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I will be participating at the For the Kids charity event in about 12 hours or so.  I am hoping those of you who actually read my updates, can check out the marathon on the live stream and maybe even contribute a little cash to the cause.  The event is run by a good friend of mine and this is the 3rd annual event.  All proceeds go to the Child’s Play Charity.

Stream goes Live 5/5/2012 at 12PM EST.

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Just doing my part

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Watching this, there are some interesting ideas and directions proposed.  I will believe it when I see it, but  will say he does know how to GTD.  Also, I  like the TED/College Lecture style presentation.

NO SOPA

Tonight the internet goes on strike.

You too can do your part.

http://americancensorship.org/

I’ve censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet–a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit:

http://americancensorship.org/posts/38928/uncensor

www.███████████.net is now on ██████

Creepy Photo is Creepy

Use 10 of these photos as images for my blog posts.

Buzzfeed has a terribly funny set of images up today that I love.

Check them out below, and expect a few as header images.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/60-completely-unusable-stock-photos

Acid Oasis

I just finished working with my friend Steven on This Book project of his.

Did some editing, moral support, and research of publication.  But he did most of the work.  Good job man, let’s hope people love it as much as I do.

Found this by accident, felt like sharing:

http://www.carbohydrom.net/music/song/sword-of-hope

I havn’t touched this blog in a long time, mostly due to a lack of things to say that were not of an entirely personal nature, and a focus on personal growth.  It’s been a long year for me.  Regardless, recent events have gotten me stirred, in a particularly programming and infosec direction.  However today I bring an event that I just have a lot to say.

It has to do with the power of blogging, the internet, and the voice of the individual. I have noticed in recent months that Penny Arcade (hell,  the internet in general) gravitates towards drama and controversy. I saw many months back that a rape joke, the infamous dickwolves incident (best summarized and documented elsewhere: see below) caused a line of Penny Arcade products to both simultaneously exist, and vanish. I find it interesting to watch as Penny Arcade is now poised in a similar position in regards to the avatar controllers.

Its amazing how much clout a simple web comic can have.  Then again Penny Arcade has expanded into so much more than that. A video series, hosting other pages and other artists. Merchandise to fuel the company, and a Convention that rivals E3.  In the end however, its just a few people, who really made gaming part of their culture, and who seem to really are about the people who make up their fanbase.  It seems that it is this concern is what drove Mike from PA to jump into the fray and post the email thread to the world.  It will be interesting to see how his calculated move impacts both ales of the controllers, as well as the industry in the future.

I have collected a few links below that do a great job of displaying and summarizing this story.

Dickwolves incident timeline:

http://debacle.tumblr.com/post/3041940865/the-pratfall-of-penny-arcade-a-timeline

Penny Arcade Post Regarding the Customer Service Emails

http://penny-arcade.com/2011/12/27

Ocean Marketing Twitter Feed and @mentions (stratagy? really!?):

https://twitter.com/#!/OceanStratagy

https://twitter.com/#!/search/%40OceanStratagy

Examiner investigates Ocean’s Eleven mistakes… or whatever:

http://www.examiner.com/video-game-industry-in-national/ocean-marketing-gaming-pr-rep-to-avoid-at-all-cost

April 1 2011

I will post links to the awesome posts I find throughout the day:

XKCD NOW IN 3D!

http://xkcd.com/#

Gmail Motion, does it support kinect?

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

Woot selling bags of crap all day!

http://www.woot.com/

Angry Nerds?

http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerds

Youtube 1911  edition?

http://www.youtube.com/

Its an amazing sight here in the city.

I’ll update the final snow height in the morning.

NYC Blizzard December 26 2010