NuclearMonster

Great episode

On the subject of the eruv, there are some other awesome workarounds for the sabbath. I was at some big box store a few weeks back and saw that some appliances had Sabbath-modes. Instead of playing metal music, these were ovens that would just stay on at a lower temp (like 325) for the next 24 hours. Wikipedia has a good article about these devices. It's so fascinating that some of them have randomly-delayed switching so that you're one step removed from activating the device.

Helpful video for this week's episode:

Was the Snapple bottle open when you first saw it, Chris? If not, I bet the cap was defective or tightened too much by the robot that did it, and so it was impossible to get open with normal human hands.

You can get the latest version of ioquake3 from this address btw: http://ioquake3.org/get-it/angst-builds/ Here's the README for our new renderer, if you're fancy: https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/blob/master/opengl2-readme.txt

Thank you all for trying out ioquake3

anyone have a link to the tim schaefer comment regarding Cortana on twitter?

only if you want the full experience.

Oh god I hope so.

Hey thanks for discussing Wikipedia Jake, they keep deleting my ioquake3 project. In my (obviously extremely biased in favor of keeping) opinion, they could totally have more articles as long as they don't impact the readability of other articles. Also here is a great comparison video about airplane and the movie it is based on: -BjU-e01zQ4

I can't believe my shitty thing about far cry 2 not having puffins/broken was the last reader e-mail. The thumbs' response made it worthwhile though.

odioustea.com isn't registered yet...

Vernors is delicious.

Nobody's mentioned Eliss, the only game i've seen use multi-touch to any extreme degree. You can read my review of that here. (tl;dr: it is awesome) Also surprised to see that nobody mentioned Spider: the something something of bryce manor, which is a great qix + sidescroller mashup with beautiful art. Haven't reviewed it yet, but definitely recommend it. These are pretty much my two favorite games on the device right now.

Both of these games were released as free and some kind of open-source: Black Shades: http://www.wolfire.com/black-shades A pretty unique game which involves you protecting a VIP with a FPS engine and iron-sights. Orbital Sniper: http://sol.gfxile.net/games.html This is an overhead VIP protection game, which is where the Black Shades developer got the idea. They're simple fun that won't last you a while, but are different from anything else I've ever played, they take the old annoying brother's keeper missions from every game ever and make them fun. I'd really like to flesh both out into full games some day.

ESRB hyperlink for fun.

Minotaur in a DOTA Shop.

Video games.

Glad to hear Urban Terror mentioned on the ol' radio program. I run the open-source project it currently uses as the underlying engine, ioquake3.

Wow, the actual ad is worse than I imagined.

Guy eating pasta and exploding? It sounds vaguely like the boss (the actual employer) guy in Sewer Shark. Even if it isn't, the game is fun to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1WEq3dhnnI

You don't have to shout Michael, I'm all around you