Camera Shake Is Not Realistic In FPS

August 17th, 2008

In some FPS games the players view will move slightly from side to side (or up and down) when walking or running. This is known as “camera shake” or “headbob”, a so-called “feature” that is supposed to add realism to the game. The most extreme example that I’ve seen is in S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Shadow of […]

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Cap’n, We Just Got Hacked!

August 15th, 2008

I checked my blog this evening and discovered that every page redirected to some stupid malware site (offline now, was http://scanner.antivir64.com/?aff=1050). It was immediately obvious that I had been hacked. Fuck, that’s a first. Emergency Measures It took me about 30 minutes to get the site back to normal and start investigating. WP 2.6.1 has […]

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Finding Interesting Websites via Google Trends/PHP/AJAX

August 11th, 2008

I have created a PHP/JS script that will let you enter a list of sites and use the Google tool to analyze the sites and generate a list of related websites – a kind of recommendation engine. For example, if you enter a webcomic site A you will probably get a list of other webcomics B, C and D that are also enjoyed by people who read webcomic A.

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Random Linkage Day

August 8th, 2008

I’m busy with an AJAX+PHP+Google Trends experiment this week and I can’t bring myself to write a complete post, so here’s a random assortment of interesting links instead 🙂 High-Traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C., and the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity Lucid thouhts on online anonymity and why TOR is not a panacea. […]

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On Intellectual Property And The Human Soul

August 2nd, 2008

I don’t have a consistent stance on copyright and intellectual property – I suspect most people don’t. We just make do with shaky beliefs and half-assed ideals. So I decided to finally think it through and come up with some sort of philosophical basis on this issue. Below is the the resulting epic rant. If […]

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