I still haven’t gotten around to buying Ultimate Doom or Final Doom. So, at the prodding of Florian, I’ve started trying certain notorious community projects…
Hell Revealed: I tried this one first. At first it seemed nice; there are some interesting early levels. However ultimately it’s a bit silly in the overuse of things: monsters, switches, lifts, etc. Hell Revealed 2 goes even more overboard, though it was made by different people.
Memento Mori: Trying this one now. So far I’m impressed, especially with certain parts that deliberately echo id levels (such as the secret in Interlock (map 3) that’s a direct echo of Doom 2’s Entryway (map 1).
I just saw on the rubycocoa-talk mailing list that the Cocoa bindings for Ruby WILL be in Leopard. Now that deserves a woohoo!
So the Netrooted Orangeshirts (link warning) have slain the DLC beast. Is this a new event in American politics, or are we just repeating history?
I’ve been a great fan of the television series Law and Order. At least until the spinoffs diluted the show’s quality, I’ve seen most of the episodes more than one time. So often when I’m watching the show, I’ll make a game of it, trying to remember the exact circumstances of the crime as quickly into the episode as possible. Often it only takes a minute or two.
In the case of the Democratic party, I know I’ve seen this party murder before. This is the one where Gene McCarthy got the far left hyped up, motivating them to work so that four years later they got who they wanted for their party’s nomination. Conveniently enough, that was also exactly who the Republicans wanted as the Democratic nominee.
Sure, the Howard Dean scream was new and fun. John Kerry was no Hubert Humphrey though he did play the role on television (Reporting for Duty!). But the movement that’s been building up last few years is the same one that was crashing the gate in ’68. Socialists, pacifists, and cosmopolitans are looking to drive out all Democrats who support a free, safe, and unique America.
So, my fellow Republicans: let’s get while the getting’s good. The Democrats are likely to nominate a real electoral loser come 2008, so let’s do better than nominating a Realpolitiking, wage-controlling liberal, alright?
Also posted at the new Red State.
If I’m late on this, it’s because my normal source for Apple news is Ars Technica, but I only ever get error messages from that site anymore.
Xcode 3. I don’t really care about the IDE, since I don’t use Xcode for my own projects, favoring Ruby anyway, and using Rake and Vim even for things that are using Objective C. But if Interface Builder will be nicer in 3, that’s good, since I do use Cocoa and IB for my stuff.
The big thing though on the developer side is going to be Objective C 2.0. I’ve never really sat down and learned how Objective C memory management works, so having garbage collection available will make me very, very happy.
Spaces. Woohoo! I use Desktop Manager to get a virtual desktop setup here on Tiger, even hacking it up a little myself in order to keep it from hogging half my menu bar (with two 1280×1024 monitors and 8 virtual desktops, it was getting wide, so I set a limit to the width). But this setup has limits because there’s zero OS integration. Apps aren’t aware of it. That should change with Spaces, the virtual desktop manager coming with Leopard, much to my delight.
And that’s all I can find on the Apple website that interests me about Leopard. And that’s fine: At some point the rapid revolution had to slow down. Things are settling in.
I just hope Leopard won’t bring more gray into the Apple world. I hate the amount of gray that already exists in this OS.
Major League Baseball’s basically been trying to kill fantasy baseball by bullying small players out of the market, and then extorting large cuts of profit from the few big players, but the courts have ruled against them. If they’re going to publish stats in newspapers across the country, then people get to use those stats, including the player names.
Good news for people just looking to have some fun with the sport, and for anyone who wants interest in the sport to stay up. This judge just might save MLB from its own nearsightedness.
The Fed’s been creeping up its interest rate by a quarter point (25 basis points) after every meeting of its Open Market commitee with regularity for some time. But at last, the Fed has stopped, and decided to leave things where they are a 5.25%.
It’s a tricky decision, and they really could have gone either way. On one hand, rising oil prices are pushing inflation to higher levels than we’ve seen in quite some time, as seen in recent CPI hikes. On the other hand, rising oil prices are threatening our prosperity, as seen in recently disappointing employment growth rates.
Some people wish that Fed Chairman Bernanke would push us right into a recession in order to whip inflation, but I’m glad he won’t. Let the oil shock run its course first, I say, so our economy doesn’t have to suffer both pressures at once.
Repeating a story as old as Europe, European soccer is singling out Israel for sanctions. Specifically, the UEFA won’t let the Israelis host any matches.
It’s sad that this isn’t even surprising.
The PrBoom launcher on the Mac is getting an overhaul for the next version. The Wad loading is revamped, along with the whole UI:
Drawers should make things easier on people, as will separating out the debugger-oriented options from the user-oriented ones.
There will be no full recount of the Mexican Presidential election. Andrés Manuel López Obrador has lost, even if he won’t accept it, what with him calling himself the President and all:
President-elect Felipe Calderon will have some troubles to deal with, though, judging by this BBC quote:
Mr Lopez Obrador said “peaceful civic resistance” would continue and urged people to take part in a further protest on Sunday.
Supporters chanted “Vote-by-vote!” and blocked the entrance to the tribunal.
“If there is no solution, there’ll be revolution,” they shouted.
But gee, I thought PRI was the Institutional Revolutionary Party, not AMLO’s party.
Alright, time to start watching again. After losing 13 of 14 games, dropping from a second place 46-42 on July 9 to a fifth place 47-55 (6.5 back) on July 26, the Dodgers have rattled off 8 straight wins and climbed back into a third place 55-55 (2 back) with the win last night.
One more thumping of the Marlins will give them an actual winning record again, imagine that!