Don't Mess With The Open Source Bunny
I don't know that Pixar needs be worried yet, but those Shrek and Ice Age cats ought to be worried about Big Buck Bunny, the story of a large, gentle-souled rabbit pushed just a wee bit too far. It's done entirely on Open Source tools (Blender in particular) and, to be quite frank, is [...]
It's Like Anime + Quake. Animake? Quanime?
Lawton, Brad, we have a new mission: recreate the glory days of '98 by way of Warsow. An Open Source FPS based on the Quake 2 engine with all-new, updated gameplay and graphics.
Yes please.
My Nominee For "Nobel Prize For Cunning Commentary (Web Edition)"
Slashdot carried an interesting story today about Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris, claiming that Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) destroys free markets and eliminates companies' ability to "create wealth", a dubious proposition at best, but one which spawned the following insightful comment from one "jbeaupre":
Oddly, I see FOSS as an extreme example of capitalism. Reductio [...]
There's Just No Accounting For Crazy. Or Masochistic. Or Masochistic-Crazy.
As I wended my way home last night, I was listening to this "week's" FLOSS Weekly and just about had to pull my car to the side of the road, due to my sheer astonishment. Leo and Randal had a developer on who was promoting Seaside, a web development framework for Smalltalk (particularly the Squeak [...]
Safari AdBlock: 'Bout Time
Firefox users have had access to AdBlock Plus for ages, allowing them to cruise the Web virtually ad-free. Well, no longer do they have a monopoly on the goodness, for Safari AdBlock (Safari 3/Leopard-only) has been released. It's an easy install and catches pretty much all ads, at least in my thus-far limited [...]
We Only Scored A '6.0' From The Russian Judge
…But still managed to pull out a win in the WordPress iPhone Content contest. Matt Mullenweg announced the results on the wp-hackers mailing list today.
Stephane, Viper and I are super psyched about the win. Our congratulations also go out to Dan and Jared whose entry garnered them some great plaudits as well.
I'll be [...]
A New Version Of WPhone: 1.4.0 Is Out.
Stephane, Viper and I have released a new version of our WPhone Admin plugin, bringing the tally to version 1.4.0. There's a good bit to this version, including bugfixes galore and an all-new plugin management interface, allowing users to enable, disable and manage their installed plugins from the road.
Head on over to the site [...]
