Forwards from Phil: Jan. 25, 2008
January 25th, 2008 by PhilIt’s Friday! Hooray! Yes, like a Jehovah’s Witness bearing booze and good times instead of pamphlets and guilt, the weekend is a-knockin’ at your door. Won’t you let it in?
In the meantime, here’s what you may have missed.
(Why do we already have a category called “Squirrel!”? Amazing.)
- The first reviews of the hard-drive based MacBook Air are in. I can safely say I think I’m over my brief technolust for the MacBook Air (the final straw was that the touted Drive Sharing technology can’t be used to rip CDs), but it is still a snazzy little machine, if you’re looking for a good subnotebook and live in an area satured by wifi and don’t mind the $99 Superdrive addon, which appears to be necessary. Sadly, we live in Cincinnati, who only recently figured out the Internet is not the devil’s work.
- Were you jealous of the guy in Live Free or Die Hard with his roll-up keyboard? Make your own! Warning: requires disassembling a USB keyboard. Other than that, though, this is pretty easy. Note to self: get extra keyboard from home this weekend.
- As long as we’re on the DIY portion of this morning’s news, here’s a guy who built a cold cathode lamp out of a cold cathode and a metric asston of CDs. Am I the only one who thinks the final result looks a lot like a bugzapper?
- This’ll be relevant to exactly 3 people, and one of them’s me: here’s a script to override any website’s icon when adding it to the iPhone/iPod Touch home screen. This’ll be handy for those few sites I like that are slow to adopt icons - Facebook’s iPhone site, Newsgator Mobile (though reportedly that one has an icon), Amazon.com mobile, and Wapedia.
- Stubbs the Zombie will be returning for a sequel. Good news for me, at least, since I very much enjoyed the first one. It could’ve used a skosh more variety, and maybe a bit more instruction on what the hell you’re supposed to be doing at any given time (that level where you have to break into the walled fortress is a bitch), but all in all a good time.
- Disgaea 3: wtf are you doing? Apparently in addition to all the traditional classes NIS is adding to Disgaea 3, as well as new ones like the martial artists and the berserkers, they’re adding cheerleaders. I give up, Japan, you’re irredeemably weird.
- And second-to-last, but not second-to-least: Smash Bros. Brawl will let you play demos of the games the Smash characters come from. Pictured are Super Mario Bros., Ice Climber, Legend of Zelda, Kid Icarus, Super Metroid, Kirby’s Adventure, and Star Fox 64; it’s worth noting that the Japanese page also lists Mother 2 (aka Earthbound) and Fire Emblem, while the English one just says there are more games to be uncovered. Each of these is a time-limited demo, but hey! It could be fun.
- BONUS ROUND: a special picture from our full-time partner in crime, Burch. We proudly present a lolBurch (who did the work required, took the picture, and captioned himself - what a trooper) that honestly would take too long to explain, so just accept it at face value:
January 25th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh Burch, you LOL me to sleep with your sweet LOLlabies.
Also, I came on here to post about the demos on SSBB, but of course Phil beat me to it hours ago. I’m just happy that I’ll finally get to play some of the games that characters I’d never heard of before Smash Bros. are from. Especially Fire Emblem, when I assume at long last I’ll finally get the question answered: who the hell names a kid Marth?