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NES Alpha Channels

Steve Napierski on how much richer NES games could have been if sprites didn’t have to have a transparency color. The NES That Never Was

Engadget’s Preview of Mountain Lion

Still gotta read this, but you can see that the thing I wrote this morning about how iChat’s potential incorporation of iMessages, and how it feels off, looks like it could get resolved in their new Messages app. The concept … Continue reading

Wine Price Inflation

The Washington Post writes that states in which wine is sold in grocery stores see wine consumption increase and wine prices fall. So now you know why wine isn’t sold in your grocery store. They go on to conclude that … Continue reading

DigitalColor Meter got worse in Lion

Wasn’t there an option here for freezing the display of the RGB values?

“Why not move to web apps?”

I took that quiz for Google’s Chrome OS pilot program. The results put me in desktop land and it asked “why don’t you move over to web apps?” Then I tried to install the Amazon Windowshop app, which presented me … Continue reading

Why Gay and Bisexual Men Can’t Give Blood

On Reddit there’s a Today I Learned about how gay and bisexual men can’t give blood. I know people who feel the decision is homophobic, and I’ve wondered what the argument from health organizations is regarding the decision. I’ve never … Continue reading

Things I’ve noticed in iTunes 9.2

Drag artwork from the artwork viewer to your desktop. Used to be .pictclipping, now it’s whatever the original artwork was (jpg, png, …maybe even bmps or tiffs). When the artwork switches in the artwork viewer it’s all Core Animationy or … Continue reading

Who’s Asking?

This is my biggest problem with Facebook ads. Many ads and sponsored polls are written in a way that make it unclear who’s behind them. If I click this where will I go? What’s going to happen with the data … Continue reading

I had to look up “contrived”

A Message of Inspiration and Warning from my Mother