So, Altitude appeared during a free weekend while poking Portal, and it's a rather well-done multiplayer merge of Apricots1 and Skyduel2, a type of game I'm quite partial to. For less than the price of lunch, and thus limited risk of loss-and after an awful lot of scowling at Valve's hideous terms and trying to find a way to pay that didn't involve ( Read more... )

I am getting really, really tired of Opera updates needlessly changing everything around. Apparently, in 10.53 (c.f. 10.10), the default monospace font has been overridden back to Monaco, and the meaning of shift in shift+cmd+click for "open in new [background] tab" has a) toggled b) stopped respecting the preferences ( Read more... )

Hurrah. The ECS network is now behaving enough that I can post this and the images might work.

Hokay. First up, all I'm going to say about the general 'buzz' is to link to this. Second up, the answer to "what is Google's super-secret evil scheme behind this", given that free love is hardly a business case, is probably economics. Web application ( Read more... )

and I want to cause it pain.

The JavaScript torture chamber is open for business. If you know me, the browser which fared best in my opinion will be no suprise to you. The browsers which fared the worst, and second from worst, might be ( Read more... )