Overheard at last night's MV & EE show:

"That dog almost bit my hand off!!!"

When Hitler invaded Russia in 1941 he didn't realize he would end up attacking into the teeth of the worst Russian winter in almost a century-and-a-half, and this winter, for which the Germans were unprepared by anything they'd ever experienced, contributed strongly to their ultimate defeat. Heinz Guderian, the German Panzer Commander, made a ( Read more... )

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

http://www.capitalradiogroup.com/content/cgi-bin/planetrock_albumquiz/

(Took a while to remember that "Lynyrd Skynyrd" has four "y"s... cheeky rednecks.)

Being able to play Playstation 1 games on your Playstation Portable is pretty cool ( Read more... )

Came across this while looking for info on the latest Warhammer 40,000 computer game:

DEFCON: Everybody Dies"It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins ( Read more... )

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I read somewhere that the Chinese have no cultural reference point for the concept of intellectual property. But I suspect a lot of non-Chinese have no grasp of it either. I guess it's the thought of rampant piracy, but the recent leak of the forthcoming Joanna Newsom album, courtesy of Pitchfork Media's exemplary network security policy, made me ( Read more... )

Goodbye, Pluto, we hardly knew ye.

[insert joke about Uranus here]