• Nintendo takes wraps off of WiiWare
  Nintendo is supporting “indie” games. Sort of.
• Tales of the Rampant Coyote: The Black Triangle

• Gore Galore but a Violent Game Can’t Hold a Gutbucket to the Movies
  NYTimes covers the Manhunt 2 ban.

• Finding Nemo at a Game Studio’s Steampunk Office Suite
  Who wouldn’t want to work for this guy?

• The Perils of JavaSchools
  I was going back and reading some classic Joel on Software looking for advice on managing software engineers that would apply for game production. This article doesn’t relate to that, but it is a good read. I’m glad I made it through WM before they switch

• pycron
  crontab like service for Windows. Written in Python.
• Unicycle Quidditch Rules
• A Game Studio’s Steampunk Office Suite

• The Poverty Platform
  NYTimes magazine article about John Edwards’ campaign and the issue of poverty in modern American politics, especially within the Democratic party.

• Gaming: 2012: Online Only Video
  Will Wright interviewed by The New Yorker.

• The Great Gaming Moral Panic
  From The Escapist. Good overall assessment of the hysteria over game violence. I would recommend this article to non-gamers who are struggling to understand the game violence issue.
• Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution
• BBC news: Russian ninja arrested in Italy

• Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken
  From the Official Google Research Blog.
• Would global warming make for a good game?
  A Microsoft-sponsored contest.

Safari on Windows. I understand why they have to do this before the iPhone comes out, but it’s going to be just as broken as iTunes is on Windows.

iTunes (Do you capitalize that at the beginning of a sentence?) on Windows is a total memory hog, breaks every UI guideline, and has a nasty habit of locking files and DLLs that it shouldn’t even be using for long periods of time. Don’t even get me started on the video playback functionality.

iTunes has taken to informing me that there’s a new version now every time I start it, but the installer will not run on my computer because of an obscure 2701 error (or something like that) which according to the internets is caused by not having VBScript installed and enabled on my computer. No other company requires me to have VBScript to install their product! WTF, Apple? I thought it was supposed to just work?

Oh, and P.S. I don’t want to install the new version of Quicktime either and I really don’t want you to reactivate the system tray icon for it. I deactivated it for a reason.