (well, copied) from other websites. Once I was done, I’d show it off to my friends. Of course they weren’t impressed. But I was.
Thank you, Geocities. With your advanced editor, I’ve learned the basics of the internet and HTML coding. I will miss and remember you always. =(
