I’m George’s Blog

On the last necroburgerkingexpress south into the darkness of suburbia after a great night out with a subset of the MLA family

• Nickel-and-Diming Downloadable Content Is Gaming’s Future [Blockquote]
• Mail online: The fake shopfronts built to cover-up abandoned shops in recession-hit high streets
• Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology
• Carol Bartz Fesses Up: The Yahoo Ad Campaign Flopped (YHOO)
• REVEALED: Facebook’s 2009 Revenue Breakdown
• How to Effortlessly Remove People from Photos
• MacHeist NanoBundle
• Insane Asylum Inspires Lovecraft and Batman Then Becomes A Residential Community [Image Cache]
• Backpack Power Plant: You ARE the Grid [Energy]
• The Best Google-Yahoo Comparison To Date [Block Quote]
• Cellphones Become Our Comfort Objects During Disaster [Image Cache]
• Apple’s Trying To Store Your Video in the Cloud [Itunes Cloud]

• Carol Bartz Shoots A Subtle Dig At Facebook On CNBC, Asks “What’s Their Revenue?” (YHOO)
• Media Molecule Officially Joins The PlayStation Family
• AT&T Ditches Google For Yahoo Search on Motorola Backflip [At&t]
• RedEye Mini IR Transmitter Transforms iPhones Into Universal Remote Controls For $49 [Universal Remote]
• Now Google Holds a Location-Based Advertising Patent [Patents]
• Mortgagestrategy: 80% of under 30s need help to buy a home
• FT.com Tests PayPal To Rake In Paywall Fees
• Chatroulette, by the Numbers [Voices]
• Yahoo Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary: Now, Is It Finally Time to Buy AOL as a Gift to Itself? [BoomTown]
• Apple Sues HTC For Infringing On 20 iPhone Patents: The Complete Documents [Apple]
• White Chocolate Ice Cream…and Ralph
• De-Icing the Freezer? Use a Water Balloon!
• A recessed Bertby display cabinet
• iStubz
• Pikol discovers The Eye of The Colossus
• 5D Mark II Firmware Announcement
• LittleBigPlanet reaches two million user created levels
• Days Get Shorter Because of Chilean Earthquake [Science]
• Fancy Math Allows For Near-Perfect Enhancement of Poor-Quality Images [Math]
• Firefox’s Chrome Ceiling [Chart]

Panorama stitching software has really improved since I last used it in 1999, I guess it has been 11 years.

Just been introduced to http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/ It is funny because it’s true! (via @fellowshipofone)

• OMNI+ Brings Modern Entertainment Home
• Telegraph: 100,000 council jobs could go as funding from central Government is slashed
• Security Expert: No Computer Is Safe, Especially If It Has Flash [Security]
• Hydrofloors’ Swimming Pools Belong In the X-Men’s Danger Room [Swimming Pool]
• James Lear Design
• The Wrath of God This Weekend [Data Visualization]
• Aim For Two Markets And You Might Get None
• Your Toaster Is Watching You (Again!): McKinsey’s “Internet of Things” Report [BoomTown]
• Google Must Take New Street View Photos Every Six Months In UK, Or EU Regulators Will Be Mighty Unhappy [Google]
• Netgear’s Universal Wi-Fi Internet Adapter Connects Consoles and TVs Alike [Wi-Fi]
• It’s D-Day For Facebook Developers
• FT: Traders build up record bets against sterling
• XE.COM: Get out of sterling!
• Aperture 3 Review
• The Grand Adventure launch week starts tomorrow – new blog, new site, new competitions, loads of prizes
• Twitter Rolling Out New Web Site To Kill TweetDeck And Other Third-Party Clients

• UK Bill Would Outlaw Open Public Wifi Hotspots [WiFi]
• Yahoo Is Getting Very Efficient — At Dying
• The Times: Bewildering flights of fancy

• All U.S. Android Phones Reportedly Getting the Bump to 2.1 [Rumor]
• Child Workers Discovered in Apple Factories [Apple]
• How To Watch The Hawaiian Tsunami Live Online
• Companies Should Take Cue From Piracy, If They Want To Be Competitive
• Nintendo DSi Uses Camera Face Tracking to Create 3D Mirages [3D]
• Bulb Candles Wax the Watts [Lighting]
• Market Watch – Wall Street Journal: Says quotes in press release falsely attributed to him

Endless Ocean 2 is rad. A vastly underrated series, if you have a Wii and like to relax, buy either of them (v1 is cheap and v2 is better)

Evening plans ruined by Southern Rail and the closed Victoria line. How can 12 miles turn out to be so far away?