Benny Ling's Bling

PC Modern Warfare 2: it’s much worse than you thought

Benny Ling — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:36:26 +0000

We thought the lack of dedicated servers was bad, but now we can add the lack of console commands, the inability to have a say in who hosts the game, a lengthy pause while the game migrates to a new host if the currently selected host quits, no leaning, no option to record matches, and [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-08

Benny Ling — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Red Alert for iPhone has been released. $12.99, but I'll wait for reviews before I take the plunge. http://bit.ly/S0unI # Why does @Wordpress for iPhone show the previous post's title when composing a new post? Possible bug? http://twitpic.com/nyd4d # Hello, Zero KB available. Let the swapping commence! :S Gotta free up some disk space, stat. # So, GoodGame hosts [...]

OpenOfficeMouse: The Multi-Button Application Mouse for OpenOffice.org

Benny Ling — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:40:15 +0000

The OpenOfficeMouse includes default profiles for the five core OpenOffice.org applications based on 662 million datapoints compiled by the usage tracking facility incorporated into OpenOffice.org 3.1. These profiles can be easily customized to suit the user’s preferences using the included OpenOfficeMouse setup software. The setup and customization software is an application that will be released [...]

Ian Fisher : American Soldier

Benny Ling — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:37:10 +0000

Dec. 14, 2008. 4:49 p.m. Smoke rises from trash being burned at Camp Echo. The past three days have brought many complaints from Ian: shoveling dirt, sitting in the maintenance bay, picking up garbage. This is how an American soldier is made. For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver [...]

Why do we have an IMG element?

Benny Ling — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:35:34 +0000

That’s not to say that all shipping code wins; after all, Andrew and Intermedia and HyTime shipped code too. Code is necessary but not sufficient for success. And I certainly don’t mean to say that shipping code before a standard will produce the best solution. Marc’s <img> element didn’t mandate a common graphics format; it [...]

Reflections on Blogtober

Benny Ling — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:05:52 +0000

Blogtober was great. For those late to the party, Blogtober 2009 was, as far as I can tell, a scheme to get bloggers like me to post something on their blog, at least once per day in October 2009. For the most part, it worked well. It all started when one of the people I follow on Twitter [...]

Left 4 Dead 2 demo – Censorship Comparison

Benny Ling — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:10:55 +0000

Video Comparison Between The Uncut version of Left4Dead2 and the Australian “Low Violence” version According to the classification board report, the modified version removes considerable amounts of gore from gameplay. The board notes that the game no longer contains depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment, the report said. No [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01

Benny Ling — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0000

I have completed all the study I wanted to do today. (Actually, is there such a thing?) In any case, bring on Borderlands tomorrow! # Less than 12 hours to go till Borderlands! I'm gonna spend the WHOLE DAY playing. Feel free to join me, @ashlaws, @csimps0n, @neg2led etc # Managed to stumble through [...]

The 3 Phases of Owning a Computer

Benny Ling — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:37:14 +0000

via The 3 Phases of Owning a Computer – The Oatmeal. Phases 2 and 3 after the break.

Hey Jude Flowchart

Benny Ling — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:17:05 +0000

Best flowchart ever? I think so. via kung fu grippe : (via thememegeneration). This post part of Blogtober 2009, a post a day, yada yada yada.

Honda – The Cog

Benny Ling — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:42:11 +0000

This WebRidesTV video is a commercial made by Honda to showcase the Honda Accord. It is a two minute video that shows Honda Accord parts interacting with each other similar to a Rube Goldberg machine. via YouTube – Honda – The Cog. Like Apple, everything just works. This post part of Blogtober 2009. Might have something else later.

For verbal diarrhoea.

Benny Ling — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:32:22 +0000

Spotted on Level 4 of the Centenary building at the School of Computing and Information Systems, UTas. Pure genius. This post part of Blogtober 2009, where I post something on my blog every day. If you’re reading this from Posterous, why not read my actual blog instead? You’ll find it at: http://www.bennylingbling.com/ Posted [...]

Borderlands, Steam, and one screwed up release date.

Benny Ling — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:43:57 +0000

Yep – the above image was pretty much me at 6:30am this morning. (Image credit Whirlpool forums) Having done lots of study the previous day to make up for what I had hoped was going to be an excellent day of FPS/RPG fun, I was greeted with the words “Pre-load complete; unreleased” when I looked at [...]

Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

Benny Ling — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:30:36 +0000

A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). via Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful. Click to embiggen. I’ll admit that it was this diagram that finally made me understand the difference between right and left [...]

So, I met Matthew Reilly yesterday…

Benny Ling — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:24:01 +0000

…and I don’t feel special for it. I think something has to be said with regards to this – Matthew Reilly, of all people. It’s not that I don’t think he’s a literary genius – I do, he’s absolutely brilliant in all respects, it’s just that, well, it didn’t lack the “sparkle” I was expecting. I’m not actually [...]