Ken Newquist An e-mail promising free Applebees gift certificates for forwarding it to your friends is a hoax. The e-mail is similar in spirit and syntax to a Cracker Barrel hoax that’s also circulating. And like that piece, the only thing this bit of annoying net-flotsam is good for is annoying your friends. Here’s the e-mail: Date … Read more
They’re out there. Lurking in the shadows. Waiting to strike at a moments notice. They’re renegade medical students, and they’re hell bent on stealing your kidneys and selling them on the blackmarket! Or not. The infamous kidney thieves are a classic urban legend, transported on to the net and given new life in the 21st … Read more
How good is Gran Turismo 3? Well, consider this: I don’t like racing games – they’ve always seemed repetitive and boring. I don’t drool of cars, and aside from my Jeep Wrangler, I’ve never had much interest in them. I’m your typical geek, more interested in computers and RPGs than horsepower and RPMs. And I … Read more
It’s not often that I pick up a role-playing game rule book that’s so compelling a read that I have a hard time putting it down. Fading Suns d20 is one of those games. I bought the 2nd edition hardcover rulebook for the original game at GenCon 2000, and read through the book in less … Read more
iDisk is Apple’s net-based disk drive that’s mountable to any Mac, and accessible from any computer running Windows 98 or better or Unix. And it rules. As a writer, web designer and all around geek, I spend my life on computers. And that means that I inevitably start a story or project on one machine, … Read more
Troll Lord Games sent us a press release today announcing that it’s d20 Adventure Setting “The Lost City of Gaxmoor” by Ernie and Luke Gygax is now available for immediate shipment from Wizards Attic (Troll Lord Games). The Lost City beckons braves adventurers to explore its ruins and crypts, and to vanquish the chaos and … Read more
An scare e-mail claiming that gang members are placing a deadly LSD/strychnine combination on public telephones shows no signs of being true. In 1998 a rumor spread around the Net that drug addicts were placing HIV-contaminated needles in phone booths and that people were getting infected with the virus as they dug out their change. … Read more
Forget the killer tomatos, the bananas are the ones you need to look out for. See they’ve already wiped out the monkey population in Costa Rica, and have landed advance troops in major North American cities. Run for your lives! Or not. You see, the “necrotizing fasciitis” infected bananas don’t exist. And now, two years … Read more
They lurk, deep beneath your hair, nesting close to your scalp, waiting patiently to hatch and wreak destruction upon the landscape of your head. No, they’re not head lice. Or fleas. Or ticks. They’re spiders … swarming, nasty, black spiders and they’re going to devour your skull! Or not. The ‘bugs in the hair-do’ urban … Read more
Mutant chickens are running amok in the fast food industry! In an effort to save costs, Kentucky Fried Chicken ditched its full name, switched to KFC and began using genetically engineer quasi chickens that taste like chicken, but are kept alive through dubious means. Unfortunately for chickens everywhere, this is a hoax. I first debunked … Read more