I can't wait for Super Monkey Ball Deluxe to come out for the Xbox. It's still three months away, but I want it now. In case you've never played it on either of the GameCube variations, here are some screenshots and an explanation of what makes it so much fun. The party games in it are great fun, and it supported 16:9 widescreens on the GameCube, so I'm guessing Sega will do the same on Xbox.
I'm guessing most of my readers don't need this (with the possible exception of relatives), but John Dvorak has posted a guide to reading and understanding weblogs. [via Scoble]
UNI is now advertising to fill an Information Technology Specialist position at the Iowa Waste Reduction Center:
NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's degree in management information systems, computer science, business, or related field plus at least one year of web-based database and networking experience required; virtual reality and programming experience preferred
This article from George Ou is an alarming way to start the morning. It details the new attacks on the WEP protocol, which is known to be broken, but was generally assumed to be “good enough” when rotated often. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case, so we need to look at moving to the next generation of encryption on our Wireless LAN ASAP. In an educational setting such as ours, however, this is a little trickier, I’ve got about 750 clients spread around campus, and I can’t get that many users to turn on a dime. To make them even grumpier, this is going to “break” a lot of older wireless hardware which is sure to bring the college students out with their pitchforks and torches. In other words, I’m already having a bad day…
There are a lot of stories of bad scientific research and downright fraud in this story from The Guardian, but this was my favorite:
But the winner was a hair-straightening treatment by Bioionic, called Ionic Hair Retexturizing: "Water molecules are broken down to a fraction of their previous size ... diminutive enough to penetrate through the cuticle, and eventually into the core of each hair". Shrinking molecules caused some concern among the physicists at the ceremony, since IHR was available just 200 yards away, and the only other groups who have managed to create superdense quark-gluon plasma used a relativistic heavy ion collider. The prospect of such equipment being used by hairdressers was deemed worthy of further investigation.
Yeah, I'd really love to know how they can take two hydrogen atoms, one oxygen atom, and then shrink them into a smaller version of themselves...
[via Slashdot]
