http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/ Copyright 2008 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:07:54 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Wii is very "kid-friendly" and is clearly the best video game system to buy for kids. But the News Channel is sort of fucked up: Dark Wii from Mike Merrill on Vimeo. This is just a small example, but... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2008/04/dark_wii.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2008/04/dark_wii.html Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:07:54 -0800 I don't like verification codes, but as I have seen the effects of spammers on web forms and comments and such I know they are needed. But a verification code is not a password and does not needed to be... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2008/03/design_advice_v.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2008/03/design_advice_v.html Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:56:29 -0800 Gaming in 2008 looks really fun. Josh pointed me to this message board thread: The xbox 360 2008 (slated!) Thread!, which loads pretty slow because it has screenshots for almost all the XBOX360 games scheduled to come out next year.... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2008/01/prepping_for_20.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2008/01/prepping_for_20.html Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:13:25 -0800 So I wanted to copy some text from the internet, and put it on my iPhone as a reminder. We all know you can't copy text on the iPhone, but I was on my computer! So I copied the text... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/08/iphone_hack_not.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/08/iphone_hack_not.html Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:50:22 -0800 Ms. Pac Man from Mike Merrill and Vimeo.... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/08/ms_pac_man_vide.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/08/ms_pac_man_vide.html Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:32:21 -0800 Craig made humancalendar.com, and he asked Willow and I to be a part of it (I'm Monday, she's Friday). I know Craig from the internet because I was a big fan of humanclock.com. Here are five questions for Craig: 1.... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/08/5_questions_for.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/08/5_questions_for.html Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:39:42 -0800 Chris Samarin has an idea to reduce clutter and "save the world". He started SwitchPlanet.com as a "social media trading website" where people exchange the things they don't want for things they do, all for free, and can then make... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/07/trading_your_ju.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/07/trading_your_ju.html Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:57:23 -0800 Nerd.Blog guest post by Melissa Delzio Cut & Paste has partnered with Adobe to bring our digital design tournament series to six cities in the US (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, San Francisco) and five cities across... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/07/digital_design.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/07/digital_design.html Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:50:50 -0800 Buggy Saints Row - LIVE! from kmikeym on Vimeo (original on www.cabel.name)... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/05/short_clip.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/05/short_clip.html Thu, 17 May 2007 14:12:40 -0800 Jimmy Wales -- commonly known around Wikipedian circles as "Jimbo" -- wants every person in the world to have total access to the sum of all human knowledge, in their own language, for free. "That's free as in speech,"... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/04/jimbo_wales_at.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/04/jimbo_wales_at.html Copyright Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:39:00 -0800 Fiona tested out her abilities to be a virtual surgeon in the world of Trauma Center: Second Opinion: Dr. Fiona Plays Trauma Center on Vimeo... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/02/fiona_plays_tra.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/02/fiona_plays_tra.html Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:02:13 -0800 Cory Webb is back with a special tool that could just save your life in this special edition of Things You Shouldn't Do: Getting Drunk And Falling Asleep In Bars: drinking_buddy 1.0 was a perl cgi script that I wrote... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/02/things_you_shou_2.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/02/things_you_shou_2.html Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:43:11 -0800 Taking apart your digital camera Republished from cmerrill.com under a Creative Commons license. A while back my digital camera stopped working properly. I had it in a plastic bag with a leaky water bottle and it ended up getting wet.... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/02/things_you_shou_1.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/02/things_you_shou_1.html Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:00:09 -0800 Installing Linux on a MacBook Nerd.Blog presents Things You Shouldn't Do, a new series chronicling the things that nerds do that other people should never try. The first in our series is installing linux on your MacBook. Via Cory Webb:... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/02/things_you_shou.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2007/02/things_you_shou.html Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:29:47 -0800 So Much Nerd! on Vimeo Spent today installing Windows XP on my MacBook Pro. Only watch/read this if you are into nerdy stuff. Here's the details: First of all, the funniest line from the Boot Camp instructions, just in... http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2006/12/so_much_nerd.html http://www.urbanhonking.com/nerdblog/archives/2006/12/so_much_nerd.html Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:53:06 -0800