9:42 PM (0 comments)
Over on Boing Boing I saw that this year's SXSW sampler torrents are up--more than a thousand tracks from the bands playing down at SXSW. I grabbed the torrent last year, and found some really great stuff browsing through it in the following months. Jumping on tonight.

3:13 AM (1 comments)
Shining a bright light into the dark corners of comic history, it's a collection of links to the first 39 episodes of Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed over at Comics Should Be Good (via Hembeck.)

12:52 AM (0 comments)
Interesting: Marvel Comics has launched a new source for information on their characters--Marvel Universe an official psuedo-wiki where information is entered by fans and approved by editors. I will be watching its progress with a slightly morbid fascination.

In related wonderment: Paul Kupperberg is leaving DC to become Senior Editor at the Weekly World News?

1:14 PM (2 comments)
So I just watched a video of Will Wright's talk from GDC demonstrating Spore gameplay. I think this must be what people feel like when they find religion. Needless to say, I can't wait to play. (via Trabbold--go check out his shiny new website!)

UPDATE: Trying out the new option by Google Video that allows you to embed the video in your own page:

10:01 PM (1 comments)
Veteran game designer Mike passes along a link to the push by a group to get the Olympic Committee to recognize an Olympic team from Washington D.C..

11:19 AM (1 comments)
Encyclopodia, the Wikipedia on your iPod. I'll be trying this out tonight.

11:14 AM (0 comments)
All over the web today is Raph Koster's What Are the Lessons of MMORPGS Today?

There is always a demand for couriers and assassins.

Moving frequently is normal, and never going back to your old stomping grounds again is the way of things.

There are no such things as social progress or technological advancement.

In fact, evil will always be lurking at the edge of the village.

On the other hand, it will never invade.

There are no governments. Thus there are no laws. Instead, there are laws of physics.

There are gods, and they are capricious, and have way way more than ten commandments. Nobody knows how many because everyone clicked past them.

9:36 AM (0 comments)
Brook points out that Disney is looking to hire an intelligence analyst. I wonder if you'd still have to wear the Ears.

11:51 PM (0 comments)
A new paper suggests that quantum information might be able to escape a black hole...if you believe it can travel faster than c. (See also Wikipedia's Unsolved problems in physics page.)

4:52 PM (0 comments)
A fascinating article summing up the recent Tonbridge heist in England, who might be behind it, and what they would have to do to get away with the crime. (via Metafilter, where the comment thread also pointed to the Wikipedia article on the similar Northern Bank Robbery last year--and the movie Firewall, currently in theaters.)

12:22 AM (0 comments)
If you have some spare computer cycles, maybe you'll want to throw them into the effort to decode Enigma-encoded messages that have gone uncracked since 1942. The project began on January 9th, and one message has already been broken. (via Slashdot.)