Kym Huynh

With the recent leak of game details for the upcoming Will Wright game, Spore, it was only reasonable that your hosts Kym Huynh and Alehkhs dedicated this episode to the day that will live forever in infamy as the “Text Dump Bonanza”. Join us as we reveal top secret details and discuss all the latest and greatest in Spore related news.

• Intelligent Design in Spore
• Penis Monsters
• Spore Text Dump and more Spore Text Dumps
• Spore: It’s a game after all but maybe even more
• Spore Bridging the Gap Between Gamers and Non-Gamers
• Help file for full game extracted
• Spore Creature Creator Beats The Sims 2 and World of Warcraft
• Moving on from Penis Monsters
• No Plants in the Official Release of Spore

On today’s edition of Best of the Net, Kym’s going to show you a site with some of the best tutorials around - www.photojojo.com

On this week’s show: Irrelevant picks, irreverent humor, and much more that doesn’t necessarily start with the letters I-R-R.

• Brian Gardner releases Revolution City Theme
• Kym is writing a song as a prize for the plugin competition
• Top 3 underrated WP plugins
• WP 2.6 Beta 1
• Beth’s pick: DidTheyReadIt
• Dave’s pick: AskApache Password Protect
• Kym’s pick: SEO Smart Links
• Today is Unofficial International WordPress Day! Write your post or comment to be included in the drawing.

Today’s site is for all of you who just want to make your life a little easier to live. Either making it a bit more productive, a bit more organized, or just generally easier to live. It’s appropriately named Lifehacker.

Join Kym Huynh, Joe Toomey and Alehkhs as we introduce to everyone the world’s first Spore podcast.

• Creature Creator at Spore
• A brief overview of the game
• Bringing together all the features of the best games
• Content Sharing
• Can the content be filtered?
• Spore gets 130,000 creations in the first day
• The Spore release date revealed
• A little bit about Will Wright
• Adult themed creatures at Spore
• Spore Galactic Edition announced
• Spore Expansion Packs
• Procedural Animation Differences
• Is there too much hype for Spore?
• Syncing content in Spore?
• The Unique Multiplayer Concept
• Back to the Spore hype!
• Penis Monsters
• People getting suspended for penis monsters and bitchin’-a-saurs
• User generated content the new sweatshop of the 21st century?
• The war on user generated content
• Public Service Announcement: Naming an entire race of creatures “Bobby” is bad!

On today’s show, Kym will show us a great site if you want to learn a bit of the… less optimistic history out there, Today in Rotten History, because we live in a slightly mad world.

On today’s Cool Site, we’re turning the spotlight on a great little site to learn and use HTML: HTML Playground.

When I logged onto my computer last night to do a last-minute blog post before hitting the pillow, I was surprised, but in a good way, at the title of the first post in the WordPress dashboard.

I had a sneaking suspicion that it could be, might not be, but most likely was, a post about me. Interest turned to suspicion, suspicion to tempered excitement, and tempered excitement to elation as I discovered that I had unintentionally invaded all the blogs on the Internet powered by the WordPress engine.

I finally did it everyone. I invaded the WordPress blogs of millions of people everywhere in the form of the latest news post by WordPress guru Mark Gosh from the Weblog Tools Collection. In the dashboards of everyone everywhere are little news posts titled “Uber Unique Prize for Plugin Competition”. Click here to read the post.

The annual WordPress Plugin Competition has started with a prize pool of over $3,500 USD for the winners. There’s already some great plugins developed for the competition including personal favorite of mine SEO Smart Links by Vladimir Prelovac.

If you are a plugin developer, get in there and enter the competition! Maybe I’ll even write a song for you. As for me… what next? World domination of course whahey!

We’re all here this week for a WordCast that will knock your socks off! (Please pick them up. We don’t like socks on the floor.) From stats, premium websites, to German plugins, you’ll find it all in this week’s show.

• WordPress stats are so awesome, even MovableType’s using it. (Even though none of us do!)
• Top Gear Magazine’s blog is now on WordPress
• Info on WP 2.6… is this new?
• WPforSale.com is a listing of everything WordPress that’s NOT free.
• $3500+ in prizes for the Weblog Tools Collection plugin contest!
• Tip of the Week: Moving WordPress within your site
• Blogger’s Glossary
• Beth’s pick: WordPress Voting plugin
• Kym’s pick: SEO Friendly Images plugin
• Dave’s (German) pick: Reveal IDs plugin
• Twitter’s got some problems. But we love it anyway.