Archive for October, 2005

Norway and open video standards

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Here’s a great post from Cory about open standards and Windows media player, including an exchange with a Microsoft apologist, for those (like me) who only have a passing knowledge of the issues. Norway’s public service broadcaster has launched a video service that is Windows media specific; now there is a debate about open alternatives.

A(nother) game with an event horizon

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Cory posts about “Set: [a] geeky card-game that rewires your brain”

the fiendish intensity of the players was a gigantic warning-sign — this was a game with an event-horizon, something that would suck me in and never let me out again

Where to find it in Paris? I’d like to have it for a trip this weekend.