This Saturday, in Los Angeles, there will be a midnight showing of “Transformers: The Movie”. No, not the Michael Bay pieces of crap, we’re talking the original 1986 animated film that many people in my generation consider a beloved and seminal piece of work…so of course I’m going. 
(Thanks to my friend Josh for the tip on the screening, BTW, which you can learn more about here if you’re in LA).
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Since I can’t think of an article to write today, I’ll post a question to y’all, if you don’t mind. I have a lot of friends who are of opposing sides to this argument. Some feel cloud computing isn’t secure enough to trust with their data. Others, like me, who put all of their information in the cloud (I bow to my new overlords, Google) so they can access it everywhere.
In my own case, all of my calendar, email and contacts are through Google, so I can access them anywhere, and I really like that. I don’t really have a trust issue with Google for some reason — I think I’m way too small a fish for them to care about what info I have stores there as long as I click on their ads — but I can see where folks might.
So, let me ask y’all. When it comes to your data, whether it’s your calendar, your contacts or whatever else, would you trust it to the cloud or not, and why? I’m looking forward to discussing this with you. Thanks for reading!
Say what you want about the controversy surrounding the secondary gaming market, whether you agree that it takes money away from developers or feel it’s just a great way to save money on games, one can see it’s not going away any time soon. Now, according to Gamasutra, two major retailers, Target and Best Buy, are both entering the used game market. This is freaking huge, as it opens up the opportunity for retailers to make more money on games, and opens up opportunities for customers to save money on games.
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One of my favorite gaming franchises is the Worms series. If you’re unaware, it’s a game wherein you take a team of heavily armed worms — armed with a variety of weapons from baseball bats to shotguns to explosive sheep — and try to defeat other teams of similarly armed worms. Besides weapons, you have many tools at your disposal to move around, such as ninja ropes, jet packs and so on. The silly nature of the gameplay plus the variety of violence that ensues is both hilarious and exciting. For ages, Worms was strictly a 2D franchise, until they tried to make the game into 3D, which was…less than successful. Thankfully, the folks at Team 17 have brought the game back to its 2D roots with Worms Reloaded.
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For over twenty years, Microsoft’s Flight Simulator series of flight sims dominated the civilian aviation simulator market for personal computers. Hell, it helped start the genre way back when after buying the license from SubLOGIC, who sold the original Flight Simulator in 1980.
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Gotta thank my friend Mike for this one. Apparently on the World of Warcraft forums, someone was complaining that the appearance of the Malestrom area in their upcoming Cataclysm expansion didn’t look “epic enough”.
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I am an unabashed fan of Batman and DC Animation. If a show or movie has been released that has anything to do with Bruce Timm, Paul Dini or Alan Burnett, I own it. That bias aside, I was very excited when DC Animated announced Batman: Under the Red Hood. I’ve not read all of the Batman comics, but the series involving the Red Hood was always a gripping yarn of a tale, so I knew the movie would be good. I had no idea, however, that it would be THIS good…
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I talk to a lot of people on any given day, whether in person at work, or through various technological implementations. While back in my day — which was a Tuesday — there were only a couple of methods to communicate with people not in the same room with you…namely the telephone or a written (gasp!) letter, these days we have so many more options. Email, IM, text messaging, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, chat rooms and so much more. I’m finding that, for example, I’m using the actual phone part of my phone so much less and less than texting, instant messaging, email and so on.
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According to an article on Ars Technica entitled, Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use”, the Library of Congress has added a bevy of new exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act altering the way we’re allowed to use much of the digital media and devices we have.
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There’s one main reason I went to see The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. I mean sure it was done by the same folks who did National Treasure — which I loved — but that wasn’t it. I wanted to see how Dresden Filesey it was. What do I mean by this? Well, look at this still from the movie and this book cover from one of the Dresden Files books. See where I’m going? It was with these moderate expectations in mind that I went to see The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, so please read on to read what I thought.
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