Other blogs' videos

Here's a haunting video that bassfingers made after photographing an abandoned industrial building. I saw this right before going to bed last night. Delightful!

Another video has the cast of Spongebob Squarepants using their voices inappropriately (but still SFW (wow, you can watch videos at work? Must be nice.)).

Word UIs

I used the word "disinterested" in a blog comment last night, and despite its tiny probable readership I find myself worried that people who do read it will read it incorrectly, that I meant it to mean "uninterested" instead of "taking a neutral stance". I bet dollars to donuts that most users of the English language think it has only the former definition, when they encounter it.

Certain people like to get angry that other people are stupid and English is doomed when they encounter evidence of readers taking the wrong meaning from words like this. And they remind me of nothing so much as hardcore Unix geeks belittling everyday computer users for getting something wrong in a command-line invocation and erasing half their hard disk.

That's right: I'm saying that that "disinterested" is an example of a word with a terrible UI.

No More Heroes?

Anyone I know played No More Heroes yet? All the reviews I find are basically "OMG WII GIBS LOL boo texture pop". I wish to pat the reviewers on the head, they are so cute, but it doesn't really express whether it's worth an L-note to someone who wants a fun adventure game. Also how come nobody says "L-note"? Is it because it sounds a little dirty somehow?

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Speaking of fanboys, if you aren't reading the Gameshelf Blog yet you should. A buncha Gameshelf folks answered the call to register accounts on it, and so far three of us are have made a handful of posts. If the blog averages one post a day over time I'll call it a win. For my part, I'm planning on posting future gamey thoughts to it instead of to this LJ, unless they're not Gameshelfy enough. (Such as my asking whether a super-new-hotness Wii game is worth playing.)