I've recently started exploring some Augmented Reality toolkits, and I got to say that for now I -really- like ARToolkit: An open source toolkit, which is very easy to set up, and I'm astonished at how good it is.
If you want to fool around with AR, be sure to give this package a go. Very easy to set up, and the results are amazing.

Only downside (imho) to this is that, for now, it only supports .wrl 3d models (VRML 2.0): But other than that, the source is very cool to modify, and I've been able to let it run (albeit slow) on my N900. Still a lot of work to do though.

Call of Duty: Activision Warfare

On a more serious note: I'm feeling a bit doublesided about the whole debacle of Activision firing Jason West and Vince Zampella: On one hand it's a shame to see that two apparently talented developers are so easy to fire, on the other hand: They brought this onto themselves when they decided to sell the company to Activision.
If they'd done some proper research they would have seen how horrible Activision has been treating their studios/games the past few years (loads of developers have been fleeing to other publishers), so this shouldn't come as a surprise.

I still can't understand why IW choose to let them be bought out though: They were/are a very succesful studio, and they sold for a very low price. Sounded like a dumb move at the time, and after hearing about the incredible sales figures for CoD:MW2, it sounds even more stupid that they've taken that step.

Sorry, I'm from the UK here :)
T-mobile and Vodafone both carry this phone (with excellent packages I might add: I'm currently on a 2 year contract, 20 pounds per months for 300 texts, 300 callminutes and 'unlimited' internet)

But as said: If you have the chance, certainly have a look at this phone.
I decided to not go with the iPhone (though I love its intuitive interface), as I don't like their restrictions with regards to getting your own software/third party software on there. I think this motivation was a blessing in disguise as the N900 is the same, if not better than the iPhone with regards to interface. With its 4 desktops, plenty of customization possibilities, this is every tinkerer's dream-phone.
Damn, reading back this post, I -should- get paid by Nokia: I look like a damn ad! ;-)

The N900 has also recently received a port of IOQuake3: Have a look at their site for more details.

If you're looking for a very nice (open) phone, I'd go with the N900. No, I'm not from Nokia, just a -very- satisfied customer.

What was that RMS was saying again?

"Oooh, there's something eatable in between my toes: Shall I eat it?!"

Or were you referring to another quote of him?

Nice post there: Completely devoid of any bias towards Microsoft/Windows...

Ok, let me turn off my sarcasm-mode first.

So why the negative article about this? All the users knew beforehand that the free trial would end one day: Saying that it's "nagging" the user to pay up, is nothing more than using some fine choice of words to make it look bad on Microsoft.
Seriously, there's lots of other stuff that you can slack MS for, and you have to do it for this?
Also, you got to love the 'it will shutdown without a warning'... but it warns you from the 15th of February...

Next up: Adobe nags the users after one month of using their trial software. Oh, the horror!

If Infinity Ward are so insistent on improving the variety of our experiences, they don't have to do it at the expense of the experience that many of us already love.

With the game almost having made 1 billion dollars, it seems they can pretty much do anything they want: The people will buy it anyways.
For myself, I've decided to boycot the game as I don't agree with dedicated servers, and absence of player-created content. I wish only more people would actually hold to their (announced) boycot...

As for the RPG elements (which I think is an improvement in some FPS games), I think this mainly has to do with creating the same 'addictive' elements that MMORPGs have: As long as you keep dangling that carrot in front of the players, they'll keep playing.

Ahright. Never thought of that: That makes sense. Thanks for the answer :-)

Can anyone here clarify what robots.txt stands for, as in:

Is it an 'agreement' to not scan the site at all (by a search engine bot), or is it meant to just not -display- those results in the search engine?
I'd assume, since everything on a site is more or less public, that it would be the second. And if so, I can't see anything wrong with what Microsoft's bots did.

I can see how scanning a site's content (even if you're not going to list the results in your search engine) can have some value to a company.

Sounds a lot like the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPQ1XrllZmA&feature=player_embedded>Streetfighter II video(s) they did.
Very well done. Although not that good, it certainly is a nice idea.

The second one can be found here

Both are excellent comedy imho.

As far as I've heard, the so-called terrorist was just the son of the king of Nigeria, who was -finally- able to flee the country, after he succeeded to get all his money transferred to foreign banks by sending out those emails the past few years.

I assume the fireworks was just to celebrate his escape... I hope he's also going to finally pay my interest he promised, when I helped transfer those 100.000 dollars.

I'm not saying that the game is not enjoyable now it's missing gibs/corpses, but to defend that it -is- as it's meant to be is bullshit.
They censored it, and as such it's -not- as the developers made it, and wanted the public to play it.

And what about the software? I'd assume that at least some good 3D modeling package is involved, and an editing suite. I think you won't get far with 300 dollars to get decent software (and no, Blender won't cut it ;) )