I hate Poni Hoax’s “Antibodies.” It isn’t fun to play. It’s not even really a good song. And it’s ridiculously under-tiered in Rock Band 3 for Guitar.
It’s possible this is just one of those songs I can’t wrap my five-button-brain around, but I expect much better of myself for a Tier 3 song. I couldn’t one-lighter this one fast enough.
BioWare has dated the long-promised and recently teased final Mass Effect 2 DLC mission, “Mass Effect: Arrival,” for release across Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and Bioware.com (for PC) on Tuesday, March 29. The add-on will be available for $7 (£5.49) or the equivalent platform currency.
Leading players into this holiday’s Mass Effect 3, “Arrival” will see Commander Shepard “sent to the edge of the galaxy to rescue an undercover operative who may have evidence of an imminent Reaper invasion.” Admiral Hackett (voiced by Lance Henriksen) will make a return appearance.
I’m looking forward to the conclusion of one of the best games I’ve ever played, and certainly the bearer of what I think is the best video game trailer ever created (which is of course below).
If you can think of one better, argue your case. 🙂
John Gruber, reflecting on the New York Times’s subscription pricing:
The decision to purchase and the act of paying are part of the experience for any product or service, and should be designed accordingly.
Not paying is always simple.
Make purchasing something easy, simple, and understandable. Help me figure out exactly what I’m paying for and how much it’s going to cost me over a specific amount of time (or forever). If you can’t do that, I’m probably not going to give you my money unless it’s something I’ve decided I can’t live without.
From the new website for Whoosh Traffic, which I will not link to because I don’t want to encourage them:
Here’s exactly how Whoosh Traffic works:
Sign up, then log in to our easy-to-use control panel and tell us how many links you want to build and which keywords you want to rank for.
“Sign up and let us know what keywords you want us to spam.”
To ensure maximum success for your link building campaign, we manually verify each of your backlink requests. First, we ensure that the keyword you wish to rank for is getting traffic from people typing it in to the search engines. (Nothing worse than being ranked #1 for a keyword no one types in!) We also send you an estimate of how long it will take you to rank for this keyword, and our suggestions on what else you can do to help your site rank better for your selected keyword(s).
“We’ll double-check your keywords against the other keywords we have been hired to create spam for so we can make sure we get all of our spam in order.”
Once we verify your campaign, our expert Backlink Ninjas take over. The Ninjas are full-time Whoosh Traffic employees whose sole job is to go out to other sites online and add your link to them with the proper keywords. Our database is full of thousands of these sites, each of which allow us to create a profile for you with a “do-follow” link back to your site on your profile page.
“Our well-programmed and automated splog, spam forum post, and spam profile creating robots will be programmed to infect the Internet with as many false and misleading websites as possible, all created in locations where we’ve determined the site owners aren’t smart enough to stop spam.
If the robots aren’t available, well, there’s always Mechanical Turk.”
Next, we add your campaign to our rank tracking tool so you can see what rank you have now, and watch your rank improve over time.
As your links are being built, you can check in on the progress in your control panel!
“We make it easy to see how much crap we’re creating on the Internet for you.”
Finally, we add all of the links we have just built to our custom blog network so that search engines find and index your links. We trickle links out over 1-2 weeks so your links will not all be found on the same day, thus ensuring that search engines find a steady flow of new links to your site! As search engines find your links, your ranking will increase.
“We then create posts on our custom-built splogs, making sure we don’t post very often so we aren’t caught as easily for doing something everyone knows is shady, wrong, and annoying.”
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I’m assuming it’s just a natural oversight that one of the questions in the FAQ isn’t “Aren’t you referring to spam?”
“Three Famous Notes of Broadcasting History” by Bill Harris:
Almost anyone who ever listened to radio has at some time or other, heard the famous three note chime that has been the long time trademark of NBC. These chimes were used on the hour and half-hour to announce station breaks on the network.
I became interested in the history of the chimes after discovering a book at the library titled The Fourth Chime by NBC, printed in 1944. I had never heard of a “fourth” chime and my curiosity was aroused. I checked out the book to find out more about this extra chime. However the book told very little about the fourth chime, but dealt mainly with the role NBC played in the reporting of special world-wide news events, primarily during World War II.
A quick and fascinating read about a portion of the broadcasting history of the United States. Like the author, I think the portion on the “fourth chime” is the most fascinating part.
There’s a great Wikipedia article on the same, though it appears to be largely sourced from the article I linked above.
Ryan Markel 