Ken Newquist I’ve always loved going to the bookstore, even more than going to the library. As a kid in middle school, my mom would leave me at Encore Books in Chester, N.J. while she went grocery shopping in the nearby Shoprite. I’d happily sit on the floor, browsing my way through the science fiction and humor … Read more
We’ve all read the articles about background music you can use in your pen-and-paper RPGs, but how do you go about actually using it? The default in our game is for me to throw on one of the Lord of the Rings soundtracks, which is ok, but it also leads to the music not really … Read more
Right now estimates are that 1 out of every 12 pieces of e-mail flying around the net is infected with the MyDoom worm, a statistic that puts the worm on track to out pace earlier infections by a wide margin.
SCI-FI.com is reporting that Tim Minear has been hired to do the screenplay adaptation for Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. That’s excellent news — the novel’s been in limbo for forever and a day. The weird thing is how SCI-FI describes the book: “The novel deals with a 2076 rebellion on a former penal colony on the moon and has been read as an allegory about libertarianism and its costs.”
A tragedy-filled, tear-jerking e-mail claims you’re a heartless if you don’t forward an e-mail that will net a distraught mother .12 cents from AOL for every person you send it to. But if you do forward it, what you’ll be missing isn’t your heart — it’ll be another essential organ that usually resides inside your … Read more
Free money and Outback Steakhouse gift certificates await those who forward an e-mail tracking e-mail everyone in their address book. But like all of the emails promising big money and free stuff for annoying your friends and family, the RH Power Inc./Outback Steakhouse e-mail is a hoax. Here’s the original e-mail: Date Collected: 4/1/2001 OUTBACK … Read more
To the Moon … or at least the Third Floor: Jordan’s mastered stairs. She first tried climbing them at my friend Lance’s house on New Year’s Eve, and quickly decided that if she could do those stairs, she could do the slightly steeper ones back at home. After a few trial attempts that took her … Read more
If there’s one thing I don’t like about Mac OS X, it’s that it’s all too easy to delete a printer. I’ve done it a few times when I thought I was deleting a print job. At the very least, I’d like to see some sort of “Are you sure you want to delete this … Read more
An e-mail that claims that life won’t be beautiful if you unleash a virus hidden in a Power Point attachment is a hoax. The hoax says the name of this nefarious hoax is “Life is Beautiful” and claims it will simultaneously cause you to lose everything on your computer and give the evil hacker “life … Read more
“Plone!” screamed the Tick as he attempted to hack his way through the wilderness of Content Management Software. “Plone!” he shouted, as he finally found a solution that looked like it would work. “… plone…” he whimpered, as he realized just how freaking complicated process of customizing an open source CMS would be. Of course, … Read more