Hallmark eschews goofy battery in lovely new hand-cranked greeting cards
June 28, 2008 2:32pm
LucasArts says old adventure games "impossible" on DS, SCUMM says "lolwut?"
June 3, 2008 5:41pm
SCUMM was LucasArts' internal utility for creating games (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion). ScummVM is the modern emulator allowing one to play these games.
Please consider correcting this in the blog post.
Yamaha Disklavier Mark IV player piano downloads songs over Wi-Fi
May 27, 2008 5:41pm
Just wanted to point out that the support of "Tune-1000 karaoke files [...] other formats will be supported" is referring to karaoke support. The rest of the release suggests the piano supports MIDI files.
In fact, Tune 1000 (www.tune1000.com) is just a provider of "high-quality Standard MIDI files with Lyrics", so the Tune-1000 files are likely already MIDI files.
Buying electronics in Europe is for idiots
April 23, 2008 5:14pm
Just to nitpick: 0.62 euro cents = €0.0062; 62 euro cents = €0.62.
The difference matters, say, if you're quoting a wireless data rate. :)
Elektronika MK-152: Retrograde Russian Programmable Calc
November 16, 2007 9:58pm
Oops. Working translated link:
PNP SEMIKO - electronic computing machines
Elektronika MK-152: Retrograde Russian Programmable Calc
November 16, 2007 9:47pm
I was interested in this, but the linked blog entry only had a picture and no other link.
Here's the original site and a Google translation:
НПП СЕМИКО - электронные вычислительные машины
PNP SEMIKO - electronic computing machines
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I'm confused why Dug North described the motion on the front of the card as inappropriate, it seems innocent to me. But what does the punch line inside the card say? (I can't make it out in the video.)
Hallmark seems to be saying that the humor inside the cards may be "slightly inappropriate". For example: Valentine's Day Spin-a-majigs - Grandma