BrokenBlog

The serial you get works on the Linux version, which is currently in alpha. Get your serial here. Thanks to Colin Moock for pointing it out.

Who knew?

GIMP and Photoshop (from what I remember) insist upon 256 colors for GIF images. It makes sense, because that way a palette index only takes up one byte, so I just assumed it was a limitation of the format. I’ve been living a lie.

About two years ago this guy named Paul Robertson made a 12-minute film of a video game that didn’t exist. It was Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 and it was good.

Now, after all these years of waiting, he’s released a trailer of sorts for a game that, quite like his previous film, does not in fact exist. It’s Kings of Power 4 Billion %. This one is a lot more ridiculous, but tons of fun in a violent seizure-inducing way.

Check out this circa 1995 Newsweek article where someone writes about how the Internet is not all that great in the tone of “crotchety old man”. He comments on how newspapers can’t be replaced so easily, and since the Internet lacks the single most important aspect of sales, the salesperson, it can’t replace that either. Pretty funny stuff really.

His mistake was not seeing what advances in technology could take care of. He complains about how the Internet is just a huge mess of unfiltered data, he just couldn’t percieve of a time where this data could be better organized. He’s right about some stuff though, anybody who sees computers as replacing teachers is being silly. Oh no 10 years from now when robots rule the Earth I will be the fodder of future websurfers who will knowingly laugh at my foolish predictions.