Steven’s Notebook

It’s all about square pegs and round - whoops, I mean rectangular holes. If you’ve got a friend or relative who still just doens’t get the whole widescreen / letterbox / pan-and-scan thing, despite you waving your hands and drawing pictures on napkins, here’s a great resource: Stop by VideoGrunt and have them watch episodes […]

Ah, it’s not even Halloween yet and the run-up to Christmas has begun — with so many new games either just now available or coming very soon. That means it’s time for gamers to be looking at game videos, demos and reviews as well at getting together with their friends to decide what the […]

Every few weeks the local school system has a “Learning Matters” day.
I guess I don’t think that “learning matters” means the same thing that the school systems do, since the way they show that “learning matters” is to send the students home early.
Huh?

Tom, Molly and Veronica understand my rant and agree.

This is getting ridiculous. I’ve heard it now from Leo and the others on This Week in Tech, Emory and Alex on This Week In Media, and now even the Buzz Out Loud crew. Almost every time they get to talking about Google’s purchase of YouTube and the ever-present possibility of video-hosting sites being […]

Actualmente Xbox.com está en proceso de actualización.

Estaremos de regreso próximamente con toda la información que necesitas sobre Xbox, Xbox 360, y tus juegos favoritos.

No, no, no… definately not dead, just resting and recharging for bigger and better community gaming action starting soon.

Pretty Girls, Handsome Guys…
…Parties…
…and parents taking pictures.

Mike McB’s Spyware Cleanup is a good series to read through, to learn just how messed up a Windows system can get and some of the tools to use when (not if) you’re in the same situation.
Mike, you’ve got more patience than I do. When I was shown the family PC in similar condition a […]

Yesterday on TWIT:
Vista ship dates, Windows Genuine disadvantage, and why Google will never buy YouTube.

[emphasis mine]
Today’s press release, from google.com: Google buys YouTube. John C. Dvorak has a cow, Film at 11 (or earlier if you check the website, of course)
Purely by coincidence, as they were posting their press release, I was uploading my […]

One of my favorite nonfiction authors, Steven Johnson, has an article in today’s New York times: The Long Zoom. He writes about Will Wright’s still-in-development game, Spore, and the way it can help people take a set back to look at the bigger picture and how their actions are connected into it.
Spore’s players […]

On tonight’s LOST: a nice hat-tip to a particular author.

Two more items for webheads: Russ Weakley’s Web standards checklist and the excellent Beginner’s guide from a seasoned CSS designer by Cameron Moll.

Sam’s pointing to several interesting tools this week, including Mootools’
Transcorners and DateBlocks. Web developers, check ‘em out.