Monthly Archive for June, 2008

On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness… for Linux

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Phil Crissman
on June 3, 2008
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Let it be noted that the first installment of the Penny Arcade video game, On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness, Episode One, has a demo, and a full version available, for not only Mac OS, but also for Linux.

Let is also be noted that using the word “precipice” in the title of your video game may just make it awesome auto magically. Or not. Your Mileage May Vary.

Blamescoble, Day One

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Phil Crissman
on June 1, 2008
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I wanted an excuse to build something small with the Qcodo PHP framework, and I had thought the whole mini-meme around blaming Scoble for Twitter’s downtime, and Drew Olanoff’s inspired leap to blame Scoble for, well, almost everything else, were amusing enough to build a microsite around. So http://blamescoble.com was born.

I don’t know what I expected but what happened, so far, is:

Day 1 (May 31 2008): 134 visits.
Day 2 (June 1 2008): 502 visits (as of 8:50am).
Crimes laid to Scoble’s charge so far: 210.

I was a bit concerned about spam, but stripping HTML from the entries seems to make this sort of thing a less compelling platform for spammers.