Cope

I am grateful that I have lived to see this day.

Filed under: bbc, news, robot, space on March 14th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

From the BBC: dolphin persuades two whales to stop beaching. 1. Okay, this appears to be evidence of direct communication between different species, neither of which is ours. You want to know what happens next? Ask Roland Emmerich. 2. Maybe now the Japanese will stop… nah. 3. Ecco the Dolphin wasn’t lying to us after all! (Elsewhere, putty-nosed monkeys are using language too.)

Filed under: bbc, real world on March 12th, 2008 | No Comments »

Some years ago, someone—it could have been Andrew Rilstone but I’m honestly not sure—commented that he wished Gary Gygax would hurry up and die, so people would stop talking about what he was doing now (which at the time was Dangerous Journeys, a tedious rules-heavy fantasy RPG at a time when the market was making [...]

Filed under: game design, geek culture, history of games, rpg, tabletop on March 4th, 2008 | 7 Comments »

My World of Warcraft guild just got bOING-bOINGed. How’s your afternoon going?

Filed under: blogosphere, geek culture, mmorpg, world of warcraft on March 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »