Assassin's Creed

Well I'm heading out to pick up Assassin's Creed, then playing it after watching Pushing Daisies tonight. Kristen Bell better show up in the first 10 seconds of the game or I'm really gonna be angry! Check back tomorrow for impressions of the game that is really dividing reviewers!

Blogging for Business

Crain's has an article up exploring the concept of businesses using blogs as marketing tools. I guess that's the blog culture now, full of people looking to share information, and some people just looking to sell you shit.

More than 70 million blogs populate the Web today. Many read like personal diaries, with angst-ridden musings about relationships or wild nights out. But thousands of blogs — no one is sure how many — are written by entrepreneurs and
corporate leaders to connect with current and potential customers. These bloggers tend to write about industry issues, or excitement and dilemmas within their own companies.

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Obama and the Internet

Found this on TechCrunch:

A key reason the Internet has been such a success is because it is the most open network in history. It needs to stay that way. Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet. Users must be free to access content, to use applications, and to attach personal devices. . . . Because most Americans only have a choice of only one or two broadband carriers, carriers are tempted to impose a toll charge on content and services, discriminating against websites that are unwilling to pay for equal treatment. . . . Such a result would threaten innovation, . . . It would also threaten the equality of speech through which the Internet has begun to transform American political and cultural discourse.

Good to see that candidates are viewing technology as a real issue in the upcoming election

Mario Galaxy Impressions

So after an infuriating trip to Best Buy who no longer has games on shelves but rather stored in some huge case that nobody ever seems to have the key to and let's not even cover what the employee asked me when I asked for Super Mario Galaxy (Hint: What system is that for?)

So on to the game:

The visuals are pretty sweet considering this is a Wii game and the kinda sparkling nature of everything fits into the whole "in space" theme the game si going for. Controls are spot on except for one part I will mention in a second. I've completed the first set of galaxies which are just collections of small planets that I'm sure you've seen in previews. I'm working on collecting every star (120 like in Mario 64) so the game should take me a little while to beat.

The worst part of the game thus far has been this sting-ray surfing level in which you twist the wii-mote to control mario surving in obscenely wavy waters with no ledge so you constantly fall to your death because twising the wii-mote has the character driving like my grandpa after too many drinks!

I only put a little over an hour into it but so far I'm enjoying the hell out of the game. Expect a review when I finish it and some impressions on Assassin's Creed tomorrow morning!

Biting the Hand that Feeds You?

Tvguide reports that Seth McFarlane, creator of Family Guy is warning the Fox network that airing this coming Sunday's episode of the hit show will be a "colossal dick move" and damaging to the pair's already strained relationship.

Strike solidarity or biting the hand?