Left the geeks alone in the lab again, huh?

Looks like some folks are doing early warp dynamics studies on the upgraded Constitution-class vessels…

bow shock of NCC-1701

You can check out the results at the University of Queensland’s Laser Diagnostics site.

Darkness falls on Sanrio

Hey barb, after you’ve weaned Alex from Power Ranger checkers and Pokemon chess, you can teach him this game! (click here for a larger image)

Hello Kitty 40,000 AD

Ready to LAN Par-tay

Blizzard Entertainment announced their OS X 1.0.9d patches for both Diablo II and the Lord of Destruction expansion pack. The carbonized patch allows gamers to play the Classic Mac OS version of Diablo II in X and introduce their Barbarians and Necromancers to the world outside Classic.

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

Just did a Rocky Horror showing at TCon 19, thanks to Barb’s video room… now it looks like a local club will be running it midnight Friday and Saturday at the Cinema Cafe. $3.50 for tickets, $2 for a prop kit. Tolls of Madness is the link. We might go to the Saturday showing after TCon Dead Dog.

More Oscar Fallout

This was part of last night’s “Vote Early, Vote Often!” poll on As The Apple Turns, a weekday Mac news and rumors site. Some of the choices only make sense if you follow Mac stuff carefully: however…

“What did you find most disappointing about the 74th Annual Academy Awards?”

3) Boy, you’d think that Halle Berry could have mustered up at least a little emotion
4) Not nearly enough onscreen violence between the Pixarians and the Shrek team
5) After sixteen nominations, Randy Newman only finally won once he started to look eerily like Roger Ebert

This could get expensive.

According to kittykatya, my friend Denise saw me as Magenta at Technicon‘s showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and commented that I had “legs up to there”.

So, basically, all the compliments on appearance I received last weekend came from: a) the white dinner jacket / black slacks combo, or b) the black vinyl maid’s outfit with the fishnet hose.

Apparently I need to rethink my wardrobe.

Half-Life: what most computer gamers are lucky to have

I finally finished Deus Ex last night. It’s a computer game set in a cyberpunk near-future world where civilisation is completely dependent on a futuristic Internet, and a mysterious plague is ravaging humanity – though it seems to leave the rich and powerful untouched. You begin the game playing a technologically enhanced special agent for the UN Anti-Terrorist Organization, but by the end, your loyalties have shifted multiple times as you learn more about what’s really going on and who you really are.

At the end of the game, I had three choices (each of which would require some difficult gameplay):

1) Join myself to the master computer controlling and monitoring the Internet (as the bad guy had intended to), and help it rule the world, hopefully with compassion and ethics…

2) Shut down the computer and help the Illuminati (who aided me through the latter half of the game) to return to secretly manipulating humanity from behind the scenes – with myself as one of the new puppeteers…

3) Destroy the computer in a manner that would wipe out the future Internet and give the world the chance to choose its own path out of the mini-Dark Age which would follow.

In the end, I chose option 1. But boy did they leave themselves plot threads for Deus Ex 2, now in pre-production…

And of course, the week I finially get Deus Ex out of the way, Ambrosia Software releases Escape Velocity: Nova. If one owns a Macintosh, the Escape Velocity games are the kind of games where you sit down to play 30 minutes and come out of your hypnosis 6 hours later; this one’s the newest, prettiest, and plays under OS X…

…what’s that, Blizzard? You say you expect the OS X version of Diablo 2 to be ready in about 15 days? Nooooo….

Where’s that lottery money?

So, this morning in Tokyo, Steve Jobs announced a 10 gigabyte iPod for $500. I’m not sure that if added every CD I own to my MP3 collection that I’d have 10 gigs, even if I tossed in a gig of files to use it as an emergency boot drive. Heck, put a color screen on that puppy and you could watch ripped DVDs off of it!

Apple: “Yes, we’re expensive. But isn’t this cool?”

Hey! Stop laughing when we’re making fun of you!

A group of American Indian (and other) students at Northern Colorado University have created a team logo and mascot supposedly intended to educate the public about how hurtful ethnic stereotypes are: the NCU “Fighting Whites”.

However, in an unfortunate twist to their message, the t-shirts seem to be selling well to all ethnic persuasions – white people included.

http://www.cafepress.com/fightinwhite/ is the address, for the curious out there.

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