Congrats on your success in defeating the Naughty Sorceress. The first time always seems so fustrating.
I suggest having a dozen chow meins in your inventory before you ascend. I also recommend you go to the Untinkerer to have him untinker your Bitchin Meatcar before you ascend. (Dope Wheels and Meat Engines can come with […]

I don’t know why, but we thought if they ever needed to, our cats probably should know how to swim. Thinking the internet would certainly provide some kind of resource for this kind of thing, I performed a half-assed search through Google and Flickr. After about 2 minutes of searching (that’s about my attention span […]

Spring has officially arrived, but the cherry blossoms where 9th St meets Stuyvesant St have not…

Brian Worthen of CIO magazine [via digg] throws up a complicated and colorful map of the North American Internet backbone. It’s basically a representation of a bunch of fiber optic cable and 100,000+ routers. (Full PDF version available for download here)

The map is color coded by ownership, with Verizon and AT&T taking up sizable, but […]

NPR’s Morning Edition (via kotaku) aired an interesting interview this past Friday. The topic was about how earnings within massively-multiplayer-online-games (World of WarCraft, Second Life) are commonly transferrable to real world currency, but these transactions are largely beneath the radar of the IRS.
While there’s nothing new about the gold-farming phenomemon around the world, the racism […]

Way back in elementary school, I went through a phase triggered by a mini-seminar on Rube Goldberg devices. In case you weren’t in my 4th grade class, Rube Goldberg devices are contraptions that generally take a circuitous route in accomplishing rather mundane tasks. Think of the board game Mousetrap

After I got home from school, […]

I may be slightly behind the cutting edge when it comes to games, but these two titles (one old, one new) have piqued my curiosity.
Spore is Will Wright’s (creator of SimCity/The Sims) latest project currently set for release in Fall 2006. You take the reigns of the life of a one-celled organism, leading it through […]

..But they’re oh so fresh.
Should I be ashamed to have both the Cat and the Cow? Nope. I want ‘em all. My 1 yr old niece likes them. Shouldn’t you?
UPDATE: In case you were wondering, when linked up like a pastoral Voltron, they sing in harmony with each other. Depending on their positioning, one of […]

he-man, mr. t AND hulk hogan versus the bush administration? bring it on hulkamaniacs!