Darwin Award Winner punches a window trying to break into a house of someone who has a restraining order against him. We can only hope more burglars do the same.

Psychonauts doesn’t work on the Xbox360 (Link Dead)I would like to point out, however, that Psychonauts works just fine on the PS2 and will likely work perfectly on the PS3. Just sayin’…Did I mention that the PS2 outsold the Xbox360 last month? Well, you should be able to find one then. There’s at least 3x as many PS2’s (100mil) as there are Xboxes (24mil) and Xbox360’s (5mil) combined…

One of the more useful functions for busy peoples in MythTV is TimeStretch. There are certain shows that I like to watch at higher speed (with the pitch shifted to compensate.) Mostly they’re shows with low entertainment value for the time. Some of the stuff on the Discovery channel is like this. It’s informative but not really entertaining. Usually I can watch these at 1.5x and still absorb all of the information in 2/3rds of the time.

anti-bandwidth-neutrality (Link not really the same anymore) cartoon I found advertised on Schlock Mercenary today. It seems to offer much the same view I came up with (independently) several weeks ago and clarifies stuff I didn’t even touch on. Like the separate queues for Low-latency loss-tolerant connections (streaming video, phone, etc) and for high reliability low latency (medical communications.) I believe it would also allow queues for latency tolerant high-bandwidth loss-sensitive connections like downloads.

MS has really been on the warpath against the PS3, both in public and from the shadows. The latest has been this particular bit of FUD that restates many of the same things that MS has been saying all along and Sony has been disputing all along. Sony isn’t entirely innocent of firing back though. The PSM magazine had this bit of FUD in it as well: ….particularly when it comes to ease of development for the system: how it compares to PS2, and more importantly, Xbox 360.

Greenhouse studyThe interesting parts are below:Well, I heard that carbon dioxide is bad – it’s pollution, isn’t it?There seem to be a few things that your informant forgot to tell you – like carbon dioxide being an essential trace gas that underpins the bulk of the global food web. Estimates vary, but somewhere around 15% seems to be the common number cited for the increase in global food crop yields due to aerial fertilization with increased carbon dioxide since 1950.

Or at least another rumor log on the fire. FF7 (Dead Link)

Nintendo’s comments (Link dead) say that their Gameboy console has sold 120 million worldwide and that it was the top selling console of all time. I’m kind of curious as to which of their consoles are rolled into this fact. Where do you draw the line on what is the same console or not? If you go strictly by the formfactor and generation, there’s no way that any one of the gameboy line has produced 120mil on their own.

I was first intrigued when I read the headline of this article: New policy lets students skip class, still pass. (link dead) I’ve long been an advocate of a class structure that would allow students to progress at their own pace, and to be graded not on Busyhomework* and Attendance, but rather on final exams and meaningful projects. I was quite disappointed when I realized that it wasn’t the result of this that they were able to pass, but because of people gaming a system that had so lowered the bar that they couldn’t fail.

(link is dead) “You have to have Sony everything. That’s not always going to be the best choice for people, simple as that. The iPod is creaming them in the music business at the moment, and I think that’s a classic example of where, if you lock yourself into one hardware company, you’re limiting your decisions.”I don’t think I have to tell anyone familiar with Microsoft’s tactics how amusing this is.