Deepleap on CNET TV. Also, we're in the September issue of Playboy, page 36. Err, I mean, that's just what I heard, I don't even know what Playboy is, really.
7/31/2000 01:29:50 PM | +
7/31/2000 01:17:00 AM | +
Maria is a riot. She's my new favorite internet rock star.
Andrea finally gives the fans what they want: boobies.
(Also, I wrote a bad uber.nu article this week about the chops, but who cares.)
7/27/2000 11:49:03 PM | +
My links page is a work in progress. The content isn't that interesting, I'm still in the process of annotating a lot of stuff and importing bookmarks from my other super-secret deepleap account. But the technology is kinda neat. Basically, it's my Deepleap Bookmarks. Some scripts I've written take the XML feed, transform it with a little XSL, and then ftp it up here on a semi-regular basis. There should be a little tutorial up on Deepleap dot org about it (relatively) soon.
7/26/2000 08:13:21 PM | +
Unreal Technology Announcements -
"Yes - hell froze over, allowing the cows to skid home - we released the final Unreal 1 patch. Based on version 226 from July last year, it includes the latest Direct3D and sound code from Unreal Tournament."
Hey, what's a year long delay between friends? Oh wait, we're not friends, we're customers who were promised an update and didn't get it while they made another game using the technology that was supposed to be in that update. But I digress.
Unreal Tournament? Quake 3 Arena? Pah. Multiplayer crap. Single-player original Unreal is still astounding. I love that game.
7/25/2000 07:39:00 PM | +
"Should I call you 'Logan,' Weapon X?"
"No, Wolverine! Snicktey-snicktey-snoime!"
(Chops won.)
7/23/2000 08:17:27 PM | +
I'm considering a change in facial hair. I want you - yes you! - to give me your opinion. So, I'm presenting the following poll.
What should Adam do about his facial hair?
7/23/2000 12:21:43 AM | +
A brief dialogue concerning standards compliant browsers
Okay, now see this? This is a four way road, okay?
And dead in the center, is a crisp, new, web page built using the latest W3 standards. Now at the end of each of the streets, are four browsers, okay? You following? Up here, we got a standards-compliant, polished, bug-free production-quality release version of Mozilla. Okay? Now down here, we have a horrible, buggy based-on-a-1995 codebase Netscape 4 browser. To this side, we have a multi-platform, not-wedded to the OS Microsoft Internet Exporer Browser with complete standards support. And over to this side - the Easter Bunny.
Which one’s going to render the page first?
What is this supposed to prove?
I’m serious. This is a serious exercise. It’s like an S.A.T. question. Which one’s going to render the page first - the standards compliant Microsoft browser, the buggy non-compliant Netscape 4 browser, the finished Mozilla release, or the Easter Bunny?
Netscape 4
Good. Why?
I don’t know.
BECAUSE THESE OTHER THREE ARE FIGMENTS OF YOUR FUCKING IMAGINATION!
Yeah, I've been watching the Chasing Amy DVD. A lot.
7/21/2000 11:29:08 PM | +
WaSP slams Netscape for endless delays, demands Navigator 4 be taken off the market.
I was with the Web Standards Project on slamming Netscape. I've been doing that for months. Seems like years even. But "demand" Navigator be removed from the market? Whatever. Shut up. Don't be an idiot. It's one thing to say that the excessive delays of Netscape 5, 6, or whatever the marketing drones decied to call it, are harming efforts at web standardization, but demanding Netscape 4 no longer be distributed is just ridiculous. Yeah, no problem I'll just switch over to Internet Exporer. Hmm, quick look at the crystal ball, "will Microsoft ever support FreeBSD?" Not fucking likely.
I could give a rats ass about Mozilla as network application development platform, or whatever the hell the mozilla zealots are calling their gigantic waste of time these days.
I want a browser. For the love of god, all I want is a goddamned standards-compliant browser that runs on FreeBSD and doesn't suck and I don't want the interface to be scriptable and insane I want it to be OS native. Dammit. If somebody took Netscape 3 and threw in the Gecko layout engine I'd use that as my primary browser. And be happy. Very, very happy. I don't think I'm alone in that view.
That's what the Web Standards project should be harping on: the conscious decision on the part of the Mozilla project to focus on the mozilla "platform" instead of just making a fucking browser. I don't want my browser to be able to magically turn into a remote script editor, ok? I don't want a virtual application platform. I want a browser. The Web Standards Project, in so much as it has the right to "demand" anything, should demand the speedy release of a browser that uses ngLayout, and then just let the code-monkeys play around with the rest of the mozilla crap for another couple of years to get the kinks out.
Galeon looks to be doing something like this, but I've been having issues getting it to run on BSD. Looks promising though.
7/21/2000 09:31:55 PM | +
I love woz.
7/21/2000 09:09:59 PM | +
(Sorry, I still don't feel like providing commentary for the links.)
7/21/2000 08:35:51 AM | +
Frykitty -
"There will never be another crush like this one. Not even Halcyon will make it to the hallowed halls of crushdom, as this humble blogger has."
7/19/2000 03:20:51 PM | +
Powerpuff Girls Flying Delta Express
7/19/2000 12:49:25 PM | +
Today on your favorite webzine - The Future of Online Content.
Remember when I used to link to stuff that didn't involve me? Yeah, that was wild, back in the day. Crazy.
7/17/2000 10:46:14 PM | +
The rockstar house now has dsl. And you know what that means - more HOTT HOTTT webcam ACTION! Constant adamcam and stalk.benbrown.com updates. Lucky you.
7/17/2000 06:03:32 PM | +
I'm so proud of my former roomie Jim - he's finally updating the little blogger-powered journalish page I hastily set up for him before the end of the school year. The May 25 entry about his parents stealing his porn is a riot. I love the internet.
7/15/2000 09:03:21 PM | +
Do yourself a favor, ignore the the peanut gallery bitching about the Fame Fatale article up on ala and instead just go and read Scott's Why Are You Here? article.
7/14/2000 04:40:13 PM | +
Uber: I Do Not Have A Complex
This piece demonstrates the first rule in the Adam Mathes comedy school: when in doubt, just throw in pictures of yourself in a Powerpuff Girls baby-tee. That'll make anything funny.
Because I love you guys so very, very much - special blueblog exclusive bonus pic.
7/11/2000 11:45:04 PM | +
Sunday, me and my pals had a Hot Chix Pool Party. I took pictures so that I could share the fun and excitement with you. Enjoy.
7/10/2000 11:25:43 PM | +
I disavow any and all involvement in this.
7/10/2000 06:42:34 PM | +
Yes, I actually wrote it for the possibility of getting a pin.
7/6/2000 12:09:14 PM | +
Blah blah napster blah blah copyright blah blah, I know, it's old news and all the hardcore geeks have moved to greener, less mainstream pastures, but the latest
legal defense from napster is fascinating -
I'm a legal idiot, and I have no idea if this will hold up at all, but it's an interesting point. What bothers me most is in all of this discussion over "intellectual property rights" what is never discussed is the intent and origin of U.S. copyright law - which was, straight from the constitution - Article I Section 8 | Clause 8 -"But Boies also raised a far more ambitious argument that could be hugely damaging for the record companies if it gains legal traction. Citing internal documents he says show the labels have abused their market power to block alternative channels of music distribution, along with an obscure antitrust law, the attorney says the labels have lost the legal ability to enforce their copyrights.
'If you use a copyright to achieve an anti-competitive purpose, you lose the rights to them,' he said. "
[The Congress shall have power] "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"The whole point of copyright law is to encourage people to share their work by granting them limited exclusive rights to them, temporarily. So if you're using your "intellectual property rights" to stop the distrubition of your work through certain channels, you're really missing the point. Contrary to what corporate America may have you believe, copyright law does not exist so that record companies can rape artists and shut down whole lines of distribution that they haven't figured out how to exploit yet, you know, like the internet.
I wrote a much longer article on this topic a few years ago for a now defunct online gaming site, the topic being not music but old arcade games, but alas, the site is gone and I can't seem to find a copy of my legal defense of retrogaming article anywhere.
God, I love retrogaming so very very much. I didn't bring my HotRod to Austin with me and I kind of miss it...
Also, Stanford maintains a good list of Copyright and Fair Use resources.
7/4/2000 07:57:14 PM | +
Über is taking a long weekend because I'm a bum and I can't write. I tried writing a new texty text all weekend all that came out was crap. Unreadable crap. Bleh.
7/2/2000 11:52:08 PM | +
No, no, it can't be... but it is! An adamcam update!
7/2/2000 03:27:41 PM | +
Normally, I would never "pimp" and "hype" a redesign, but this time i think the situation demands it. Amazingly, I didn't do filler friday on uber this week - Andy "talentless hack" Pressman did. Of course, he just used the opportunity to pimp his new oh messy life design. Unfortunately, due to some tragic typos the the editor missed, andy got no linky love. So, here andy, have some dirty linking loving from me.
7/1/2000 12:50:20 AM | +
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