I just finished my third listen through of the new live album from Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, titled “Ascona”. I think my only complaint with the album is that it is kind of front loaded. I usually don’t have quite this much trouble remembering what I just heard after the middle of the album when I [...]

First things: For anyone who missed it the few times it’s made it’s way around the web there is a very entertaining video produced by EepyBird.com that replicates the (IIRC) Belagio fountain in Las Vegas with Diet Coke and Mentos. This morning in my inbox is their most recent newsletter mentioning that they’re putting up [...]

Some things should be linked to because they are probably talking about you. Right this moment, that link is to Charles Stross talking about where SF books need to go to regain marketshare. Even if you don’t care about reading SF anymore, there is a central core that is a very interesting analysis of what [...]

I’m playing with a new music social network web toy right now called Qloud. It’s very similar to Last.fm which I have been playing with for a couple of years now, but in some ways the service might have a better outlook. So far the service is pretty rough. Searching from the main page can [...]

I just got a fairly unexpected email: NCSoft has reactivated my City of Heroes/City of Villains account for the weekend. It seems that they are launching a new retail combo-box of both editions of the game (Available only at that bastion of retail hell: Walmart) and want to try and get lapsed players, like myself, back into the [...]

So today we find out that WoW: Burning Crusade will be a retail package and be available in regular and Expensive Collector’s editions. The thing that irritates me? They still don’t have a release date other than “late 2006″. (On a side note, I’m also a bit irritated that the last class to get information [...]