Today’s UserFriendly Strip is really actually quite funny. I don’t always think Iliad’s work is fantastic, but he hits a good joke often enough to keep me reading. For those of you who don’t know the context, this article on Ars Technica gives the rundown pretty well. Synopsis: CMP Media and O’Reilly have trademarked “Web [...]

So now that I’m not running L-Space I don’t have to be running Windows for my server and I should be able to get a configuration that doesn’t have the comment posting issues that I’ve currently got. So today I’m trying out FreeBSD and Ubuntu Linux on a couple of test boxes to see how [...]

PopCap Games has a new game out: Hammer Heads. I saw the announcement in their regular newsletter and gave it a try. It’s basically a hideously well done whack-a-mole variant that is good enough that I have already registered my copy. Damn crack pushers! Tags: game, pop

I heard the announcement this week that the people behind Puzzle Pirates are working on a new game called Bang! Howdy. I really enjoyed Puzzle Pirates for awhile and will be signing up for the beta and hopefully playing some this weekend. Tags: game

Ed Bott reports on a new backup option in some versions of Windows Vista that is decidely like Symantec’s Ghost utility. The really exciting thing though, is the possibility that the disk images may be in the VHD format that is used by Virtual PC/Virtual Server! It would be so amazingly handy to be able [...]

BevNet’s new BevBlog has a theory on energy drink flavors that has more than an inkling of truth to it. I personally can’t stand any of the “energy” drinks that I’ve ever tried and basically have just given up on them entirely. Besides, they almost all have too much caffeine for any normal human, much [...]

People were pretty thoroughly blown away when Microsoft introduced the TerraServer back in the mid 90′s. There, on the web, were millions of acres of scenary from declassified satellite imagery. You could see your house. Heck, sometimes you could see your car. Various services have offered various modifications to the basic idea since then, but [...]

This makes two issues in 4 days with local amusement parks. Do people actually expect this stuff to be safe? No tag for this post.

Something I thought was worth copying from my recently updated OKCupid profile: In particular I really enjoy the way Gene Wolfe throws the reader into a world where the rules are not set in stone until just after page 100, when everything suddenly snaps into focus and the story takes off at a brisk meander. [...]

I just got out of seeing a preview screening of X3 and there are some positive things to say about it. All of the hair was really well done. The Stan Lee cameo was decent. It was better than Elektra. It might even be better than The Hulk. Unfortunately that’s about all the good things [...]