Ramblings

I used to have a Mad magazine that would advertise “Completetly useless hand grenades for sale, missing firing pins” right next to “hand grade firing pins for sale” on the back cover. I checked my RSS feeds today and saw these two items right on top of each other: 2 Read more

This should have been the Watergate of the Bush administration. Instead this schmuck Libby takes the fall and Bush and Cheney walk away without a scracth. Does anyone believe that this guy leaks info to reporters on ANYTHING without the express consent of his boss? Come on. I’m happy that Read more

My friend Ian is a Macolyte. When he forwarded me this Time article about the iPhone I figured it was just another fluff piece. At a base price of $499 and available only on Cingular, should other handset manufacturers really be worried. Well, yes, of course they should, but what Read more

I was walking through a WHSmith’s in Scotland on Dec 30 when I saw the front page headline of one of the tabloids there: “Saddam Hangs Today”. I was mildly annoyed that my New Years thoughts were being interrupted by this spectacle. I was all for the execution of such Read more

A video interview with Joe Miller, the founder of Second Life. For my buddy Ian, who first showed me Second Life. And for Mark Lorenc, who first got me into immersive online experiences by introducing me to City of Heroes. I love this stuff. So “sci-fi-comes-to-life”. The stuff of all Read more

According to InfoWorld the French/German marriage initially conceived to fight Google’s book digitization dominance has broken up. I thought this was a cute news item when it first came to prominence almost two years ago. The curator of the French National Library apparently convinced Chirac that it was imperative that Read more

This is great. I love this stuff. This just goes to show what fantastic value can be delivered by the combination of video and broadband Internet connection. A few weeks ago Ann and Anja went on a Christmas shopping trip to London, after which Ann wrote about it on her Read more

This clip is seriously one of the funniest things I have ever seen. You just have to love sites like YouTube, GoogleVideo, and this one, VidiLife for the shit that you can find for free on the Internet. God bless the Internet and the normal distribution curve of natural selection Read more

My friend Mark introduced me to the world of massively multi-player online role playing games (MMORPGs). As a former comic book collector, I simply had to give City of Heroes a try as my first MMORPG. I have to admit, for a few months I did little else in my Read more