For the past month, I’ve been working at Amaze Austin (The Fizz Factor) with a small bunch of very talented people on a prototype Nintendo DS project. It’s been fun, but it’s ending.
On Monday I start at Red Fly Studio, just two blocks away from my current digs, as a designer. I’m really looking forward [...]

Epic Games, creators of the popular (understate much?) Gears of War, sent a cease and desist letter to a fan who created a GoW toy for his cousin, as a Christmas present.
Absolutely idiotic.

I started riding the bus to work — parking is too expensive downtown, and it isn’t provided for free at my new office. So I used up the one parking pass I had, and now I commute to work with an abundance of students. My route (the Capital Metro 7) is an interesting one, because [...]

And only my MTV. Why can’t I get it?
Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution seems to have a good idea why.
More plausibly, price discrimination is at work. Consider a simple example with two individuals. John values Disney at $100 a year and FoxNews at $10 a year; Sally has the reverse valuations. Without bundling, the cable [...]

And how to catch them.
Perhaps by the use of a handy Greasemonkey script?
Geoffrey Pullum at LanguageLog isn’t convinced. (Great spelling of Geoffrey, Geoffrey.)
And the comments on LifeHacker are illuminating. One:
Over use of any type of word (or a single word itself) is poor writing.
If this is the case, perhaps we should have scripts which highlight [...]