Archive for the 'Nerd Alert' Category

URLs, UGA/Athens Style

Friday, August 31st, 2007

While reading about the UGA Pharmacy school scandal today, I couldn’t help but notice the URL of the Red and Black’s story: http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper8… media.www.redandblack.com, huh? Because the Red and Black is independent, I really can’t say, “Only UGA would come up with a URL that dumb,” so instead I’ll settle for: Only an Athens website would […]

Williams Pinball on the Wii

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Mike Fahey reports in Kotaku (where I [somewhat begrudgingly] get all of my Wii news) on the upcoming Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection: I have to say that after playing through several balls on good old Pinbot, I am spoiled for virtual pinball on any other system … To get an idea […]

Two Types of [Nerdy] Allure

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Briefly (hah!..?), today’s Featured Article at Wikipedia is the Wonderbra. I must confess that I haven’t read the article, but I congratulate the team who pushed this article up to the level necessary to be featured on the front page. Reading the debate about whether to feature it may be entertaining enough. And, from […]

Poor Form

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

I listen to TOPcast, a really great pinball podcast. Clay, the host, is extremely well-informed, and his interviews with people in the industry (or who were in the industry) provide great source material for my pinball wiki project. It may be hard for some of you reading this to believe, but there is […]

A Brief LuaCore Tutorial

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

I’ve been playing with Gus Mueller’s LuaCore, which allows you to run and interact with Lua scripts from inside a Mac Cocoa application. It’s very helpful, but unfortunately the included “TestApp” is pretty simplistic and doesn’t demonstrate much more than simply executing code with LuaCore. Since I had a little trouble getting started, […]