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Month: March 2011

  • Temple of the Roguelike’s Coverage of The 2011 7-Day Roguelike Challenge

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    [46 challengers completed games this year][link]. It’s going to be a long weekend. For those of you joining us late: [What Is A Roguelike?][what] See also: [Reviews of all 50 completed games from 2010.][2010] [link]: http://www.roguetemple.com/2011/03/16/the-2010-7drl-challenge-is-over/ “:: Temple of the Roguelike – Roguelike News, Reviews, Interviews and Information :: » Blog Archive » The 2011…

  • Let’s Help Japan

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    [Panic Inc. is donating 100% of all profits from their software sold today to the relief efforts in Japan.][link] [link]: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/03/lets-help-japan/ “Panic Blog » Let’s Help Japan”

  • Places to Find Phil Nelson On the Internet, March 2011

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    For those of you who have come in late: My name is [Phil Nelson][phil]. I make websites and am from Michigan, the land of the shrinking population. At this point in my life I have been making websites professionally for about 10 years. I have made a lot of fun toys on the internet like…

  • “Stacking” Soundtrack List

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    [A list of all the music found in Double Fine’s wonderful XBLA/PSN game Stacking.][link] I am pleased to learn about the making of this particular sausage. The list / notes were compiled by the music director of the game, Brian Min. [link]: http://www.facebook.com/notes/stacking-video-game/stacking-soundtrack-list/190639134308490 “Stacking Soundtrack List”

  • PNGPress

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    This app is retired. [PNGPress, my simple image optimization app for Mac OS X is now available on the App Store.][link] I hope you like it. PNGPress will accept any number of PNG images dropped onto its dock icon. [link]: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pngpress/id416848846?mt=12 “PNGPress”

  • ‘Financial Martial Law’ In Michigan

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    [I hope you liked that whole democracy thing while it lasted, Michigan, because it’s gone now.][link] Zero-oversight financial managers appointed by the governor will be able to shut down your entire city, get paid whatever they want, and you can’t do a thing about it. [link]: http://gawker.com/#!5781065/michigans-shockingly-undemocratic-financial-martial-law-bill “Michigan’s Shockingly Undemocratic ‘Financial Martial Law’ Bill”

  • Dreamhost CEO’s Heartbreaking Home Birth Story

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    [All you can hope for in this case is that your story stops someone else from making the same mistakes.][link] [link]: http://blog.dreamhost.com/2011/03/09/wren-jones/ “The Official DreamHost Blog! » Wren Jones”

  • Zaarly

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    I try not to cover too many startups here, lest the blog turn into an even lower-rent Techcrunch, but [Zaarly is an interesting idea][link]. They’re building a mobile platform to allow anyone to accept payments for or request assistance for anything. There are many nights I’d have gladly paid someone $10 to go buy me…

  • Universal Pictures Kills “Mountains of Madness” Over R Rating

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    [How can you do true existential terror in PG-13][link]? I can imagine the notes from the studio: “can the giant monster from beyond time be more friendly?,” etc. Luckily for us, they weren’t in charge of the original, and you can read [H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness for free on Wikisource][free]. [link]: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/03/guillermo-del-toro-madness-has-gone-dark.html#ixzz1G2RUV3Lt…

  • d3.js

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    [If your brain can digest this:][link] >D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. As a trivial example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive…

  • The Good Doctor & Friends

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    Hunter Stockton Thompson took his own life on February 20th, 2005. (image via [mildredpickles][via]) [via]: http://mildredpickles.tumblr.com/post/3461391908/have-posted-something-similar-to-this-before-but “Mildred Pickles tumblr”

  • Open Source Ampersands

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    [Single-use site][link] by Mark Pilgrim inspired by Dan Cederholm’s blog post [Use the Best Ampersand Available][dan]. [link]: http://opensourceampersands.com/ “Open Source Ampersands” [dan]: http://simplebits.com/notebook/2008/08/14/ampersands-2/ “Use the Best Ampersand Available”