Behind Enemy Lines: Five Questions for a Niners Blogger

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Behind Enemy Lines: Five Questions for Ravens Bloggers

Our friends at RightOffRussell.com wanted to trade some football talk with us about their hometown Ravens. You can read the answers to their questions about the Jets … including ones on the QB, Sexy Rexy and much more on their site. Enjoy. 1) Inquiring minds want to know … are you wacko for Flacco and the rest of this offense? Of course! How can you not love the old uni-brow? Flacco has taken some lunps in practice but he is also showing more poise and confidence. Cam Cameron is expanding the offense and Flacco will be the one making it happen. Plus, have you seen what he can do with a clay pigeon? 2) The Jets raided the Ravens defensive unit by taking three players off the roster in Scott, Leonhard and Douglass, are the Ravens going to feel those losses during the course of this season. [lien] [EN]

Behind Enemy Lines With Velvet Assassin [Preview]

Gamecock's upcoming Velvet Assassin, in development by Replay Studios, has an intriguing premise - the protagonist, Violette Summer, is based on the actual life of British secret agent Violette Szabo during World War II. In the game, Violette is a secret agent on her own behind enemy lines. It's slated for a Fall release on Xbox 360 and PC. A war story influenced by real-world events that prioritizes stealth action? Sounds like a certain other title that I can't take my eyes and hands off of lately, so I was eager to get a look at Velvet Assassin today. galleryPost('velvet01', 3, 'Violet Assassin Screens'); Violette's story is told through flashbacks and memories - in the opening of the game, she's in a hospital, remembering back on her career, and in the scene I saw, Violette was sneaking through the sewers and up into a Warsaw ghetto under patrol by Nazi soldiers. [lien] [EN]

Question of the Day: Do You Prefer Self-Checkout Lines? [Question Of The Day]

For an impatient geek there is nothing...NOTHING more annoying than standing behind someone in a grocery store that has the audacity to write a check in the 21st century. That is why I head for the self-checkout lines. Generally, only those brave enough to tackle the machine and handle the pressure of nerds staring them down choose this option (athough I have seen people use checks in self-checkout—the ultimate horror). Even when I have quite a few purchases, I would rather scan it myself and avoid any unnecessary human interaction. But what about you? Do you prefer self-checkout over manned registers? Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you're viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser. [Image via Sickpuppy's Flickr] Read More. [lien] [EN]

Question Tool at Sourceforge

The Question Tool (AKA The Question and Answer Tool) is a Berkman-built, JZittrain-invented, open source resource for letting a backchannel come up with, discuss, and rank questions which then might be discussed in the frontchannel. It works well. Now it’s being made available through Sourceforge.net. Gene Koo blogs about it here. And you can run it as a Web service right now here. [tags: open_source berkman] Categories: education [lien] [EN]

Daily (Intermittent) Open Ended Question (DOEP): Why bad food?

Why do some economically well off cultures have good food and others do not? Wouldn’t making good food — by which I mean delicious food that you love to eat — be a prime directive of every land? They’ve had thousands of years to work on getting some great recipes down. After all, there are poor cultures that have great food. So, why do entire cultures screw up this most basic of human pleasures? EXTRA CREDIT question: Last night I gave a talk and afterwards was taken to dinner (thank you very much for the food and conversation) at an Italian restaurant at which every dish had at least twelve ingredients: Rare roasted veal stuffed with striped bass crusted in romano crumbs roasted with fennel basted in onion pate fried in the oil of squid grown in olive oil and fed striped bass found inside the gullets of ocean. [lien] [EN]

Weekly Digest: Catching Up, Speaking San Francisco, Future Post Mixup, Talking to Blogger Talks, and More

Yikes, it’s been a rough few weeks. Along with some nasty business stuff, which is actually normal in my line of work, I was supposed to be on my first real, non-working vacation in 14 years, which turned into a workation. What should have been normal was much less fun than usual as my husband just watched on while I crouched over the laptop in our beautiful room called the The Starseeker Room at the Inn at Manzanita on the Oregon coast. We really were looking forward to experiencing what a real vacation was like. Well, maybe next time. Add to the mixture of my “fun” weeks, WordPress.com updated their server and experienced a glitch, releasing weeks of blog posts on Lorelle on WordPress ahead of schedule. So yes, I am now blogging via a crystal ball from another dimension and the blog posts you see in your feed reader have future dates. [lien] [EN]

Two questions for Google Maps

Google Maps now (well, I just noticed) lets anyone add a place marker that is visible to all other users. Their example is a spot in a SF park where there’s open air dancing. I’ll be interested in following two questions: 1. How will policy evolve to handle abuse and edge cases? 2. How will the system be hacked? 1. What controls is Google going to have to introduce to keep maps from being polluted with markers such as “Best pizza in town,” “Marcie the Slut lives here” and “[enter your choice of slur]town”? As of now, Google lists two types of controls. First, some listings are protected, either because they’re hospitals or government buildings, or because the owners of a business have “claimed” the listing; Google does some form of verification before awarding ownership. [lien] [EN]

Unfortunate subject line

I received an email with this subject line Jewatch 2008 Wondering how I got on this particular spam list, I clicked on it. Turns out it’s spam for the Je-Watch jewelry exhibition in Saudi Arabia, under the patronage of HRH Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz, Governor of the Eastern Province. Whew. [Tags: misc ] Categories: misc [lien] [EN]

Dark Knight - Review and two questions

Saw it last night. It was that or its polar opposite: That ABBA movie. It left me oddly unsatisfied — odd given its virtues — the way professional wrestling does. The plot has no natural momentum, which is disappointing given that it was written by the folks who brought us Memento and The Prestige, two movies driven by strong plot ideas and ornate, wonderful plotting. Instead, it seems to be a movie written by The Joker, the principle of chaos. So, you’re left with booms, beatings, and a dark mood. It kept my attention without actually being entertaining, and I came out feeling worse than when I went in. I also came out with two questions: 1. I found the car chase (ok, so now I spoiled it; there’s a car chase) hard to follow. It wasn’t the worse of the shaky-cam extravaganzas we’ve seen in the past few years. [lien] [EN]

FlyClear: Cutting in line so the terrorists won’t win

At the Reagan Airport (would I be jumping the gun to start calling it the Obama Airport already?), Clear has a little square of space right before the security inspection stations. For $/year, you can skip the long lines and go for the exceedingly short line to Clear. There the uniformed employees will compare some of your body parts (iris and fingerprints) with the information on the Clear card you present. Once you’re through, you can go straight to the Conveyor of Transparencies where you rejoin the hoi polloi so that the TSA can make sure your shoes aren’t on fire. What I don’t get is why Clear has to give you an extra special biometric scan. Why can’t they just do what the TSA folks do - Look at your drivers license, look at you, and wave you on through? All I can figure is that Clear’s market research showed that people would be more willing to pay to cut in line — which is what Clear is really about — if there’s a pretense that it enhances security. [lien] [EN]

As Daddy Bloggers Attract Readers, Marketers Follow

Mommy bloggers, move over. It’s daddy’s turn in the spotlight. Many mommy blogs have gained avid followings. The blogs, like Dooce and The Pioneer Woman, are full of stories, often quite funny, written by mothers about raising children and other topics. Recently, fathers have been getting into the game, too, with blogs like DadLabs and Dad-O-Matic. Marketers quickly discovered the value of a post about their product on a mommy blog and started sending mothers free products to use and review. Now, brands are catching on to daddy bloggers as well. Last week, Sony started a three-month campaign with daddy bloggers. It will lend a few of them Sony products, like Blu-ray players and Handycam camcorders. Sony is asking the bloggers to use the products to do projects. [lien] [EN]

Bush administation stands by Saudi blogger

From CNN: The Bush administration has brought its concerns about the detention of a well-known blogger to the Saudi Arabian government at “a relatively senior level,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Thursday. Kudos to the Bush administration. Every now and then it gets one right. [Tags: bush blogs saudi_arabia ] Categories: blogs, digital rights, politics [lien] [EN]

Introducing Peter Moore: the blogger

Filed under: News After years of abuse from the blogosphere (including plenty from around these parts), Peter Moore has decided to join the enemy and become a blogger ... in a manner of speaking anyway. First of all, Peter won't be joining the ranks of video game journalism, but will instead be posting for the benefit of the EA Sports community. Second, it's not a dedicated blog per se, but more of a glorified forum post. Still, Peter Moore will be taking regular chunks of his schedule and dedicating them to communicating with the masses. Entitled Inside the Game, the blog serves as a soap box for Moore to share whatever his heart desires. In the first installment of the blog, his heart desires to go back in time and get the Patriots to win the Super Bowl. He also takes some time to mention FaceBreaker and take a few good. [lien] [EN]