Played single player reg through til completion and while it was as polished as you’d expect from the Modern Warfare franchise it failed to eclipse the heart-pounding immersive nervousness of the original’s ghillie-suit level. Also the kablamo’ed White House scenario seemed to be lifted straight from COD5’s Reichstag finale. Ditto with the staggered progression as seen from the eyes of US Army Rangers and their SF counterparts. Personally I find that sort of storytelling disjointed and a distraction.
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Google appears not to add pages that include the rel=”nofollow” meta attribute by default.
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Dodgeball
This is what happens when the big G ventures outside of it’s tech stronghold: Tech invents something better and Google is left wondering why it got itself into some arcane mysticism it never really understood in the first place. Dodgeball, social networking on mobile before smartphone-based GPS services went nuclear - it even used SMS. Bless.

Google Answers
Two for the price of one here, as Google Q&A was a forerunner to Answers, and whose comedy value is far more interesting. Not today’s Q&A app that very few of you may be aware of, but an old web0.1 version whereby users emailed Googlers who responded for a fee, presumably with some answers. We never found out for sure though, as the service only lasted 24 hours. Nothing like fail fast, fail often eh Google?
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Let me begin by saying I don’t want this blog infected with politics.

Notwithstanding this fact I wish to proceed momentarily by injecting a healthy dose of the political clap.

We want entrepreneurs vs we want more of the same.

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phrase of the week: digital triumphalism << the lording over people who don't grok has got to stop. Especially on Twitter

M$ celebrate launch of Windows 7 with pre-installed zombie mode

looking for a new typeface for the web but don’t want to force the user to download new fonts or waste bandwidth on fugly images? The 80s has your answer my friend
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best site tagline

look just build a fucking football stadium on it

strewth!

cool retro branding but way too much web2.0 nicey nicey fuck you thricey metaphor use
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First the good one. I didn’t really know what to expect from Barcamp Derry and from the spiel delivered online was hoping that was the correct way to approach it. Half hour sessions organised in 3 concurrent ’streams’ meant the first 5 minutes of each was largely spent loitering in the doorway of each until one grabbed enough attention take a pew.

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Worrying developments, When I criss-crossed the Tajik-Afghani border last month the tense atmosphere was palpable. Tajiks largely ignored what went on 100metres across the river - or pretended to at least.

8bit choons

javascript game engine

Yahoo Pipes outputs serialised php. All they need to do now is open up the pipe creation process to an api and we’re in business.

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All cool little diversions. And none requiring you’re friends to install any 3rd party contraption for the network dimension to be of use. And I’ve come up with my own - seeing how many of the rich and famous I can add to my network. (more…)