Blizzard releases a universal binary patch for Warcraft III ROC and TFT.
Blizzard really is the Mac gamer’s BFF. I mean, what other company would do a complete recompile of a four year old product just so it worked well on new hardware? Especially since it already played so well under emulation. AND they release all their stuff simultaneously on both the Mac and Windows.
Thanks!
… this slight mod of the Zune’s logo. Found here.
Today is the day for mail strangeness. First the destroyed UPS package, and now a USPS package that took over a year to arrive.
Sitting on our porch a couple of days ago was a USPS Express envelope with some pictures of my nephews and other relatives. My SO and I remarked at how they must have been from last year, as everyone looked a little younger. When talking to her sister, we discovered that this was a package that was lost in December 2005.
This was mailed on December 21, 2005. It arrived on January 15, 2007. No note of what happened in the meantime, all the contents appear to be there, and it was in remarkably good shape. Certainly better than the UPS envelope.
Bizarre.
Check out the picture below. This is (was?) a UPS overnight envelope that was nearly destroyed by some handling monkeys. Keep in mind, this thing was not torn during opening - it arrived like this, complete with packing tape holding the ripped open top semi-closed, but not the giant gash across the front.
I’ve never received something from them in such bad shape - especially something that had only been in their possession for less than 12 hours. The topper is that the thing held blank checks fresh from the printer. Fortunately they were shrink-wrapped in opaque plastic, so there was some reassurance that some just didn’t “go missing.”
The Sci-Fi channel just announced a six episode miniseries based on Neal Stephenson’s book, The Diamond Age.
Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.
Hopefully they won’t screw this up.
Link to Sci-Fi’s announcement.
R.A. Wilson has died.
Fnord.
That thing completely rocks. If you haven’t checked it out, get your butt over there and check out the demo. Simply incredible. They’re going to get my ridiculous bundle of money once this thing arrives. I can probably even stomach the switch to Cingular (*gag*) to get this hardware.
And I’ve already ordered the Apple TV. Been waiting for this for some time. Finally something decent to hook up to the high-def set that doesn’t involve the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray circle jerk.
Check it out - a new release of all the contents of MAD magazine plus tons of extras (including some great artist interviews) - all for $49.99 - Cheap! The best part is the whole thing is a series of linked PDFs that don’t appear to be limited in their ability to print or make copies of on your local drive.
Includes everything from October 1952 through December 2005. One thing I didn’t realize is that they used to accept advertising - way before they bowed to financial pressures and started including it in recent years. Weird.
Link to Amazon’s page for it.
Make sure you tune in to MacRumors Live tomorrow at 9AM PST to check out what Steve has up his sleeve for us
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Remember the pong clock? Check this guy out: a lust-worthy time-telling pong-playing watch. Must have.
