- Go ahead, you know you’re dying to spell your name with Zombies
- Keyboard designers: the Caps Lock key is placed stupidly for these times. Considering how little it is used it should be moved elsewhere. Fortunately, keyboard remapping is possible.
- they wanted to make Snakes on a Plane a rated PG movie. Samuel Jackson is fired up in this YouTube clip. Listen to him scream “Sequel! Sequel!” The reptillian madness begins this Friday August 18. I’ll be there, will you? Best promotion for a movie in years.
- Nintendo Wii will offer free online gameplay according to gamasutra
- Over the weekend Microsoft released a desktop blogging tool called Windows Live Writer (Beta). Somebody up there must enjoy the fact of attaching the words “Windows Live” to everything. The official Writer blog is here. Developers can download the plugin SDK from here. Once installed look in your My Documents folder for two new directories containing the sample code and a help file.
- An ink blogging plugin for Writer is already available
- Smart move by Microsoft for those thinking of buying a Vista capable PC — a free Vista upgrade — and it starts in October. Just wait a couple more months. Lifehacker has more.
- fly around Google maps in a plane [thanks Make]
- Time magazine lists 50 coolest websites
- I wasn’t planning on our home buying Texas Hold ‘em for the Xbox Live Arcade, but the first two days (August 23-24) it will be free before going on sale for 800 Microsoft Points and that’s a plan changer, thanks Nathan.
- draw space looks like a good place to start for the artist-impaired like myself
- new how-to video site videojug moderates submissions to keep the quality higher.

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