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Entries from December 2005

Political Cartoonists Cast an Eye Back on 2005

December 29th, 2005 · No Comments

Pick of the Editorial Cartoon from 2005. Highly USA biased, but that may just be because the USA has been so much in the news in 2005, and George is such a hard target to hit. Yes, uh-huh, so hard. Georgie never done nuffin wrong. No-siree. I’m gonna hug him and squeeze him an …

NPR [...]

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Tags: CreationRobot · Current Affairs · Links · Politics

Drink and Draw

December 29th, 2005 · No Comments

Artwork from the pub, cool results too.

www.myspace.com/drinkanddraw
Via: www.drawn.ca

Tags: art, creationrobot

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Tags: CreationRobot · Creative · Links

Automated Finder Labels

December 29th, 2005 · No Comments

Colour tag all your finder files from the command line…
I’m not sure if this would be useful or just annoying. Only one way to tell though.
“… automated sweeps of the filesystem to “tag” files that met certain criteria with color labels? (ie old files get tagged grey, “system” files tagged red, young files tagged green, [...]

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Tags: Apple · CreationRobot

A Dozen Mac Gems Unearthed In 2005

December 29th, 2005 · No Comments

2005’s dozen best apps for the Mac? Told you th…

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Tags: Apple · CreationRobot · Software

Exploit Released for Unpatched Windows Flaw

December 29th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Be careful if you are running Windows, a new exploit is doing the rounds. Slashdot has a quick solution:
1. Click on the Start button on the taskbar (Or win-key+r)
2. Click on Run
3. Type regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll to disable.
4. Click OK when the change dialog appears.
“Security researchers have released instructions for exploiting a previously unknown security [...]

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Tags: CreationRobot · IT

The Big List of RPG Plots

December 27th, 2005 · 4 Comments

Great list of RPG plots. Must use these in novel writing …
The Big List of RPG Plots, by S. John Ross

Tags: creationrobot, Writing

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Tags: CreationRobot · Games · Writing

Wired News: 2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards

December 27th, 2005 · 4 Comments

Is Wired on a roll or is it just a good meta filter? I ask this as I’ve linked to it a few times recently.
I’d love Wired to get seriously good again, it was once you know. Honest. Way back when. This was when 9600 modems wandered the earth in slow moving packs, softly grazing [...]

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Tags: CreationRobot · Links

Abandonia - Home of abandonware DOS games

December 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Another DOS games site, enjoy!
Ah the days of trying to free up 3k ram so that a game would load. Classic.
Abandonia - Home of abandonware DOS games

Tags: creationrobot, free, game, home

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Tags: CreationRobot · Games