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There are 6 good videos on youtube

Mike Corey — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:53:10 +0000

3 are portions of the Philips CD-i infomercial and the others are the video content from Silent Steel.

Philips CD-i

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Silent Steel

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Mike Corey — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:58:09 +0000

Google, your text extraction is cute, but nowhere near perfect. You should probably do something besides just keyword matching.

Sarcastic Gamer Wii Fit Parody

Mike Corey — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:36:59 +0000

The Wii Fit looks great with anything from IKEA.

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Echochrome is an exercise in frustration

Mike Corey — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:18:34 +0000

So everyone knocks adventure games because you have to play them in a way the developer would have intended. You have a problem and a finite set of inventory items combine them with the environment and you get a solution. Echochrome takes the frustration of an adventure game but puts it in puzzle format. You’re still progressing through the game with the perspective of the designer, but here its simply moving a camera. Cool in theory, but I just spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure out why one of the “mysteries” wasn’t working. I tried to put a hole out of site and it looked perfect. Exactly how the game is supposed to be played. Problem is this. The game didn’t register the fact that there was no longer a hole. Instead the mannequin ceaselessly did an about face and killed himself. Seriously, if you’re going to describe what someone can do then make it apply to every situation, not just the ones the designer saw.

Slides from “Vulnerabilities in Home Networks”

Mike Corey — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:33:05 +0000

Attached please find the slides from my presentation on vulnerabilities in home networks. This talk briefly discusses the lack of security enabled by default on home routers as well as the browser exploits which will take advantage of these.

Slides

…and he makes a mean iced tea

Mike Corey — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:45:33 +0000

Circuit City’s online weekly ad shows “Professor Lipton and the Curious Village” on sale for only $29.99. I guess I’ll just get that while I wait for Professor Layton and the Curious Village to come in.

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neoGAF on married life

Mike Corey — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:10:29 +0000

neoGAF has an interesting thread on the effects of married life on all evening gaming binges. I mean im sure its not as bad as some people’s lives, but check it out. Its an interesting read confirming the fact that you’ll never get good at COD4.

MarriedGAF

Greasemonkey Script for Joystiq.com

Mike Corey — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:32:07 +0000

Just a quick update. I wrote a greasemonkey script to remove ads from joystiq.com. Its very static, but it gets the job done. The script can be found on greasespot.

Amazon selling R4 carts for Nintendo DS

Mike Corey — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:20:25 +0000

While I was searching for a GPS Bluetooth transceiver, I noticed amazon is currently selling the R4. The R4 is essentially a cart to let you download and play roms of “backups” of games you own. (Similar to the EZ Flash V). Basically you go to a torrent, download your game, and put it on the card and viola. I’m suprised amazon of all companies is selling them. They might as well just go all in and start selling mod chips.

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Piss off Roadrunner

Mike Corey — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:03:53 +0000

Roadrunner just began resolving bad DNS queries to a search page. Absolutely stupid as this breaks the whole state machine of the internet. request some ridiculous domain that doesnt exist like “bestbuy.co” and instead of getting a DNS server error the server name will resolve to 24.28.199.152. This in fact is a roadrunner webserver which will in fact return a 200 response from the webserver. absolutely ridiculous. So now a site that doesn’t exist suddenly has a server with the page you requested.

As if breaking the state machine for web browsing wasn’t enough, whats at the top of the results? SPONSORED results. I’m sorry but piss off roadrunner. I pay enough for your flaky service to not have to deal with you trying to sell me shit at the drop of a misplaced “m”

UPDATE:
DSL reports noticed this also. Check them out for some additional details.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/90502