Roy Disney resigns from the board, requests Eisner do the same.
Things are a changin’! From Anaheim to Burbank to Orlando! The next few years will be interesting to say the least.
Archive for November, 2003
LikeChristmas is right around the corner, folks!
If you’re tired of listening to of Christmas Cocktails volumes One and Two over and over, Basic Hip is where you need to be right now.
Starting today through Christmas, they’ll be posting new (old) Christmas albums for your listening pleasure. The guy usually rotates the featured downloadable album each week, but due to the huge amount of swell vintage Christmas music on hand, they’ll be changed up every few days. If you don’t want to miss any, the first rotation happens Monday, so get downloadin’!
The full text of Cal-OSHA’s report on the Big Thunder Mountain fatality is now online. (PDF)
The Warp Pipe project aims to let you play multiplayer networkable GameCube games online. They claim to have Mario Kart: Double Dash working nearly perfectly. A beta is forthcoming.
What ever happened to Kai Krause? He was the internet celebrity who came up with the infamous set of PhotoShop plugins known as “Kai’s Power Tools.” That guy used to be mentioned everywhere. People wrote articles about him and he would do all these interviews. It was crazy. He worked on a couple of other programs, but KPT was by far the most popular (and arguably the most useless!)
He founded a company called MetaCreations which was later sold to a company called Viewpoint. I did a quick Google search for him, but he appears to have completely disappeared from the spotlight somewhere around 1999.
Kai Krause, where are you now?
PhotoShop contests can be pretty funny. This one at SomethingAwful.com had me “LOL”ing for a while.
This particular contest made use of a Flash-based custom tapestry maker.
That free Zelda promo disc? You can only get it if you own two of the following three games:
1080 Avalanche
Mario Party 5
Mario Kart: Double Dash
And since those three games are all brand new, nobody has them, and that means that nobody can get this Zelda disc without spending crazy amounts of money on two games. Thanks, Nintendo!
My problem is that I only have two GameCube games – Super Mario Sunshine and Zelda Wind Waker. I figured that since Nintendo makes them both, they’d have the stupid little registration code inside that I’d need to register them online. Nope!
Nintendo’s got a new promo disc available that includes the two NES Zelda games and the two N64 Zelda games. (The best one – the SNES version – is unfortunately missing!)
I *thought* that the only way to get this disc is to purchase a GameCube bundle or subscribe to Nintendo Power magazine.
JeffC just brightened my morning by telling me that if you register your GameCube and at least two game titles online with Nintendo, you can get it too!
Do it! Note that the link to the registration form on that page is broken. The correct link is http://nintendo.com/productreg.
Cell phone number portability is kind of dumb. I don’t think it’s that hard to give people a new phone number when you switch carriers. I hear people complain about long term contracts all the time, but I’ve never heard any of my friends complain about not being able to keep their phone numbers when they switch providers. But whatever, it’s a law now.
I think the phone companies are being pretty lame about the whole thing. It might be more work for them initially, sure. Their main concern seems to be that a lot of their customers will leave them and jump to a different carrier. Well, so what? You’re one of those carriers, right? You’ll get some of your competitors’ customers, and they’ll get some of yours. In the end it’ll be a wash, and everybody will be right back where they started.
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