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You’d think that Mensa, being an organization comprised solely of intelligent people, would have at least one able web designer in their group. Oh well.

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Imagine a backdoor which gives you full read and write access to all addressable memory.
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James and Intel only release the partialfragments that they feel will make them look “Open”.

— elegy [ corzhg@sasil.in ]

Let’s talk about Apple’s iPhone for a minute. From everything I’ve seen, it looks to be an incredible piece of technology. It’s going to shift paradigms, reinvent wheels, think outside of boxes, blah blah blah. It’s still calling itself a phone, and I think that’s a mistake.

While climbing down Masada, Bonnie and I indulged ourselves in an extended conversation on mobile devices, from cell phones to PDAs to Smartphones. We agreed (!) that Smartphones (like the Blackberry and Sony Treo) demonstrate the current generation’s obsession with “always on” internet tech, and that all modern mobile tech is heading toward the same eventual conclusion: the ubiquitous portable device.

This device is best compared to the portable Knowledge Navigators in Serial Experiments: Lain — devices that are, interestingly enough, based somewhat on the Apple Newton. Our conversation on Masada turned out to be quite topical, as Steve Jobs would announce the iPhone several days later. The iPhone very closely resembles the ubiquitous portable that I’m predicting, except that it seems reluctant to call itself anything other than a phone. And “phone,” in my opinion, is a very limited — and limiting — nomenclature.

I understand that it’s a marketing strategy. Everybody wants a phone; not very many people want portable NAVI’s, but the result of the iPhone’s branding is that it by itself won’t kill the idea of the phone. I’m in a bit of a gray area, so let me be clear: our future is in devices that connect us, without prejudice toward any one type of connection. These devices can do audio, but they do text as well, and images, as well as other forms of data, and there’s no emphasis on one form of communication over another. The iPhone reinforces the notion that phones are the center of communication, rather than expanding our understanding of what communication is.

I’m sure Apple still has a few tricks up its sleeve regarding its newest family member. We’ll see what comes our way before June. I’ll be a happy Scott Jon if, in the next ten years, we can retire the word “phone” from our daily vocabulary.

Returned from Israel early yesterday morning, and my time has been mostly spent in recovery: recovering the sleep I lost on an overnight flight; recovering my health after getting sick in the Negev; recovering the data lost when my hard drive failed.

Regarding Israel, the short answer: it was pretty incredible. Long answer later. My laundry smells like salt and sulfur.

My computer’s in Maryland for repairs, so I’ve been bouncing back and forth between using the Wii’s web browser and my parents’ computers to get my fix for the last several days. I’m having trouble keeping up with the internet, but I guess that’s a good thing.

Bonnie and I are playing a little game of switcheroo, with me taking her place writing Playing Dirty this week, and her taking my job writing Off the Grid for the next. My column, entitled “The Queer Hero,” should appear on Joystiq sometime this Thursday. Lord knows I’ve been writing it in my head for long enough.

I just sent off my scholarship application for GDC 2007. I haven’t exactly figured out how I’m going to get there, but I know I want to be there. Very badly. The scholarship means a lot to me, which is probably why it was so hard to hit the “Submit” button. I want this scholarship. I don’t know what else to say about it.

Finally, tomorrow I leave for Israel, which is mostly scary because I don’t think I’m entirely aware of it yet. My body’s not acting like I’m leaving the country. It’s only eleven days, but I still feel like I should feel some kind of tension or anxiety. I’ll feel better when I don’t feel so good.

The trip itself is going to be incredible. I’ll write about it once I return, and once my PowerBook returns to me.

Maybe it’s because my own life doesn’t involve exciting activities like fishing, home furnishing, and paying off mortgages. Maybe it’s the silly idea that, somehow, I can make a living wage by shaking trees. Or maybe it’s the column deadline I’m up against, an upcoming trip to Israel, the failure of my computer’s hard drive, and a handful of other things that I’m distracting myself from.

Yeah, that Animal Crossing: Wild World is pretty addictive.

Awesome. Not only do I get to repeatedly turn my laptop on and off again, hoping that this time it’ll boot up completely and allow me to backup my files, but I also get to drive to the closest Apple Store (about an hour away), and argue with the resident Geniuses about why I shouldn’t have to pay for repairs again if the repairs I paid for the last time obviously didn’t do a damn thing. Sweet.

(Note to self: I owe Bonnie a quarter — hell, probably a fiver by the time I get this sorted out)

Love because the bunnies had me at hello. Hate because of pretty much everything else. Rayman Raving Rabbids was a great concept that deserved more development time than it got.

ATTN: Ubisoft Montpellier – Please fix the broken minigames; make more multiplayer-centric experiences; clean up the interface; design longer shooter levels; rely less on the nunchuk; improve on the “dancing bunnies” concept. In short, make the whole game as insane as those videos I fell in love with, and less like a franchise title rushed to launch (and it wouldn’t hurt to get rid of Rayman, either).

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I had a chat with some of the Java team at Sun; check back later for a report.

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Realistically Microsoft will not kill Flash, but it might give it some competition, which I would welcome.

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