http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/

I don’t know very much about this blog. It is very good though, as I have been reading it for a couple weeks now. Essentially, it takes everything that the different candidates have done and actually runs a fact check of them. I had always wondered exactly how truthful some of the things these candidates say are and now I know.

The worst part about this blog is the fact that every single candidate has said things that don’t really pan out well. Its sad but “Politicians lie” exists because it works. Maybe this blog is the start of making that disappear.

I was randomly looking around and saw there was a new Starcraft patch.

1.15. Naturally, I wondered what in the world they could change in the patch. Well, it turns out, finally, finally, they are removing the requirement of having the CD in to be able to play.

Now, I recently bought starcraft and was replaying it. I was suffering through the horrendously low resolution, and low rez sprites and enjoying myself, but one day, i had removed the CD and no longer could play (i’m too lazy to put the CD back in), and haven’t gone to it since.

No-CD patches have been around almost as fast as patches have been coming out, quite frankly, the “CD check” is one of the most annoying experiences with computer gaming in general (and as i recently found, console gaming as well). If there was one thing that makes me belive DLC will eventually win out, its just the laziness to change discs.

See it live!

 http://www.nytimes.com/

Its sort of amazing to see it sync together so well.  I am honestly in awe to see it work that well.  I wonder if its a programming trick or something.

Right now, banner ads have a problem, they all have pretty bad performance rates, and this is due to the ads themselves pretty much sucking.  The problem being, everyone just sees an ad space the same way they see a commercial.  this is all you can really do, the closest to innovation is something like hte orbitz minigames.  yet, when you see an advertisement like this, what it shows is that there is a lot of creative space out there, creative space which has not been explored.  There is currently a void in creative advertisements, the first companies to excel at it will hit it big.  The first companies who hire these creative gurus will find themselves with ads like Apples.

On a side note, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a standardized web page design for ad spaces?

Always a 728×90 on top, always a 300×350 on the side?  Right now, something like this almost has to be designed from the ground up for the specific site.

Gizmodo has a small post on the new Radeon R680 here, and essentially says the speed of it is equivalent to 1000x cray-1 supercomputers.  Whenever I read something like this, it always boggles my mind.  The Cray one was first installed in 1976.

Thinking about that, I wonder what it would be like to go back in time only 30 years, and talk to those developers.

“In 30 years, we will have computers that are a thousand times faster just to make our games look prettier”.

I’ve recently been having a lot of dreams.  I think its due to me not using my brain enough.  I should start doing math problems at random or something.

The wierd part is that these dreams are always so…complicated.

Last nights was dreaming about the Scrubs characters.

Actually, it was me dreaming about Turk having a dream about being racist against African Americans.  In his dream, Cox was yelling at him and pointing out how he was being racist…  I don’t remember all of it, but that is the basic premise.

I think this is the 2nd time now, that I dreamed about someone having a dream…I wonder what it means.

By far the best, its an article penned by a former Dateline correspondent.

Its a very interesting view into the behind the scenes of the news show.  I have nothing more interesting to add yet.

 http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19845/page1/

boodlehimer (11:17): we followed the “no turn of the head rule”
boodlehimer (11:17): i.e. we got the biggest tv that we could such that you can see the entire thing from our couch without turning your head
boodlehimer (11:18): b/c we figured if you have to turn your head to see the entire thing it is too big for optimal tv watching
boodlehimer (11:18): I watch a lot of law and order svu
Frederick Lu (11:18): HAHA
Frederick Lu (11:18): that’s a great rule
Frederick Lu (11:18): i think i have to turn my head a little
Frederick Lu (11:18): at least
Frederick Lu (11:18): my eyes definitely move
boodlehimer (11:18): see…tvs too big for your place
Frederick Lu (11:19): yep
Frederick Lu (11:19): but that’s why it sits next to my smaller tv
Frederick Lu (11:20): in case my eyes get tired
Frederick Lu (11:20): i can watch my 37″