Boing! Boing! links to a scan of an advertisment that Wizards of the Coast has been running in gaming magazines ripping on massively multipler online roleplaying games. The ad shows a young man in a darkened room sitting in front of his computer with the copy, If you’re going to sit in your basement pretending…
September, 2005
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Over at O’Reilly, Kendall Clark writes about the joys of what he calls primitive computing — specifically, the AlphaSmart Neo. Clark writes, The Neo is interesting not because of what it does or what features it has, but what it can’t do and the features it’s missing. It’s all about one thing and one thing…
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Earlier this month, I mentioned my disdain for pagan activist Starhawk. But I did not appreciate just how nutty she is until my wife directed me to Starhawk’s A Pagan Response to Katrina. The article is bizarre through-and-through, but the highlight is the Pat Robertson moment, The forms and names we put on Goddesses, Gods,…
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Last week, Blizzard released the 1.7 patch to World of Warcraft, and in doing so created a bug that today unleashed a virtual plague on many servers today. Included in the patch was a new 20-person raid instance called Zul’Grub. Some creatures in Zul’Grub randomly infect players with a Corrupted Blood, which causes a large…
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Seriously, BigWheelRally.Com sells adult-sized Big Wheels and similar machines for $200-$300. Add accessories and pimp your (Big Wheel) ride. I am so going to get one of these.
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Puffin Graphics — a division of Penguin Books — has published a 176 page black and white grapic novel version of The Wizard of Oz.
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One of the reasons I moved and bought a house was so I could take care of my grandmother. She’s had a lot of heart problems over the past several years and though she still gets around okay, she needs a little extra help sometime. A few weeks ago, she had an angioplasty procedure and…
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The Washington Times has published an extended essay by its editorial page editor Tony Blankley. Blankley argues for World War II-style censorship of the press. What makes this funny is that The Washington Times was itself party to an intelligence disclosure that immeasurably helped Osama Bin Laden and other high-level Al Qaeda figures. In 1998,…
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In March I posted my brief review of the 40th Anniversary Spider-Man CDRom Collection. That was a 9-CD set for about $40 that contained 501 issues of Spider-Man going back to Amazing Fantasy #15. Marvel followed that up with the 44 Years of Fantastic Four on DVD-ROM which collects 550 issues of the Fantastic Four…
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I’m sure no one saw this coming. Palestinian extremists burn down synagogues? Come on, we all know that only those evil Israelis and Americans would ever dare harm the symbols of a major world religion. Those are probably Mossad agents on top of that synagogue. I guess that answers the question, how are they going…