Awesome WP find of the day

List of The Price is Right games. It shouldn't have surprised me that they're all there, but I was taken aback to discover them anyway. If you wanted to know the name of the song that the little dude in the Cliff Hangers game sang before falling to his doom, now you know. (Also I totally just deleted half of its "Trivia" bullet list, including a book-length summary of an entire episode of "Harvey Birdman" that had a throwaway reference to the game. Har har.)

So many memories of so many sick-from-school days, right here.

HTML Testbench: first demo

It's worth a personal blog entry, if not a Volity blog entry: Demo of an HTML game UI, running in an HTML port of Testbench. Testbench is otherwise a Java program that Zarf put together a while ago for testing SVG UIs.

This demo is probably boring and meaningless to you unless you're deep enough into the Volity trip to see where I'm going with this.

I am really on fire about the web client and don't wanna work on anything else. But I must! I'll suffer through one day of worky-work and then spend the rest of the week on this. I think I can make Web-Testbench feature-complete and also make good headway in the client as a whole before next Monday. (Yes, I realize I have a presentation to put together, too.) As things are for-real completed I'll announce them on volity.net forums.

Tim Powers: Wikipedia troll?

(Ha har Slashdot-style subject line.)

Speaking of procrastination, I mean Wikipedia, here's an edit I made a couple of weeks ago to the French and Indian War article. As noted, I appreciated the vandal's creativity, which went above and beyond the usual vandal behavior of replacing the entire article with "LOL PENUS" or whatever, but still.

What's extra-great is that the modified text lived in the article for about two hours, managing to survive several (probably bot-driven) reverts, including the removal of another WP user's rather reasonable commentary on the matter.