I have been meaning to post this for a few days, but had not gotten around to it.
EA have announced the game I have been working on since February, it is FIFA Street. I am amazingly proud of what we have done so far on this game, and cannot wait until it is finished.
So far working here at EA has been an interesting experience. On the one hand it has been one of the biggest challenges I've ever had, but on the other hand, due to the professionalism of EA, it has been well managed for a game, allow for me to still have somewhat of a life, and to know that my stuff will be ready on time.
Yesterday I went to see Team America World Police, and I have to say, it was the funniest movie I have seen in a long time, even funnier than the very funny Shaun of the Dead was.
I wonder if Americans will find it funny though, and which subgroups. It really makes a strong mockery of the American right, but also the American left. I did feel that they forced the attacks at the American left more, as if they wanted to make sure they balanced the mockery, but that might be due to my slight bias.
A few of my friends have already shown some reluctance to see the movie because it uses puppets, but I assure you, that is not a problem. Even I thought immediately of Thunderbirds, but it is not like that at all, no more than The Simpsons being a cartoon is a problem.
One of my favorite features of the movie is the sound track. I will not spoil the movie by going into the songs themselves, I will just note that each song is hilarious.
If you do not know what I am talking about at all, maybe you should see the Trailer
There are lots of types of spam on the Internet, the most well known is email spam, the other one is comment spam, but a third I've noticed lately is duplication of data spam.
Look at this Google search. At the time of writing there were 668 hits for that exact article. Every page syndicated the exact same text.
Why is this needed? I can understand why you syndicate a news story on television, because sure, the Las Vegas local station want their local guy with his local clothes and local accent to read the cue cards, but on the internet? Why is it needed?
I realize this is not as much a problem as email spam (the lowest of the low people email spam. The only worse people on the net are phishers), but still, ti clogs Google up, and is a stupid waste. If I worked at Google I would merge identical pages together and just have them come up as one search result.