http://www.puredigitalthought.com Corrupting the World One Byte at a Time Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:21:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, you know I love playswitch.com because of all of the great games I've gotten. I recently took a look at their commercials which are also available on YouTube. This one is just hilarious. http://www.puredigitalthought.com/2008/04/03/commando-competitive-fly-zipping/ Sarcasticgamer.com has posted a video spoofing the Battle Field: Bad Company game. Give these guys your support and listen to their podcast. It's actually really good. http://www.puredigitalthought.com/2008/03/31/boycott-of-bfbc-video/ Sarcasticgamer.com's Lono is staging a boycott of Battlefield: Bad Company. The game is another attempt by EA to suck more cash out of gamers who are already paying $59 for a game. DLC is supposed to be something that allows you to add more great content to the ... http://www.puredigitalthought.com/2008/03/28/boycott-of-eas-battlefield-bad-company/ So I've been trading games on playswitch.com and I've been trading like a madman. Here's a rundown of the games that I've gotten and the number of SBucks I got them for which is virtual dollars (1 SBuck == 1 USD). I've purchased some SBucks but most of ... http://www.puredigitalthought.com/2008/03/26/march-madness-on-playswitchcom/ Okay, I never thought I'd say "Thank You" and "Microsoft" in the same sentence. But after today's post on Major Nelson about the Gamerscore Corrections for Cheaters I just feel I have to say "Thank You". It's good to see MS kicking cheaters in the rear. It's ... http://www.puredigitalthought.com/2008/03/25/thank-you-microsoft/ I was really surprised to see that both DreamWorks and Paramount have exclusively picked HD-DVD as the format for their movies. The reason cited is because of the cheaper players that are available. The XBox360 player can be purchased for $180 and standalone players are less ... http://www.puredigitalthought.com/2007/09/05/two-big-hd-dvd-wins/ I kept running into a problem where I would try to restart apache and in error_log I would get a message stating: [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... Apache would just appear to hang for minutes. Stopping and restarting would result in the same thing. I looked around ... http://www.puredigitalthought.com/2007/09/02/apache-hangs-on-digest-secret-generation/ IBM's World Community Grid has teamed up with scientists at UTMB in Galveston, Texas to help search for drugs that can cure a family of diseases such as dengue fever, West Nile encephalitis, hepatitis C, and yellow fever. The project is called "Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together". The ... http://www.puredigitalthought.com/2007/09/02/west-nile-distributed-computing-project/ Oh nine, eff nine, one one oh too! Nine dee, seven four, eee three, five bee. Dee ate for one, Five six, See five, Six three, five six, ate eight sea oh! [as seen in a slashdot comment] http://www.puredigitalthought.com/2007/05/02/ode-to-dcma/ I got this email from the Video Game Voters Network and I wanted to pass the info on to help increase awareness. This is copied verbatim from the note. ================================================== Inform Capitol Hill and Help Share the FTC Report Findings In a recent report on entertainment media, the Federal Trade Commission commended ... http://www.puredigitalthought.com/2007/04/24/federal-trade-commission-supports-video-game-self-regulation/