Interesting Links for 4-9-2011

[andrewducker]

• Emberwind - a game in HTML5, and WebGL. Ok, so _now_ I don't think we need Flash any more.
  (tags: html5 game rpg javascript webgl)
• Scottish Tory leadership favourite to disband party
  (tags: scotland conservatives politics)
• What it's like being the scientific advisor to a show that doesn't care about science
  (tags: science scifi BenBova tv)
• An excellent illustration of the stupidity of modern copyright law
  (tags: copyright music samples law)
• Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time
  (tags: time science physics biology brain psychology)
• What's it like to have your film flop at the box office?
  (tags: film movies writing success life conan)
• Researchers train computers to spot autistic brains from an MRI scan with 92% accuracy
  (tags: autism mri psychology brain)
• People think the 'typical' member of a group looks like them
  (tags: groups people recognition faces society psychology)
• The 5 Most Depraved Sex Scenes Implied by 'Harry Potter"
  (tags: harrypotter)
• Bored UCLA Student Joins Libyan Rebels
  (tags: funny military libya)

Comments

[birguslatro]

Are you sure WebGL's used in Emberwind? As with it coming from Opera I decided to test it in Opera, and it started up fine, but Opera doesn't support WebGL yet.

[andrewducker]

Once you get into the actual game it says "WebGL" quite prominently in the top left.

[birguslatro]

Ah - yes. It says 2D there in Opera. Hard to spot where the difference is though. They look identical on the first screens. It's way smoother in Firefox though, so perhaps the better performance can be attributed to WebGL.

And off-topic: What's with Freddy Mercury in Google logo?

[andrewducker]

Interesting - I wonder why Opera are showing how awesome WebGL is if they don't support it yet. I assume it's imminent.

And what Freddy Mercury/Google logo?

[birguslatro]

Quick answer: See Google's search page...

[andrewducker]

It's not giving me a doodle when I do that...

[birguslatro]

I suspect, like China, they're blocking the UK on this one. :)

It's this...

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B-rre9lUl7RKZTNjNWEyMWYtNWJjNy00ZTI2LWI2YzEtNmFjODY2MDQxYmQ1&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

[birguslatro]

Finally found time to search properly, and it would've been his birthday today, so that's the reason...

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/technologynews/view/1151099/1/.html

The 5th arrives for us twelve or so hours earlier than you, which I assume explains why you couldn't see it before.