Archive for July, 2009

The Official Jeff Jacoby Facebook Fan Page

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Heya, kiddos. Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe (and of Lange family intrigue) finally decided it was time to open up a fan page for him on Facebook. Jeff and I are the site administrators. To Jeff’s credit, he’s so worried about people thinking he’s just tooting his own horn that he actually asked if I could post MY picture to the fan page profile. I said, no, Jeff, I think your fans would rather see…you? :-)

The page is available on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jeff-Jacoby/123656506578?ref=s
I’m hoping to be able to publish links to Jeff’s columns, as well as a list of his speaking engagements, radio appearances, and so on. I’m also hoping Jeff will take an active hand, and start some discussions, make some wry observations, and generally be…Jeff Jacoby.
Either way, it is a privilege and an honor to be able to help out such a good friend and immensely talented man.
Oh, and you can now follow Jeff Jacoby on Twitter under the username Jeff_Jacoby.
Now git postin’ and tweetin’ and linkin’!

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Fallout 3 Downloadable Content (DLC) coming to Playstation 3

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Despite initially stating that downloadable update packs for Fallout 3 were only going to be available for the 360 and the PC, Bethesda has announced that the Fallout 3 DLC content packs will be coming to the PS3.

Supposedly this was supposed to happen in late June, but still hasn’t. This is most likely due to the fact that the 360 and PC DLC packs were released too early, and were pretty darned buggy, meaning Bethesda is taking a long time to make sure the PS3 DLC packs are bug-free.
I believe the first two to hit the PS3 with be Operation Anchorage and Broken Steel, with updates following every four to six weeks. There was also be a downloadable tool to use to update Fallout 3.
The last I heard was that Bethesda was “nearing completion” of the PS3 DLC packs, and that was about a week and a half ago. God willing, we’ll see it show up soon. We may be missing out on the GTA IV DLC, but at least Bethesda decided to be gracious enough to let us PS3 gamers join the party.

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The Satellite of Love — on demand

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Just cluing you into something pretty neat I found — a number of people have uploaded episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 to Google Video. Just go to Google, select video, and type in “MST3K’.

For those of you who don’t know what MST3k is, you’re seriously missing out. It was a show that aired in the late 90s (it started on public access TV in Minnesota, which is where I first saw it, many many moons ago).
MST3k is basically a Rocky-Horror style way of poking fun of B movies. Each episode, three characters (Mike or Joel, depending on the season, Crow T. Robot, and Tom Servo) watch a really bad movie and sit in front of the screen cracking jokes throughout the entire experience.
Anyway, it’s really great TV. So, settle back, check out Google Video, and enjoy such classics as The Blood Waters of Dr. Z.

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