Fishel, don't you know these guys?

Former Ink & Dagger drummer sues Microsoft.

I Call Him "Gamblor"...

...and he resides at my place tomorrow night. Who's in?

Because, c'mon...

Time hole? That's always funny.

Carmen Sandiego stops fucking around

And now, the best photo of George Takei ever.

George Takei, outed on CNN.

Mac Users Get Love, Too

Looks like you artsy Mac-usin' homos will get to enjoy Civ4 as well.

Adventure games aren't dead

My new dream job is making games like these.

Happy Halloween!

FREDERICA, Del. - The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said...

The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said. The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles.

State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank.

Can I get a hell yes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, White House counsel Harriet Miers, announced on Thursday she was withdrawing her name from consideration.

There's not enough news out there.

From BBC Tech:

Bittorent User Guilty of Piracy.

The tests came back: you are human a dude

So When You Say "Arts District..."

So I heard on the radio this morning that the Everyman Theater was recently denied permission by the city to expand into the abandoned remains of the Chesapeake Restaraunt. Instead, in light of the fact that the Mayor has declared Station North the "arts and culture" district, they instead awarded development rights to that building to a company who is going to build a high-rise apartment on the location. That just makes so much fucking sense. Discuss!

Thoughts on Pits

Star Wars Bottomless Pit Final Score Tuesday Morning Quarterback tracks the bottomless pits that often turn up in sci-fi. There was no bottomless pit in Revenge of the Sith, making the Star Wars final score: bottomless pits in four of the six flicks. Previously, Official Brother of TMQ, Frank, noted that none of the Star Wars bottomless pits are surrounded by safety rails, indicating there was no OSHA long ago in that galaxy far away. Yours truly countered that the scenes prove enlightened self-interest does not exist in the Skywalker galaxy, since you should not need a burdensome government agency to tell you to erect a guard rail around your bottomless pit!

Never resolved was why there were so many bottomless pits in the first place. My speculation is technological: advanced future economies will somehow depend on the construction and maintenance of bottomless pits, possibly as conduits for dark energy (see below). Frank's guess is more straightforward. In the 1970s and 1980s, he speculates, it was a lot of work to fill in complex scenes, so matte artists simply had the bottoms of long chambers blur to oblivion. Now computer animation allows dozens or hundreds of moving objects in a scene. Thus, instead of people fighting at the edges of pits, the final Star Wars flick offered scenes of people standing or fighting at the edges of incredibly tall structures where complicated cities, chambers or landscapes were visible beneath. Indeed, there were many such scenes in Revenge of the Sith. But still no guard rails! In one scene, Anakin stopped his flying car at Padme's spectacular penthouse apartment, atop a building miles high with a panoramic view of the planet. (The ad must have read, 10 RMS PLNT VU.) The soon-to-be-Darth Vader parked at a pad next to the aerial terrace; Padme, R2 and 3PO came out to greet him. All stood right at the edge of the balcony, which had no rails or protection between them and a very, very long fall. But then if Padme could afford such a magnificent penthouse, perhaps she could afford force fields for her balcony.

esquivalience

n. the willful avoidance of one’s official responsibilities . . . late 19th cent.: perhaps from French esquiver, “dodge, slink away.”

... a word which serves as the OED's own little copy protection scheme.

Free's just another word for nothing left to sell out

In a press release on October 20, Answers.com announced a new partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation. Answers.com will launch a Wikipedia Edition of their popular 1-Click Answers software. Advertising revenues from this service will be shared with the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wiki'd here. Discussion's cooler... I love the "watch out for slashbots" advisory running on top of the page.

have you heard the one about the professor, the slut and the football player?

probably.

the results of latest philly-more collaboration are available online.

things to watch for:

1. science-fiction
2. a rock star named t.j. mendelschwartz or something.
3. a funnel.
4. a person saying, "wow! can i touch it?"

"this is definitely a sitcom parody." chris harring, the jerk store

Everyone's favorite videogame director....

Just inked a deal to make a movie based on the game Postal. The reason for choosing Mr. Boll was, and i shit you not, “He understands the subject matter and has an appreciation and affinity for controversy and political incorrectness.”

XBox 360 hates you.

Or at least your wireless network.

Over the past week, a bunch of playable XBox 360 kiosks have shown up at local WalMarts. Thing is, they're not turned on. Why? Because at almost every wal-mart that has one, as soon as they turned the kiosk on, all of the wireless barcode scanners, printers, and handheld UPC scanners completely stopped working.

Fantastic.

Via Joystiq.

Attn: Sigur Ròs fans

They have a new album out, Takk... The first six tracks of this album are the best they've ever done. The remaining five... eh. So if one were a patron of some sort of new-fashioned store in which you can purchase tracks individually for a low price... well, you have my advice.

If you don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, listen. (Skip to 30:15 if you get bored.)

p.s. anyone know how to turn audio streams into mp3s?

Mandlebrot