From my Google Reader shares

• MMS comes to iPhones on September 25:
• Happy Birthday, Internet!: I learned about this in school today!

From my Google Reader shares

• Square Makes WWII RTS Debut September 22: Weird, I wonder if there will be any Japanese bias in their depiction.
• Harmonix to ‘re-energize’ its franchises after The Beatles: Rock Band:
• All Humans Are Mutants, Say Scientists:
• SC2A Blizzcon Q&A: Protoss:
• Sometimes when watching for danger:
• And The Last, Secret Beatles: Rock Band Song Is… [Rumor]:
• More on today's Gmail issue:

From my Google Reader shares

• New Modern Warfare 2 footage captures the life of a flag runner: Looks great
• ClearWire WiMax Reaches 10 New Markets, Mostly in Texas [4G]: Lubbock gets 4G but no still no 3G for Sprint mobile phones? This is messed up.
• Guitar Hero 5's World Tour import feature is bullsh*t: Wow, totally horrible Activision.
• SC2A Blizzcon Q&A: Terran:
• 'King of The Hill' says goodbye: I thought the show was over like 7 years ago and I find out only now it’s being cancelled.
• Harmonix and EA want Rock Band at your bar: I’d be at bars waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more often if they had Rock Band nights goin on.
• Drop in P2P Traffic Attributed to Traffic Shaping:
• Order Secret Menu Items at Fast Food Chains [Fast Food Hacks]:
• Rumor: Rock Band 2 will import LEGO Rock Band tracks:

From my Google Reader shares

• SC2A Blizzcon Q&A: General:
• Apple’s annual iPod Refresh event confirmed:
• Another chapter written in Marvel’s l… – The Associated Press:

Google Reader (the best piece of software you probably aren’t using) recently added the ability to share out the RSS feeds you have which makes it easy to give out the subscriptions a person has to their friends. As such I’ve generated a kit with a few of my feeds setup by the folders I have them organized into.

• Blogs I read
• Tech news
• Entertainment
• Gaming
• Web comics
• Stores

You should be able to just go visit those links, if you’re signed into your Google account hit subscribe and be done. I don’t know if it’s smart enough to add them into folders, but my suggestion is after you add each package, you immediately go into settings -> subscriptions and then create a folder for each bundle.

From my Google Reader shares

• Diseases threaten to wipe out bananas in – East African: Noooooooo, what will I use to ripen my avocados?!

Impressions

Starcraft 2 still plays great. I had a few matches where the games started lagging like crazy but I later found out that this was caused by the laptops overheating. The section we were playing at had all these Alienware laptops as opposed to the big bad Intel machines in the regular area (we were in the more or less unlimited play community tournament area where you could play DotA/WSG/Starcraft 2). Other than that, the game is actually faster than I remember it last year. Last year I think games played on Fast and now you had the options of Normal, Fast, Faster and I think you could even go to slow and slower, but normal was agonizingly slow. Read the rest of this entry

I’m going to split up the impressions of the games I played at Blizzcon so  first up I’ll talk about the game I had the briefest amount of time playing, Diablo 3.

Last year left a pretty sour taste in my mouth. The game interface was (and still is) totally different from Diablo 2, the level of power for the class I played was far far weaker than I expected, and the game in general felt slow paced due to dumping out my mana on just one enemy. This year, I’m a little more prepared for what’s going to happen so the interface differences weren’t as jarring as they were last year. For the wizard, 1-3 were bound to non targettable spells (things like self buffs or aoe spells) and you had some health pots on 5 I think. The left mouse button was attack and the right one was your main nuke which you could press tab to swap out with a secondary nuke. The tab thing is really weird, but since I hadn’t played Diablo 2 recently, I wasn’t as annoyed as last year when I kept trying to open the minimap. Read the rest of this entry

From my Google Reader shares

• Best Buy Slashing Big-Screen HDTV Prices Next Week [Dealzmodo]:

From my Google Reader shares

• Saving the old world with wallpapers: This is cool, but you know what would be cooler? Using photosynth: http://photosynth.net/
• I’d Sleep Under That: Mega Man 2 Chain Mail:
• Bleach Chapter 371:
• Naruto Chapter 461: