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You suck, Target

emory — Thu, 23 May 2013 23:23:01 +0000

Well played, Target. Well played.

Now Your Tweets and Your World of Warcraft Gold are Safer than Your Checking Account

emory — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:49:18 +0000

Good news, everyone! Twitter has released a multi-factor authentication service, so while your bank is wide open for business to anyone that steals your password, at least nobody will send a Tweet using your Twitter Machine or buy virtual goods and services in Azeroth! Hallelujah.

That’s weird, you don’t look delighted.

Now Your Tweets and Your World of Warcraft Gold are Safer than Your Checking Account

Thank you Jennifer Hale, for Ms. Shepard

emory — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:34:28 +0000

On the IGN show Up at Noon, Greg Miller sits down with Jennifer Hale to talk about the Mass Effect series, one of many games she has been a voice actor on; and discusses the necessity of having more strong female characters and leads in video games.

I have never played through the Mass Effect series as a male Commander Shepard, partially out of reluctance to be a one-dimensional head-cracking meathead but primarily because Ms. Shepard is just a better character to play.

This video is most predictably a honeypot for raging mouth-breathers like the ones I’ve written about previously, featuring such gems as:

This guy may be a member of the proud, responsible, and not at all insufferable “Men’s Rights Movement” and “Seduction Community”

So feminists have apparently ruined Sci-Fi Fantasy for pasty misogynists everywhere, and the final refuge of the armchair lady-haters is under siege by the horrifying spectacle of women being portrayed as equally capable as men. I am admittedly curious if Theodisc is the kind of fella that needs to reinforce his masculinity every day before he can ride his big wheel on down to the local Game Stop to impress his peers with exciting tales of homophobia conducted entirely on Xbox Live, but not enough to want any contact with someone that may be still contagious with Category Five Stupid. A quick trip to other comments this person has made indicates that it’s a really important crusade he’s on, another practitioner of the proud Internet Warrior Tradition.

If it ruins gaming to have more female characters and to put a much-deserved end the sweaty sausage fest of vidya games, I don’t see any problem with that — You’ll always have Leisure Suit Larry.

Thank you Jennifer Hale, for Ms. Shepard

You may now modernize OmniFocus 1

emory — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:41:08 +0000

An enterprising chap has created a great project on Github to facilitate making OmniFocus 1 resemble OmniFocus 2. This is pretty sweet when you switch between the two frequently.

It doesn’t do anything to make OmniFocus 1′s sidebar behave like the one in OmniFocus 2 of course, it’s merely to refresh the widgets, icons, and aesthetics.

Ah, that’s better

You may now modernize OmniFocus 1

Re-creating dreams in photos

emory — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:27:42 +0000

Ronen Goldman goes to great lengths to transform his dreams into photographs.

Re-creating dreams in photos

Summer Internships on Capitol Hill just got friskier

emory — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:53:40 +0000

Now that BlackBerry Messenger will soon be available on iOS and Android, your Congressmen can easily flirt with their Pages without learning how to use Facebook, Google Talk, AIM, iMessage, Skype, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Lync, Jabber/XMPP or any other messaging system that people actually use.

Summer Internships on Capitol Hill just got friskier

Washington to Capitol

emory — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:46:10 +0000

Taken while hiking up Washington St.

Washington to Capitol

Arrested Westeros

emory — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:37:07 +0000

G.O.B. had not mailed the letter, but in and act of defiance, dramatically hurled the letter into the sea. This proved a more difficult dramatic gesture than he’d anticipated.

Arrested Westeros

It’s the final countdown

emory — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:05:12 +0000

happy birthday, Prudence!

emory — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:06:08 +0000

You’re awesome and I love you.

Celebrating 363 days of greatness.