This Made My Day

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The robot who considers towels (via Kottke)

It’s such as shame that Patrick’s site is a framed Flash mess (I can’t even get it to load). Bloggers will be posting uploaded versions of this left right and centre but I doubt he’ll get much attribution. The fact his site doesn’t even feature on the first results page of a Google search for ‘Patrick Jean’ is telling.

Incredible stuff. Wikipedia has a brief rundown of how the technique works.

I hope Adobe realise that everyone will now expect this to ship in CS5.

Bringing Steam to Mac will give gamers several cross-platform benefits, Newell said.

If players already own the PC versions of Valve games, they’ll get Mac versions at no extra charge through a feature called Steam Play.
By using the Steam Cloud feature that the company introduced in 2008, players can save in-progress games online, then call up those saved games no matter which version they’re playing. If you’re playing Half-Life 2 on your home PC but then head out on the road with your MacBook, you can continue your game-in-progress.

And they’ll run natively, not through emulation.

Wow. This is huge.

Bringing Steam to Mac will give gamers several cross-platform benefits, Newell said.

If players already own the PC versions of Valve games, they’ll get Mac versions at no extra charge through a feature called Steam Play.

By using the Steam Cloud feature that the company introduced in 2008, players can save in-progress games online, then call up those saved games no matter which version they’re playing. If you’re playing Half-Life 2 on your home PC but then head out on the road with your MacBook, you can continue your game-in-progress.

And they’ll run natively, not through emulation.

Wow. This is huge.

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