Mac clone customer

Mac clone maker Psystar has a customer, and it's not shy about letting folks know about him.

- Forbes (link here)

It is going to be interesting to see Apple's response.

Grand Theft Auto IV

The highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV video game, an action-packed shoot-'em-up thriller, hit store shelves this morning, prompting a storm of blog chatter and a lots of finger-pointing from critics who call the game violent and crass.

"It's just a crude, crass, disgusting, violent game," said Melissa Henson.

- Star Tribune (link here)

Yet another reason to buy a PS3.

Cheap Mac clones

A Florida-based firm advertising cheap, Mac-compatible systems running on standardized hardware has created a swirl of controversy this week--and drawn an angry response from one of the principal hackers involved in developing the software involved.

- zdnet (link here)

Why buy an expensive Mac when you can get a cheap clone instead?

It reminds me of the good old days when you could buy a cheap Russian-made Apple IIe clone. The keyboard lacked an "escape" key.

Mighty Trees

http://www.mightytrees.com/

Educational card game that looks interesting.

Juno

A pro-life film that is written and directed with consummate professionalism: Juno is a winner.

- Spencer Warren, American Conservative Union Foundation (link here)

Maybe I should see it again.

My first impressions were much less positive, but the soundtrack was outstanding.

VirtualBox

innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

- http://www.virtualbox.org/

GameStop

Grapevine-based GameStop Corp. seems to have found the economic equivalent of the cheat code.

The world's largest stand-alone game retailer is roaring into 2008 after a record 2007, seemingly oblivious to the economic slowdown that has shackled many other retailers.

"I would never take the position that as a company we're totally recession-proof," said chairman and chief executive Richard Fontaine.

"But I would certainly bet on the video game business."

- Dallas Morning News (link here)

Firefly MMO game

http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/loadFeature/1874

Editorial on the maybe upcoming Firefly MMO game.

HandBrake

http://handbrake.fr/

Open source, multi-platform DVD to MPEG converter.

Richard Widmark

He [Richard Widmark] played a rabid racist in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "No Way Out" (1950), an obsessed prosecutor in Stanley Kramer's "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961), an authoritarian Cold War Navy destroyer captain in James B. Harris' "The Bedford Incident" (1965) and a tough New York City police detective in Don Siegel's "Madigan" (1968).

- LA Times / Denver Post (link here)

Of the few Richard Widmark films that I have seen, The Bedford Incident is my favorite.

I have watched it several times, and never get tired of it.

Rock Band / Guitar Hero III guitar

http://www.engadget.com

PS3 guitar that works with both Rock Band and Guitar Hero III.

BattleLore

http://www.boardgameswithscott.com/?p=54

Thanks to Andrew for calling my attention to this one.

Very interesting board game with an emphasis on melee.

Inkscape

http://www.inkscape.org/index.php?lang=en

Open source scalable vector graphics editor.