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As I’ve been playing with MythTV, Ubuntu and the like for a year now, I keep coming up with the idea of an open source game console. I’ve figured that someone would have thought of this before, but, I can never find anything on the interweb about it. My idea is (relatively) simple: come up with a list of hardware and a Linux OS that can play games out to a TV/HDTV/Monitor. The kind of games I’m talking about are the quick arcade games (Extreme Tux Racer), RPG (Westnoth), fighting (Paintown), etc. I’m not sure exactly what games, but, the eventual goal would be for teams and indies to make games that run on the console. Maybe even a way to buy games via digital distribution. ...

This looks like the best use of a Nintendo DS until Final Fantasy Tactics DS comes out. As Susan Arendt wrote on Wired’s Game|Life: Disney is currently field-testing the use of DS Lites as an interactive tour guide and map for its Magic Kingdom resorts. Most brilliant idea ever? Quite possibly. Having just come from Disney World, I know how helpful it would have been at the park. A small screen to tell you how to get from Laugh Floor to PotC as quick as possible or where to buy a Rice Krispy treat would have been awesome. ...

The episode in Port Deposit Maryland aired last night. My co-workers and I went up and helped on Day 4. I was on the team that built the plane. This is a link to the project. BTW, the thumbtacks as rivets…that was my idea. So was moving the flight sim gear down. The designer wanted the screens to be up by the windshield but I told him it was too cramped and the kid would get eye strain. ...

After 10 years of using a product, you can still learn something…this helped me today with a rather dumb Flash problem. How to Get Flash AS2 to Display Italicized HTML Text | rabidGadfly

An article about trying to run a blog while sailing off the coast of Mexico. It’s sounds hard but not impossible. Sailboat Blogger Vies for Seaside Broadband

This is more of a note to myself: I used my friend’s SCORM conformant Flash template that he created in late 2005/early 2006. He stopped using it in a SCORM LMS and then added the code to prevent the ActiveX control from appearing in IE. I started a project last year with it and just got the files back “assuming” that I could plop it into my LMS. Unfortunately, the version of flashObject (1.3.c) he used since moving away from the LMS blocked the setValue calls from the Flash movie so it wouldn’t pass the score. It wasn’t until my other colleague recommended I use a newer version of flashObject, swfObject 1.4.4, that it worked. ...

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A short post on a company that has licensed EA’s Madden franchise and combined it with their own technology to use the game to train new plays. Another great example of using games for learning. Game | Life - Wired Blogs

It’s sailing season again in the lovely Baltimore Harbor. Here is a re-post from mere weeks after I learned to sail. Hopefully, I’ll add to them before my ASA 103 Course. In preparation for classes and shunning all of my multimedia instructional technology skills, I made a pdf of flash cards that contain important sailing terms for beginners. I’m sure there are WAY more terms, but this is my first downloadable thingy for people. ...

While I was ego surfing checking for links to my site, I found this lovely review: 1 green downloadIn our tests, we found downloads on this site were free of adware, spyware, and other unwanted programs. I scored a 0 out of 10 on the nuisance meter...I think that's good. They were referring to my sailing terms flash cards.