Brief post time.

If you have an original previously unpublished story, you can submit to Giganotosaurus, a webzine edited by Ann Leckie. It pays too, a pretty good rate imho ( Read more... )

First, via virginia-fell, is news of allegations of sketchy behavior by Livejournal.

So apparently members of LJ's staff have been using their position to view and comment on locked entries to harass members. People have had their LJ accounts suspended and everything over this nonsense.
That's the serious news. In fun news, I went to a LAN party. There was a ( Read more... )

This is long, 70 minutes in all. I had trouble getting past the odd accent, finding it grating at first, but uncertain if it was faked and thus mockable or genuine. I think it's the former ( Read more... )

Recently I went through our yearly export control, IP, etc. training, and this line caught my eye:

[Company] IP Policy: A contract or supplier agreement with IP provisions is needed if [Company] provides IP to an outside company or requires ownership or rights when working with an outside company. Absent an agreement to the contrary, the creator ( Read more... )

What is it with guys and female avatars? Anyone who plays MMOs or online FPS like Halo knows how the anonymity of the internet can transform otherwise decent people -- though I believe how a person behaves when they think there are no consequences is a reflection of who they really are -- into a "dickwad". You'd think Sony would have taken the ( Read more... )

On impulse I purchased a one month subscription to Bejeweled on my phone. It's not a fancy iphone or anything, just a simple Sanyo clamshell.

This is going to kill my productivity and my battery this month.

I may have found a gem of an ad on Craigslist. It may just be a been a poorly worded ad, but there's the very real and very sad possibility that this is exactly what the person meant.

Manga Style Artist Wanted (Manassas VA ( Read more... )

Did you know the old Game Boy cartridges have batteries in them? I didn't ( Read more... )

girl_gamers is overall a good community. Though “girl” is in the name, and the majority of posting members are female, it’s not exclusive. Males are welcome to come by, get to know their counterparts, and join the chat. Sure, there are some that cause trouble, but overall it’s not the bastion of misandrists some would believe ( Read more... )

In the day of fancy graphics, I think we forgot what makes a game good, though often enough nostalgia paints the past rose colored, and those games we loved may not be as good as we thought. But in order to find some of those classics we had to resort to some questionable means -- IRC and torrent -- as the local gamestore stopped carrying the ( Read more... )