One of the print-based computer game magazines recently had a round-up of old school single player RPGs going back to the 1970s. One of the games they didn’t mention which was Telengard. Telengard was written by Daniel Lawrence who also wrote DND on a DECSystem-20 back in 1976/77 which is possibly the first computer RPG…
March, 2006
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According to DW-World.De, researchers have discovered what the Nebra disc was used for: The 3,600 year old disc was unearthed in Germany in 1999. Scholars have determined that the disc was a device used to keep lunar and solar calendars aligned. The disc was used to determine when to add a 13th month to resynchronize…
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InfoWorld’s Jon Udell writes about the the silly security holes that can exist when people obsess about forms and internal data security and don’t take a step back to look at a system as a whole. In the example he writes about, Udell is able to gather a lot of information about people who go…
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Not much in the way of details, but late last year Marvel settled its lawsuit against NCSoft, makers of MMORPG “City of Heroes.” Marvel had sued NCSoft saying the ability of players to make characters that looked very similar to Marvel heroes represented copyright and trademark infringements. This was pretty clearly a defeat for Marvel…
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Through a strange series of events today I wound up with a copy of a sampler disc for Christian band Apologetix. Normally I’m not exactly a member of the core target market for Christian music, but Apologetix has a clever gimmick — they do Christian parodies of hit pop songs. I’d say they’re a lot…
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Reuters has coverage of La la Media Inc’s plan to facilitate swapping of CDs between individuals. The idea seems to be that you’d register on their site, and then list all the CDs you own as well as ones you want to trade for. You then put the CDs La la Media requests in Netflix-style…
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As long-time readers probably known, I absolutely detest Salon.Com. Still, when I received a spam purporting to be from Salon Media Group asking me to re-up my subscription recently, even I had to do a double-take. Yes they have lousy judgment, poor ethics and a trash tabloid aesthetic, but even Salon.Com’s publishers wouldn’t try to…
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Not being a Christian, in my world the Holy Trinity looks something like this, 1. The Prisoner 2. Buffy: The Vampire Slayer 3. Bablyon 5, the Third Season I spent about a month and a half watching the 3rd season of B5 over and over on DVD. It got so bad at one point that…
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IDW has an awesome-looking new take on The Transformers, putting Optimus Prime and company at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Hmmm…how about a 30 Days of Transformers crossover? I’d buy the action figures.
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Excellent Lego version of Katamari Damacy: