Ghostbusters: The Video Game = WIN

I’ll review it once I beat it. I’m playing casually, so it may not be immediate, want a review right now? check out gamespot, kotaku, or joystiq, they’ve all written plenty about it.

So the new firmware has been available to the public (albeit illegitimately) for a few weeks, and it was officially released by apple yesterday.

So far, I’m impressed. The first thing you’ll notice is the extra page in front of your home screen, that’s the spotlight search. Pretty handy if you have a ton of contacts or emails you want to sort through. Enter “John” and your greeted by every John in your phonebook, every email from the aforementioned John, and every John “Cougar” Mellancamp song in your library. Nifty.

The next Huge item for me was Push notification, I’ve been waiting for this since I picked up my first gen iPod Touch 2 years ago, before there was even an app store, or any plans for one. Basically, Push lets you receive notifications from assorted apps or service you may employ, for example, you no longer have to leave AIM open and running on the phone to be informed of when you get a new IM, seems simple, yes, but apple has been holding it just out of reach until now. Unfortunately as of this writing, none of my apps have been updated by their devs to support this feature, but it’s only a matter of time

Other notable improvements include the much-ballyhooed inclusion of copy/paste functionality, the landscape keyboard for email/texting, and the addtion of stereo bluetooth.

It’s pretty sweet, as far as I’m concerned, so everyone go out and get an iPhone with 3.0…. NOW!

I had to share this one, My amigo Ito has written a lovely eulogy for analog:

“Here’s my analog eulogy-haiku…

chrome plastic controls
aluminum foil signal
analog has passed

When remembering analog, I am drawn to the memory of my parent’s Panasonic Color(!) CRT with its chromed plastic channel-selection knobs. Each dial – UHF & VHF – had an independent “fine-tuning” sleeve that would allow the user to make subtle frequency reception adjustments. With patience, one could manually reset VHF channel 3, recieve channel 8’s signal, thus throwing off all subsequent channel’s reported number. That was the world that analog belonged in. The red (sometimes green) L.E.D. display, the advent of on-screen control panels, the demise of the Cathode Ray Tube were but backlit printed celluloid markers of analog’s dotage.

So, it is on this occasion that we commit analog to the ether, to forever broadcast the opening of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in exponentially attenuated frequency to all of our interstellar neighbors. Rest in peace, analog. And try not to attract the attention of warlike alien races capable of interstellar travel. ”

Big thanks to analog for ensuring the continued demise of my optical nerves. It truely is like losing an old friend. Good night. and Good luck.

Continuing to fool myself into thinking anyone actually reads this… I’ve been delayed quite a bit after a busy few weeks,.

So Lifehacker is doing this awesome thing where the editors show us what they carry in their laptop bags. None of them seem to hold a candle to the catastrophe that is my bag, so after work tonight, I’m going to write a little something up on the contents of my bag, and post the results over on lifehacker. stay tuned!

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Ok, a few observations:

Finally, an explanation of Dr. Marvin Candle’s hand injury.

Anyone else notice that Sayid was wearing Roger’s “Workman” uniform? was the body Hurley found in the van a few seasons ago in fact Sayid?

Didn’t Jack realize the other repurcussions from blowing up the swan? What would’ve happened to Desmond when he crashed on the Island? if there were no button to push? he’d probably be long dead.

I have to agree with Miles, the “Incident” that Jack is so intent on preventing, is probably the explosion that he intends on creating.

Anyone else think Sayid rigged that nuke to NOT explode? He’s getting very shady, that Sayid. Also, what makes anyone think that Sayid actually gave Jack the Nuke part of that bomb? he could’ve given jack some sort of timer and said whatever he wanted… you think Jack knows what a nuclear warhead looks like?

Finally, as we all know, just because Juliet was pounding a bomb with a rock and the season ended with a flash, doesn’t mean the bomb went off…Lost has a tendency of making you think the worst, next time we see the Losties, I’m quiet sure they won’t be exploded.

Good God. What a finale! I’ve never been so happy to see a dentist! Love that Bernard! I nearly fell off my chair when Rose said “what is wrong with you people?” Those two really had the right idea, find a quiet corner and stay to themselves. also, Vincent, FTW.

Just heard from Russ that 3D Realms shut down. RIP Duke Nukem Forever…. I would’ve waited for you… you were going to be my first…

I’ve come up with, what I believe, is a relatively cool idea for a short film. Until I’ve spoken to the prospective crew, It’ll be kept top secret. For reference purposes, internally, this project will be called “Jackhammer”.

English Russia has an AMAZING Wall-e case mod featured. Seriously, the details on this thing are unbelievable! If you can read russian, head over to this site for some more detailed instructions. This things been featured in so many blogs, it may be more popular than the Swine Flu.
Also, as an added bonus, Jesus Monopoly.