Probably old news, but I got a huge kick out of this: http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html
http://avantgame.com/key.htm Doubt that I’ll plunk down the $28, but this does seem like it oughtta deliver on its promises: "We guarantee that for as long as you search for your lock, surprising people and places will reveal their secrets to you. We cannot guarantee that you will ever find the lock that your key opens. [...]
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002621198_seatac13.html
Insert software joke here. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/69B5A23CB6ACF3F1862570B5001C7AA4?OpenDocument
Unreal! http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html
Lately, I’ve seen a new type of spam-like thing emerging. It’s always some email or web advertisement that offers you some incredible incentive (free laptop! free XBox 360! free beachfront house!) for your opinion on some completely irrelavent subject (should Bush be replaced? which is better WalMart or Fred Meyer? which Olsen sister is cuter?). [...]
So, I don’t claim to understand the numbers in Lost, but it’s a rare episode where I don’t notice some patterns. In this episode, the numbers "108" and "540" both came up. 108 is the sum of the "4 8 15 16 23 42" numbers, and 540 is 5 times that much. Now, that’s great, [...]
The New York Times started running somewhat-regular mini-extravaganzas* back on July 4, 2003. It actually succeeded in selling me a copy of the paper for the first one. After I found out that one was published online, I stopped rushing out to score a hardcopy, but I have followed along closely online. I think you’ll [...]
When I tuned in to "The Eyes of Nye", I was expecting more of the same "science with a comedic nerd" style stuff that I got from Bill Nye the Science Guy (Science Rules!). Wow, was I disappointed. I watched my first episode, Genetically Modified Foods, and was expecting a science education, but what I [...]
[Wow--better get it in gear on this series of posts, or I'll forget everything I have to say about it!] Read the first part of this series to get caught up, and then continue reading below. I’ll throw in a brief mention here of the application process for those of you who aren’t familiar with [...]