Stumbled across an very fun japanese freeware game for both the Mac and PC called Doukutsu Monogatari (aka Cave Story). It reminds me of some old NES game, but done super super good for being freeware. Make sure and apply the english language pack unless you read Japanese. Oh, and here are the keyboard controls since they aren’t listed

<- -> move left, right

up arrow point gun up

down arrow point gun down, perform action (talk, open, etc)

z jump

x fire weapon

a,s switch weapon

q inventory

w map

Have you actually seen Axl Rose lately? Scary, although not as scary as Eddie Van Halen.

(Oh, and please no “Alex Rose / Axl Rose” jokes. Trust me, you are not the first one to make that clever lexical leap.)

Its been over a year, but I’m working on Cerebral Imprint again. My first goal - make it so it doesn’t look like, well, ass (pardon my french). When I first started working on Cerebral Imprint I was a fresh switcher from a windows world and the only user interface work I had done in a while was swing based. Now that I’ve been a Mac convert for quite some time I find the user interface to be somewhat of an embarrassment. So, what do you think about this layout? Its going to be a little bit before I have a new test version ready but stay tuned. My goal is to actually stabilize the code base, release a 2.0 release, then actually start to add new features again.

Hey, looking for a nice list of some of the more popular open source apps out there for the mac? Why not check this site out… PS - Saturday rocked. I just had to tell someone, but shhh, don’t tell anyone. Its between just you and me, promise?

When I heard that Google Earth had been released for OS X the other day I had to give a spin. At first glance it looks sorta like a standalone client for their online maps service, albeit with many more layers you can overlay over the map and more UI special effects.

Dig around a bit more and you find there is a whole user community around finding and labeling places on the map. You enable these optional layers and you find a treasure trove of little details people have spent time entering in. For instance in my area I find free WI-FI access points labeled, traffic cam information, Bruce Lee’s Grave, Bill’s house, or where Kurt shot himself.

I was let down a little bit that it wouldn’t handle the address for my friend in Japan, but then again none of the map sites seem to do so…