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Friday — January 13, 2012

Not a chess guy myself, but what a great interview!

via ChessBase.com - Chess News - Magnus Carlsen – ‘I don’t quite fit into the usual schemes’

via Kottke

Permalink Tags garry kasparov Tags chess Tags life Tags games Tags decisions Tags philosophy Notes 21 notes

Thursday — April 14, 2011

Flash on Android: Look but don't touch →

Neil McAllister writes a damning review of the state of Adobe’s Flash Player as available for the Motorola Xoom running Google’s new Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” tablet OS. However, I think he was trying a little to hard to be fair when he explained:

On the plus side, claims that the Flash Player drains battery life seem to be mostly unfounded. I didn’t find it consumed much more power than your average game, for example.

The same as a “game”?!? And that’s not perceived as a lot?!? Games on my iPod touch drain the battery at an astounding rate. Even playing Angry Birds: Rio makes the back of my iPod noticeably warm to the touch. I can watch several hours of video on my iPod (without CPU heat, btw)… but I’m lucky if I get even 90 minutes of “average” gaming without looking for a place to recharge.

And let’s remember where Flash is supposed to be. On the web. So the closest comparison would be if you’re simply out surfing the web, reading the news, whatever. In that kind of comparison test, I’m willing to be an iOS device would outright trounce an Android device with Flash Player enabled in terms of just visiting the top 50 web sites over and over. Think of all the Flash ads out there everywhere.

Still, McAllister’s final word on the subject does ring true:

But you know what uses even less power than the Flash Player for Android? Not installing it.

Permalink Tags comparison, Tags flash Tags android Tags honeycomb Tags performance Tags battery Tags games Notes 1 note

Wednesday — January 12, 2011

Z-Type is the most fun you’ll have practicing your typing skills. Blow up the baddies by spelling their names. Act fast before the bosses start shooting back!

Permalink Tags games Tags flash

Thursday — October 14, 2010

From LensCulture:

The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery. Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize.

And so a lifelong love affair with the shooting gallery begins. This series documents almost every year of the woman’s life (there is a conspicuous pause from 1939 to 1945) up until present times.

At the age of 88 Ria van Dijk still makes her pilgrimage to the Shooting Gallery.

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