RIP to Gary Gygax :(

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Yummy steampunk computer mods, guitar mods, robots, RSS feed telegraphs and more. Gorgeousness and gorgeousity!

For those unfamiliar with steampunk, here's a wikipedia article on the subject.

Har, massive revolt in the digg community. For those who remember the good old days of interweb civil disobediance, there was some C++ code that would permit Linux users to rip DVDs to their hard drives so they could watch DVDs on their machines, since there was no official, licensed "DVD player" for the *nix community, given the open source model ( Read more... )

lol.

I love Carmen.

also: http://dimethirwen.livejournal.com/354107.html

Some of the geekier things I've come across this morning.

First off is the clash of the titans - in this case, Google vs Microsoft.

With a $10 billion advertising market at stake, Google, the fast-rising Internet star, is raising objections to the way that it says Microsoft, the incumbent powerhouse of computing, is wielding control over Internet ( Read more... )

Man, this story is hot.

"Look, I don't wanna do nothin' weird or strange or anything. I just wanna fuck a bunch of meat that you got in your huge ol' meat locker. Listen, don't any of you stupid fuckers understand what I'm sayin'?" I stated in an agitated manner.

I <3 textfiles.com. Nostalgic and stuff like THIS ( Read more... )

My personal hero, Seanbaby, tackles the worst games based on TV shows.

The whole archive is here.

I don't normally talk much about television, because I'm trying to break into the scientist business, and you look smarter if you brag about how you don't have a TV. Sometimes I'm so smart I don't even know what a TV is. To me, the words "Perfect ( Read more... )

In the past, I know I've mentioned Legend of the Red Dragon. It was an old BBS game, with an RPG theme (hitpoints, experience, levels, armor, etc.). Now there's a much larger web-based game based on the original, called Legend of the Green Dragon. You can even host your own game. Pretty fun stuff. Maura, do make sure Sean sees this ( Read more... )

In connection with my earlier post from today (sorta)... new Rockstar game called Bully

Rockstar games, publisher of the Grand Theft Auto series, has announced today that a new game, Bully, will be coming to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox this October. This is the first game being developed by Rockstar Vancouver and it follows the story of a ( Read more... )