Frozen Remains of WWII airman identified – from CNN and found via the Penny Arcade boards.
A blonde US serviceman who went missing in WWII was found entombed in ice last year, apparently, though only recently identified. Sadly, he wasn’t subject to any super-soldier experiments during the war, and as such was unable to survive being encased in ice for half a century.
(0)Yup, the new patch is out. Catholicism 2008-03-10, as it’s listed in the update directory, focuses on the mortal sins in a re-balancing effort with a view to making things more enjoyable at lower levels.
In a nutshell, gluttony now stacks, science has been nerfed (again), and there’s a tougher stance on farming gold from low level players. Skill trees and professions remain unchanged.
priesthood: once you get bored of the old three-head trick, there’s not much left
The primary motvation here, of course, is to drive traffic to churches and encourage new user-generated content for the priest class, which is increasingly under-used thanks to successive nerfing by earlier patches.
From this morning’s spam crop:
what else would it be for?
Also, a rogue apostrophe was spotted in a rural Tescos this evening. Initial reports suggest that it is to be considered hostile and treated with extreme contempt.
I’m a little late to the iPhone Roadmap event party, since I kind of dropped off the grid for the rest of the week last Wednesday (not that you’d know it, watching me paw at my feeds over public WiFi as I waited for a night bus somewhere in the Square Mile).
I’m not sure I have much orginal commentary to add, just that the demo of Activesync was fucking sexy. I’ve been harping on for a while now about the idea of one’s contacts, bookmarks, calendars and general everything living on a server somewhere and just being wirelessly accessed by a device, and here it is! Well, apart from bookmarks. Still, it was so cool. Hopefully this won’t stay suits-only, with Apple presenting consumers with OTA .Mac syncing.
Another Enterprise morsel: 802.1x, finally! Not that I’ll still be on campus by June when it actually rolls out, so I hope the beta escapes to bittorrent or similar.
Also super-sexy was the notion of gaming on the iPhone. They had Sega demo a version of Super Monkey Ball that they had rushed together in two weeks flat and it fucking rocked my socks. I’ve been playing Labyrinth on my jailbroken iPhone for some weeks now, and tilting my phone to manipulate monkeys in perspex balls rolling around OpenGL-rendered mazes is really a kind of logical conclusion to that.
that guy works for sega, if you couldn’t tell
In unrelated news: I finally saw Avenue Q – It rocks so fucking hard! I can safely assert that you haven’t really heard “The Internet Is For Porn” until you’ve seen it performed on stage by actors holding actual fucking muppets while the audience goes completely nuts for it.
Another policeman who needs to avail himself of Snopes.com at the earliest convenience.
(0)- What the hell is the point of specially engineered footballs to allow for “more control, more goals”? Surely any advantage conferred by such a ball will be conferred to the other team as well?
- My blog is less green now, do you like it?
- It bothers me that children as young as seven roaming a shopping mall alone, dressed like they’re going out to get pissed. I think I’m getting old (at least they’re not on my lawn!).
- Why the fuck is it so fucking hard to find a comb? And where the hell did my comb go, exactly?
- I haven’t written a stupid play in ages, I totally should.
- As Oscar WIlde once said*, hell is other people. Coursework is also other people, therefore coursework is hell. Though this might just be because this particular coursework involves configuring and maintaining a Linux server…
- The new Hot Chip album makes it hard to walk normally in public. This is a good thing.
- I’m back with Safari, because Firefox 2 for Mac is ugly and generally slow. I have high hopes for version 3, but it doesn’t work with the Google sync-o-tron yet, so fuck that.
*He may or may not have also said that hell is going to prison for buggery, historical records are unclear.