Ray pretty much hit the nail right on the head here:

http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2008/6/3/Open-Letter-to-Adobe-on-Certification

I usually try to avoid posting content not safe for work here, but just fair warning that this has some sensitive material that isn’t nudity but talks explicitly about sex and has frames of animated sexual icons equivalent to that of a DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball game.

I tend to go into these long youtube-esque videos that touch on serious topics with a fistful of salt, fully expecting to click the back button 30 seconds into it, but this ~10 minute flash/narrated essay was very down to earth and touched on views that anyone (not just gamers) can appreciate.

The author’s thesis is that video games need to break the anti-sex relationship with their respective console platforms so that the video game art form can take itself to the next level. Movies and TV do it, why can’t video games?

I’d recommend this to anyone that has ever been a gamer, or even to those cautious parents that seem so very, very overprotective/reactive these days.

Source: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1810 via http://eatingbees.brokentoys.org/2008/05/27/nerds-shut-ins-man-children/

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Best Programming Jokes

I’ve been a slashdot reader pretty much forever (my userid is barely over 6 digits) but I must have been on vacation the week that hit because I don’t know how on earth I missed this:

You’ve probably read this classic boner of an iPod quote at some point:

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.It’s from the Slashdot article on the introduction of the original Apple iPod back in 2001. I had always assumed this particular quote was written by a random Slashdot user in the comments. But in fact, that quote is part of the body of the news entry, and it came directly from Rob Malda, the founder of Slashdot.

Rob’s pithy dismissal of the iPod at its introduction has become virtually synonymous with how out of touch the Slashdot crowd is with the rest of the world.

Obviously, this being an overgeneralization, this does hold some truth, and there are quite a few questionable posters (okay, who am I kidding… there are a LOT of ridiculous comments) but the content on slashdot is still great. Unless, of course you’re not an open source enthusiast and you’re going to certainly be the minority of its readers.

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