8-bit gaming meets the modern MMOG: NEStalgia is an original MMORPG inspired by the glory days of traditional console RPGs. Essentially “Dragon Warrior 3 meets World of Warcraft”, NEStalgia is an amalgam of the best generations of RPG gaming. Wage classic turn based battles using a multiplayer party system, and enjoy modern trappings such as a full-featured quest system and hordes of epic loot to find. We even have a WoW-style Auction House for item trading!...

Chris Bowler wrote about his schedule, and the need to carve out some more time. His idea? Steal an hour and a half from his sleep time each week day. The experiment: I’m going to take two weeks and see how I operate on 5 hours of sleep per night. That probably sounds a little crazy, but there are a few caveats. 1) This will only be for nights before a weekday, Sunday to Thursday....

James Shelley poses an excellent question: If everyone has everyone’s attention the value of attention is nullified. Thus to avoid mental bankruptcy, navigating an “attention economy” means saving, investing and being cunningly conscientious of your own attention. If you treated your attention as a monetary value, would you be considered broke, middle class or well-invested? In regard to the Internet, services like Instapaper, Readability, and sites like Read & Trust will become more valuable as information continues to proliferate....

Aperture is always “improving” but never becomes great. I often felt that I was fighting it to get my work done. Lightroom is consistently good and very stable. I’ve never felt that I was fighting it. I try to avoid Adobe products where possible due to the (often) poor interface design; however, Marco’s statement is exactly why I settled on Lightroom. Aperture felt like slogging through mud most of the time....

Kurt Vonnegut gave some wise advice in this article back in 2008. Why should you examine your writing style with the idea of improving it? Do so as a mark of respect for your readers, whatever you’re writing. If you scribble your thoughts any which way, your readers will surely feel that you care nothing about them. They will mark you down as an egomaniac or a chowderhead — or, worse, they will stop reading you....

After considering for months on end, reading reviews, testing out the software version on the PC, Mac, and iPhone, and actually testing one out at a store, I finally purchased an Amazon Kindle 3G. Here are some “unboxing” pictures. I am very happy with my Kindle. Thanks to Frank Chimero for answering some of my questions about it earlier this week. As it turns out, I only tried to tap the screen once....

Go figure. I just ordered my copy of HTML5 for Web Designers from A Book Apart, and Ian Hickson announces this change. I wonder if A Book Apart will change the name of the book for the next print run. In any case, it is excellent news that the HTML specification is no longer a draft.

As time passes , the more I realize it’s all that really matters. All this, just about everything I write here, it’s all about time. Time is the one thing we can never get back once it’s gone.

Noah Stokes reflects on 34 years of life.

Not the game. Stop typing as though you are still using a typewriter.