My wife, Angela, got me a really nice Swiss Army watch several years ago but I rarely wear it so I really don’t need another. But you see, I like watches a lot. The problem is I don’t like wearing them. That being said, I could possibly see myself making an exception for Reveal (the one with the black metal band, thanks). from the mind of designer Daniel Will-Harris. Gorgeous!

To be completely fair I have not used any of the betas, but the majority of Gruber’s gripes apply to all previous releases. To have not installed anything past 2.x is in itself telling since my history with the browser goes way back to the pre-1.0 betas, and I love to give new applications a good going-over. However, since switching to the Mac about 4 years ago I’ve grown weary of the half-baked user experience.

Mozilla’s approach to Mac development isn’t so much lazy or a lack of qualified developers, I think, but a result of the organization’s over-arching approach to software design. The idea is to give a seamless experience across platforms so the Mac version looks and acts like its Windows and Linux counterparts. This is a nice theory, but I often find applications like this end up not feeling quite right anywhere, least of which on the Mac.

However, Firefox 3 is supposed to change all that, but the problem isn’t so much the look of the application, but its behaviour. This is the crux of John’s post and why I’ve stopped using Firefox. Skins can make Firefox look like anything, but if it doesn’t act like the OS it’s running on, that is ultimately the bigger problem.

Camino, Firefox’s OSX-native brother is a fantastic alternative (and my default browser), but lags behind in features and, most painfully, addon support. As a web developer this hurts most because for me Firefox is basically a platform on which to run Chris Pederick’s amazing Web Developer toolbar, among a few other notable addons. When Firefox 3 is released and my required addons are made compatible, I’ll upgrade, but until then, count me out.

Via Daring Fireball

First up, we have Velociraptor Safari. You’ll need to download a browser plugin, but the installation is painless and the game is totally worth it. The premiss is this: you are a raptor who drives a jeep. You hit other raptors with your jeep or snag them with a spiked ball on a chain which trails from said jeep. You get points for everything so go ahead crash, flip… do anything you want. It’s a hoot.

Off-Road Velociraptor Safari (Preinstall) from Matthew Wegner on Vimeo.

Next is Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. I think the game author is best left to describe this one.

The Great B-Ball Purge of 2041, a day so painful to some that it is referred to only as the “B-Ballnacht”. Thousands upon thousands of the world’s greatest ballers were massacred in a swath of violence and sports bigotry as the game was outlawed worldwide.

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Flash forward 12 years to the post-cyberpocalyptic ruins of Neo New York, 2053. A Chaos Dunk rocks the island of Manhattan, killing 15 million. When the finger is put on the aging Charles Barkley, he must evade the capture of the B-Ball Removal Department, led by former friend and baller Michael Jordan, and disappear into the dangerous underground of the post-cyberpocalypse to clear his name and find out the mysterious truth behind the Chaos Dunk.

What’s amazing about this game it’s unwavering dedication to camp. There is nothing about it that isn’t ridiculous, but it’s so lovingly crafted it can only be described as a perfect storm of retro gaming goodness. Check out the trailer, but it takes about 30 or 40 seconds to get going.

Via The 1up Show

I didn’t read my news feeds yesterday and now look what’s gone and happened… The worst part is I have to clear all those unread articles and I have this sick compulsion to at least skim them all, you know, just in case there’s a really interesting article I won’t come across elsewhere. I suppose RSS feeds are a lot like email that in a way, but do you read every email that reaches your inbox? Surely a certain amount of it is spam you can toss out immediately, or have transparently tossed out for you, but you can’t do that with RSS — at least I can’t — and it’s all there waiting to be looked at it.

I’ve read tips on how to reduce RSS clutter: assign “must-read” subscriptions to one folder and “like-to-read” subscriptions to another. The former you read as normal while the latter only if you have time, otherwise you just mark the whole mess as read and get back to whatever else there is to do on the internet. Porn, I suppose. That makes a lot of sense, and frankly a number of the feeds I read overlap and I see the same story several times over, but I just can’t bring myself to do it.

I like to think to myself that I weigh all my news feeds equally because I’m a guy with such a well-rounded tastes that I can’t simply cut stuff out without part of my equally well-rounded personality suffering somewhat. That could be it, but more likely it’s because I’m a completist nerd. I love it, but it sucks.