I never thought I would purchase an app from iTunes, let alone the AppStore, but alas, I gave in and bought Sega’s 5th-tillioth incarnation of Super Monkey Ball, this time for the iPhone. (I know, I know… a simple SSH hack and I could have had the game for free, but I don’t regret this purchase a bit. And it was only 10 dollars) I am painfully and utterly addicted to Super Monkey Ball for the iPhone.
The popularity of the Alan Hshieh-coined word “moop” (in its current meaning of course) has been honoured with a T-Shirt design created by the talented Brenda Ong of the Asian-Central.com staff. Awesome? Definitely. The link below will take you to the ordering site. All proceeds will go to supporting the development of the grassroots social networking site, Asian-Central.com, one of the greatest up-n-comers if I may say so myself. Of course, I’m also a staff member.
I got my new camera today, the Samsung NV4, a nice upgrade to my sadly broken NV3. The form factor is about the same. Decent size, decent width. The GUI is definitely pumped up a bit, and I got a nice additional megapixel out of the upgrade. Gone are the two “knob” speakers that were present on the NV3, which seemed to confuse everyone who thought the speakers were buttons. Instead one speaker remains, and the other got switched out for the mode selection dial. (more…)