ppdiv style=text-align:centerspan style=font-weight:boldEpisode 112 - December 3rd, 2008/spanbr / Strong Bad Episode 4, Penny Arcade Episode 2, Left 4 Dead, Valkyria Chronicles, All Things Coop Games, Your Emails and span style=font-weight:boldmore/span!/div/p pdiv style=text-align:centerimg src=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/images/gwjcc.gif alt= class=bb-image //div/p pcentera href=http://media.libsyn.com/media/gwjcc/GWJ_Conference_Call_12_03_08.mp3Right Click Here and 'Save As' to Download!/abr / (A Three Falling 47.7 megs, 1:23:24)/centerbr / centera href=http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=175107566 class=bb-urlimg src=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/images/podcasts/itunes.gif alt= class=bb-image //a a href=http://odeo.com/channel/210663/view class=bb-urlimg src=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/images/podcasts/odeo.gif alt= class=bb-image //a a href=http://www.podnova.com/add.srf?url=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/taxonomy/term/408/0/feedimg src=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/images/podcasts/podnova.gif/a a href=http://add.my.yahoo.com/content?url=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/taxonomy/term/408/0/feed class=bb-urlimg src=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/images/podcasts/yahoo.gif alt= class=bb-image //a/p pa href=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/taxonomy/term/408/0/feed class=bb-urlimg src=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/images/podcasts/rss.gif alt= class=bb-image //a a href=http://www.digg.com/podcasts/Gamers_With_Jobs_GWJ_Conference_Call class=bb-urlimg src=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/images/podcasts/digg.gif alt= class=bb-image //a /center/p pThis week we have an intimate threesome (ewww) as Elysium battles Mephistopheles in the very heart of his recording computer. Coop games, why they're awesome and what can ruin the fun. Plus, rabbit tries to beat the MMORPG horse some more. Stop, stop, it's already dead! I love the fact that I get to write this part./p /ppa href=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/42488read more/a/p

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How in the holy frijoles is it December already? And why do I get the same stressed, panicked feeling every year? And why do I harbor such resentment against those who get their Christmas shopping done early (or prance gaily around their yards stringing up their lights the day after Thanksgiving)?

*deep breath*

The truth is, when I put myself in the mindset of how much I enjoyed the holidays as a kid, I can actually get some of those warm, good time-y feelings back. And having two little kids adds to the fun too. But man oh man, the stress returns every year, as sure as the commercials.

Music, of course, is the key to bringing back some of that positive holiday energy. Since 1994, this collection of tunes has steered the way (or the sleigh, heh). I taped this special off the radio that holiday season. I’ve said this all before, but Bruce Cockburn is a warm, comforting musical presence in my life, and listening to him sing these great songs and play the guitar like only he can - well - it’s better than a fridge full of nog.

Now, Nanci Griffith joins Bruce here, and sings some songs of her own (”Wexford Carol”, “Grafton Street”, “Going Back to Georgia”, etc.). But it’s the Bruce tunes that resonate with me: “Shepherds” opens the show, and has always been a song that pops into my head throughout the year, for some reason: “Glooooooria, in the hiiiighest.” I’m not heavy into the religion, mind you, but when Bruce sings, I’m a believer; “Deer Dancing Around a Broken Mirror”, a spirited and lush instrumental tune; “Huron Carol”, a song written in the 1600’s by a Jesuit missionary to the Huron Indians, and sung in the Huron language. Bruce gives a wonderful introduction, and reads the English translation beforehand; and of course, two favorites of mine: “I’m Gonna Fly Someday” and “One Day I Walk”. Sublime.

Enjoy. And hey, happy holidays, eh? Oh, and always a reminder for you fellow Yanks that haven’t heard of Bruce from the great white north - it’s CO-Burn. Co sounding like So. Ho ho ho.

“Christmas with Cockburn”
The Columbia Records Radio Hour, 1994

Intro
Shepherds [mp3]
Wexford Carol (Nanci Griffith)
Brave Companion of the Road (NG)
Deer Dancing Around a Broken Mirror
I’m Gonna Fly Someday
Grafton Street (NG)
Going Back to Georgia (NG)
One Day I Walk / Intro to Huron Carol
Huron Carol [mp3]
Mary Had a Baby

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It'd already been known that HTC got a little help from the boys and girls at San Fran-based One & Co in designing its beautiful, WinMo-defying TouchFLO 3D user interface along with the Touch Diamond on which it premiered; apparently, HTC likes the result so much that it's snapping the privately-held firm right off the market. One & Co's expertise certainly isn't limited to phones -- its clients span from Coca-Cola to Adidas, Dell, and Palm -- and interestingly, HTC has decided that the move won't spell the end of the design consultancy, so if you were hoping to get your hands on an HTC-designed K2 snowboard, you might just have a shot. We're told that the injection of fresh thought that found its way into the Diamond will ultimately filter its way through HTC's entire lineup, which we're taking to mean Android- and WinMo-based devices alike -- and sorry, G1, but if this means that we can eventually land a Google-powered set with a giant display and some glossy facets on its rear, you know you're getting eBayed right quick.

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

HTC acquires design firm One & Co originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Panzi wrote two texture nodes that were recently committed to the Blender svn repository. He demonstrates their use by creating procedural terrains. Nifty stuff. Panzi wrote: Recently I wrote two tiny texture nodes. They don't do much, just exposing the coordinates (x,y,z) to the node system and a node that calculates the distance between two coordinates (vectors). [...]

I'm a firm believer that designers are makers at heart, but that might just be because I went to design school. The Core77 design blog just published their gift guide (77 items under $77), and plenty of the fancy designer items would make great remakes for the holidays. Designer products are looking more and more maker-y lately, just check out that plunger lamp!

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MySpace has partnered with RipCode to give mobile users access to MySpace videos. The content will be available at MySpace’s mobile site, m.myspace.com, which currently generates around 3 billion monthly page views from 10 million users.

Video will work on the iPhone, T-Mobile G1, BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Storm devices, among others. All user uploaded videos and premium content will be available.

The new feature will use RipCode’s on demand video transcoding service. Videos are transcoded only when requested, into whatever combination of codecs, bit rates and resolutions an individual handset requires.

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David Recordon / O'Reilly Radar:
Getting OpenID Into the Browser  —  Google Chrome did a smart thing: Less.  They unified the search box and address bar, since that's what people do anyway.  That gives us back precious pixels for the only thing that's as important to an average web user as where they're going: Who they are.

James White

I was looking at my YouTube page tonight and realized that there were a few videos I posted while I was in London that I then forgot to put on the blog! The first one, in particular, should be useful to folks.

Now that oil hit $50 a barrel, president-elect turns back from campaign plan to use revenue from windfall profits tax to fund a rebate for middle class struggling with energy prices
• No Colorblind Pick for Obama Seat?
• Obama Cabinet Selections Leave Kerry in the Cold
• Cabinet Picks Dazzle Dems and GOP

It's been on sale for a couple days now (at least in Shanghai), so it had to happen eventually -- you're witnessing the first tentative breaths of a Canon EOS 5D Mark II as it leaves the box. So many manuals to ignore! So many useless composite video cables and driver CDs to fill your drawers! So much bubble wrap to spend intimate moments with! It all goes down at the read link, kids.

[Thanks, Mikha]

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A city in England has installed a "smart CCTV" system, which is claimed to be able to a href="http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/Smart-CCTV-could-put-criminals.4735976.jp"detect certain behavior or incidents/a (via a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/11/28/portsmouth_cctv/"The Register/a) and to alert camera operators to follow up. The system is supposed to give operators the ability to monitor large numbers of cameras at once, more than they can do just by watching TV screens. This type of technology has been around for a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060901/074818.shtml"a little while/a, but doesn't seem to have set the world alight just yet. It's doubtful that these devices will actually make any significant reduction in crime (perhaps predicting and preventing crime comes in version 2.0), and will serve merely as an a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20061027/004715.shtml"excuse/a to blanket more and more areas with CCTV coverage, putting wider and wider swathes of people's lives under surveillance.p style="border-top: 1px #aaaaaa dashed;padding-top: 5px;margin-top: 10px;"emCarlo Longino is an expert at the a href="http://www.insightcommunity.com/"Insight Community/a. To get insight and analysis from Carlo Longino and other experts on challenges your company faces, a href="http://www.insightcommunity.com/"click here/a./em/p br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081130/2330472977.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081130/2330472977.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081130/2330472977op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=655f635ba7a3df0eee3b6a4e98387d2dp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=655f635ba7a3df0eee3b6a4e98387d2dp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=655f635ba7a3df0eee3b6a4e98387d2d" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=6H4xo"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=6H4xo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/473238634" height="1" width="1"/

Six players, including the heart of the Minnesota Vikings' stout defensive line, were suspended for four games without pay by the NFL on Tuesday for violating the league's anti-doping policy.

Remember how “bad” those Microsoft commercials were?  If you thought those were odd and slightly off-putting, you obviously haven’t seen the most recent ads from Ask.com, which are now making the rounds with commentarians asking the same questions they asked about Jerry Seinfeld: “Why?”

“Why is their marketing so random?” asks Harry McCracken.

“Why is their marketing so creepy?” asks SAI’s Dan Frommer.

“Why is the music so sad? Why is she obese? More important: why is she BRITISH?” asks VideoGum.

Harry did accurately observe that the base message being conveyed in the most recent Ask.com commercial is more or less the same as what they started with back in 1996 with AskJeeves, the original moniker for the site.

While I think that the Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft ads could be arguably groundbreaking, in that they were more like sponsored entertainment content rather than traditional advertisement, I have a hard time defending these Ask.com ads. The ads seem to have most pundits and Twitter reactionaries asking questions rather than wanting to try out the service.

Here are the two most recent ads:

On the other hand, those who live “outside the bubble,” so to speak, all seem to have the uniform reaction that the ads are just downright hilarious.

Are we over-analyzing, or are these ads just duds?

The gunmen who attacked Mumbai set out by boat from the Pakistani port of Karachi, then later hijacked an Indian fishing trawler that carried them toward this financial capital on their suicide mission, a top police official said Tuesday.

**I'm not trying to spam, just want to give people the opportunity to get this, and for me to find a reason to use the new Promotional Codes.

Y'all aren't going to buy it anyway so I'll give 20 away for free with the use of Promotional Codes, so first 20 who message me with their email address will get it. The only thing I ask is to leave feedback on the app, whether it be 1 star or 5, just leave honest feedback.
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In my SQL database I have a field that has a value as:
Code: 1000, 1013 This is the code I have:
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{
    $arr = array($list);
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What I want to do is some how get the small list of IDs to return it's real name.

So, for an example, if someone sends a message to 3 people and in that field it will show: 1012, 1010, 1002 and when you view the message i want to be able to return the actual name of the IDs that were inserted. To do this I have a small function that takes that list (shown above) and request the names of the IDs using GetUIDMessages($value) function. Is there a way to do this? Thanks for your help in an advance!

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I've always left my login keychain the same as my user login password. Mainly because it's easier. But I've also read that a lot of people think it's better to have two different passwords.

Anyone have this setup? If so, why? If you never leave your machine unlocked and you have a strong login password, do you really need a separate keychain password?

I'd welcome any thoughts or comments. If I'm being stupid, feel free to tell me.

Thanks.

Phil Windley, in The Conservative View on Guantanamo: “…a position consistent with basic conservative philosophy would argue for human rights and due process — not against it.”

It’s good that thoughtful conservatives like Phil are examining what went wrong with an administration that turned out to be conservative in label and loyalty, but not in principle. Looking forward to more of that.

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For the Rob Zombie mega-fans, Zombie announced today the launch of his brand new official website, which has details on all of his projects ranging from music to film. It also carries a news page and blogspot so you can track his every move (and then report it to B-D). The website is called RobZombieWorld.com and could become a pretty important place to watch if he does end up directing HALLOWEEN II for Dimension Films (still no comments coming in from all directions).