I have just had what may be the geekiest dream in history. I was reading Matthew Yglesias's new book (which I think had to do with how the Left throws better parties but the Right throws parties with maximized strategic value), and I was going through the endnotes. After a long section of citations from Star Trek: Voyager, I came across the story ( Read more... )

I currently have 4 books and one CD in my Amazon shopping cart, and I was looking at Amazon's blurb for "The Page You Made," when it struck me that the top two items were The Road To Disunion, based on rahael's recommendation, and Donald E. Westlake's new Dortmunder caper, The Road To Ruin. I thought that was an interesting synchronicity, though not ( Read more... )

If you enjoy witty wordplay, devious dilemmas, annoying adherence to alliteration and throwing your computer and/or palmpilot across the room, then you'll love Nick Montfort's Ad Verbum, a wicked little text adventure that reads like what might have resulted had Infocom ditched Douglas Adams and hired John Sladek. Set in the condemned mansion of ( Read more... )

I lost a filling today. Wahhh!!! So tomorrow, I have to not only say goodbye to rahael, but say hello to the dentist.

From the first political preference quiz disguised as a first-person shooter:


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Attention: if there is a power outage while you are driving, and the stoplights aren't getting their required electricity, please note that you should treat every stoplight as though it is a stopsign. And if you choose instead to run right through them, you definitely shouldn't get on my ass just because I do ( Read more... )

anadamous points out the Hamlet text adventure. I'm a bit disappointed that I ventured into the basement without a light source and was not instantly killed by a Grue.