If you’ve ever played a Blizzard game, you might know that the data is stored in .mpq, or MoPaQ, files.

Over on Q & Stuff, Justin Olbrantz has posted a nice overview of how the MoPaQ format compares to standard filesystems and archive formats, assessing the pros and cons of each of its tricks. It’s a [...]

For some reason beyond my comprehension, Colloquis decided to make SmarterChild, an instant messenger bot, talk like a twelve-year-old AOL user. Here’s how to snap that out of him:

Ryan Govostes: I don’t like when you talk like that SmarterChild: i thought u did like when i talk like that. Ryan Govostes: [...]

Akismet caught a trackback from a spam blog hosted at kouragethekowardlydog.adoption23.info. The trackback was an excerpt of one of my previous posts, prefaced with “Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today. Here’s a quick excerpt:”

An Unexpected Party

The Lyceum blog that existed there (and at dozens of other [...]

If you can get Frets on Fire working on Mac OS X through some voodoo, here’s a tip on how to play with your Guitar Hero III Les Paul controller for Wii:

Grab the latest revision of DarwiinRemote, which lets you map the Wiimote’s buttons to key combos. You’ll want to grab WiiRemote.framework from the same [...]