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July 2, 2008

Looking to Sell

Now that I’ve finally made it back into my own room I’m going through a sort of late spring cleaning phase. I have a lot of stuff that’s just been sort of… sitting around, and I don’t have any particular use for it anymore. It’s still probably useful to somebody, though, so I’m kind of interested in selling it off for whatever I can get. Anyone out there have any suggestions as to what the best place to put stuff up for sale would be?

E-bay and Amazon are the two options I’m most familiar with, and E-bay is the obvious choice, but I’m wondering if there isn’t something better out there. I like Amazon’s fee structure for selling stuff, but I’m also curious as to wether I’d actually sell the stuff if it were listed on Amazon; they don’t exactly go out of there way to show user items that are up for sale, even if they themselves don’t have the item in stock anymore.

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Mindomo

I’m not sure why I haven’t mentioned it sooner, but Mindomo is a Flash based mind mapping application. I’m using it now to organize my Maikeru On Game notes, and it couldn’t be simpler. The interface is modelled after the Office 2007 ribbon, so if you’re at all familiar with the latest incarnation of Office it shouldn’t take any time to get used to. Even if you’re not familiar with mind mapping or Office 2007 the learning cruve is almost nonexistent. If yuo’re looking for a useful brainstorming tool take a look.

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June 24, 2008

Rated M for Moronic

I’ll stop link whoring soon, I promise. In the meantime, check out this article at Ars, which talks about some new video game legislation that’s a few steps behind the industry itself.

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June 23, 2008

Living in the Past

James Berardinelli has a great post on movie studios, copyright violation, and why a lot of what the MPAA says doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

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June 18, 2008

Spore Creature Creator

The full version of the Spor Creature Creator is available today. I haven’t really been keeping up with Spore to well; it was first revealed way back in 2005, and for whatever reason it never fully caught my attention.

It’ll be launching this September now, and EA has just released the Spore Creature Creator today. Looking at it now, the idea behind Spore it pretty impressive: you take a single-celled organism and guide it through it’s evolution from protein microbe to creature. Then, your creature can multiply and form tribes, which eventually progress into a fully-fledged civilization. Then, your civilication can explore an entire galaxy filled with four billion plantes populated by creatures created by other players.

That’s awesome.

Having brought myself up to date on Spore, I had to get the Creature Creator. It’s basically a sandbox tool for creating Spore creatures; I assume it’ll be included in the full version of the game, but it’s available now for $9.99, which isn’t bad if you’re not totally sure about this hole Spore thing. There’s even a free trial of the Creature Creator if you’re extremely cheap, which includes about 25% of the total pieces you can use to build your creatures.

So instead of looking for a job like I should be doing, I’ve been playing with the Creature Creator most of today. It’s a lot of fun; there are just enough different pieces to keep things interesting without overwhelming you with options. And you can come up with some outlandish things. The Piranhapa pictured above is one of my more interesting constructions, but even it only scratches the surface as far as outlandishness goes. It’s downright tame I dare say.

If you’re completely lost about this whole Spore thing, check Wikipedia and download the trial version of the Creature Creator. You owe it to yourself.

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