Quick Hits

Sorry to anyone that might have come to this blog hoping to find anything of interest to read. Things have been crazy in Fridge's world and thus blogging opportunities have been few.

In lieu of some engrossing long diatribe, here are a few quick thoughts:

1) This is hysterical: Jerry Seinfeld tooling on Larry King.

2) Halloween with the mini-Fridges was a lot of fun. It also prompted this exchange with my 4 year old son.
Me: Okay, don't forget to wash your hands after you go potty.
Him: Uh, dad. Batman doesn't wash his hands.
Me: Sure he does.
Him: No, he has gloves.
Me: You don't have gloves.
Him: But I am Batman.
Me: Ok, listen. Even Batman has a Dad. Wash your hands.
Him: Oh, alright...

3) How egotistical do you have to be to think that God helped you win the World Series? Why would God give a crap? But, hey many thanks to Curt for taking himself out of the running for Yanks 5th starter. The Yankees had of course centered their offseason plans around signing this bloated ego-maniacal asshole. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

4) P-Krug has a book. I'm reading it now. You should, too.

5) Guitar Hero III for the Wii could be one of the coolest things I've ever owned. I have mastered Foghat and Pat Benatar (yes, Pat Benatar. I was initially confused, too).

6) Because you didn't ask for it, here it is. The history of LOLCats.


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Nintendo "Gets It"

They see that one way to really succeed going forward is to open your platform. That's how YouTube, Wikipedia, MySpace, etc. have become huge internet institutions. You allow smaller players to create content. That's what Nintendo is doing with a tool kit called "WiiWare".
They're sharing their technology with smaller independent programmers and will allow them to sell their games online through the Wii store. So far, all that's available there is nintendo created ports of older classics. But soon, for low,low prices like 5 bucks or so, you can buy all kinds of interesting games from a variety of new sources and download and play them through your Wii. It's the same model Mozilla uses with Firefox and its extensions.

In doing so, Nintendo has decentralized creativity. It understands that a platform is only as good as its games. So, the more creative people making games the better. They "get it".