I have a lot of contempt for the American news media, but sometimes that spills over into actual hatred.
Starting on 1/10/08 there were a series of brutal winter storms in southern China.
Here’s a picture of a soldier using a flamethrower to melt ice off of frozen power lines in Yunnan province, which is at about [...]
Google does not appear to be fully respecting robots.txt right now. I’ve encountered a few cases of this today - including Google’s own Blogger.com.
Checking Blogger’s robots.txt file shows a short list of disallowed URLs:
# robots.txt for http://www.blogger.com
User-agent: *
Disallow: /profile-find.g
Disallow: /comment.g
Disallow: /email-post.g
However, a Google search using the query “site:blogger.com profile find” returns
As you can see, the [...]
Google will now only return the first 1000 results for a search. This is a bad thing! More elaboration and discussion will follow tonight when I have time to type up a whole post.
The Internet is a very angry place. I’m not talking about vicious right wing bloggers, or fanboys screaming about console/format wars. Those are to be expected. Rather, I’m talking about the online population in general, rather than trolls, and about things not just isolated to the trivial. Angry knee-jerk responses are becoming more and more [...]
I purchased an Xbox 360 in August, and it’s been a fantastic system, and I’ve had a lot of fun with it. One of the things I’ve really been looking forward to on the 360 has been Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD - although I’ve never been great at Capcom fighters, especially SF2, it [...]
Google Docs and Spreadsheets is an interesting service that Google has been offering for some time now. It’s a combination of purchased and in-house technology to provide a document editor similar to Microsoft Word and a spreadsheet program similar to Microsoft Excel, free, online, and with some unique web-based functionality, especially the ability for multiple [...]
Back in April, I posted about Google Docs and Spreadsheets, where I noted that Google acquired Tonic Systems, creators of online presentation software. Well, here we are 5 months later, and Google Presentations is go. Google Docs and Spreadsheets has been renamed to just plain Google Docs, and has gotten a facelift - and now, [...]
So, today on Kotaku, there was this story: China: Chinese Police Like Counter-Strike, which is pretty hilarious. It’s a little article about how cops in Tianjin had a 3-day CS tourney, and they are passing it off as counterterrorism training. Personally, I think they just wanted to have some fun, but whatever. It’s sourced from [...]
So according to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft and Yahoo are reconsidering a merger. At the same time, Reuters reports that Microsoft is trying to take over Yahoo. Since those two things are often pretty much the same, this is pretty crazy news.
Yahoo is still the most popular site on the internet, and has a [...]
Capcom held its Spring Gamer’s day in San Francisco a few days ago. Detailed reporting available through Kotaku.
Two things really, really stand out and make me happy.
First, above all else, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix!!!!!!! This is incredible, incredible news. SPF2T is one of my favorite games of all time, and I once [...]
