"Multiplayer Design Lead Tyson Green checked a week ago in with a lengthy explanation of the melee system in Halo 3, how it’s different from Halo 2’s what worked about both versions, what didn’t work and how it’s being addressed by the auto update. here's a reminder of what he explained." Via Offworld, this frankly excellent explanation of a Halo 3 patch from early 2008, explaining the problems latency brough to melee combat, and why Bungie implemented their solutions as they did. Clear, educational, and it feels like the right answer. More writing like this, please, games industry!

"Maps, databases and other resources that help you dig deeper." A shame the raw data isn't available, but great they're collating this stuff and seeing it as another channel of news they provide.

A visualisation plugin for Mint: Tufte Mint’s design is focused on maximizing data-ink and minimizing chartjunk and decoration.

Tiny system-monitoring widget for OSX's dashboard

I'll need to install this quite soon.

Configuring Mint for Typo - and, by extension, any Rails app

Generating nice dynamic flash graphs using php

Really useful article from Bungie on how Halo2 stats are calculated.

Process your Halo2 stats from RSS in... Excel 2003. Only works in that. But the idea's so good...

perhaps just what i need - simple info on the desktop about mail/itunes/date...