What I'm Playing Now: Cogs

I picked up Cogs this week on a recommendation from Braid author Jon Blow, and it's more puzzle mayhem (which I wasn't ready for after Puzzle Quest, World of Goo, and Braid - I actually wanted a break from puzzling).

It's only $10, and it's pretty fun. I'm fond of steam achievements, but there aren't very many of them to earn for those of us that aren't completely OCD:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197993331175/stats/Cogs

I wonder if part of the fun of cogs is the persistent steampunk theme so often posted on my favorite blog, boingboing: http://www.boingboing.net/steampunk/

Current Music: New Kid In Town

Country music is mostly pretty bad, with some notable exceptions, including classic Eagles:

Brilliant design: folding power plug

This is just brilliant engineering: not only does the designer make this plug form factor tiny, it produces great auxilliary options with USB slots and power squids:

Zelda in 3D

This guy is porting the original "The Legend of Zelda" to a 3d engine for windows. For those of us raised by NES, this is pretty cool. Unfortunately, all I get is this screenshot (an accurate rendering of the 1st labrynth) and a binary that crashes each time I run it. :(

Link:

http://www.offworld.com/2009/07/one-shot-the-legend-of-zelda-i.html

Seam Carving: when do we get it in-browser?

It seems to me like it's about time that our web browsers supported seam-carving, and it's about time that JPEG & PNG supported advanced seam-carving metadata.

I guess the corollary to that argument is that Firefox and Chrome are open source, so I'm supposed to just write the code instead of complaining about it. The video is impressive.

Seam Carving for content-aware image resizing:

I bought a house

They tell me it will look like this when they finish building it:



It'll be fun to snap a picture post-construction and see how well the artist's rendering matches the actual finished product.

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Am I wrong to think this is hilarious?

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