For those who care, Metallica's new album is streamable from their site in its entirety. People like Metallica for very different reasons so I won't comment on whether it's "good"-you'll have to decide for yourself.

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Anybody want to buy a computer?

• Athlon XP 3000+, ~2.17 GHz
• 512 MB RAM
• 150 GB RAID 0 disk space
• 16x DVD burner
• 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disk drives

Slashdot posted a story about the best sport ever today. I am only half kidding-I would love to try it!

"To kill a man in a paroxysm of passion is understandable, but to have him killed by someone else after calm and serious meditation and on the pretext of duty honourably discharged is incomprehensible."
-The Marquis deSade

For those of you saying D&D 4E is too much like WoW, James Wyatt has written a rebuttal to justify a lot of the choices they made when designing the system:http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1044100Wyatt's comments after the post are also worth reading, particularly his comments on character roles-he implies that four clerics is the "best ( Read more... )

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On my system the video gets out of sync really quickly, but it's still pretty awesome. Makes me want to learn to play all those riffs.

Hocus Pocus!

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1) Make sure you have Flash Player 9.
2) Click this link.
3) Look, it's Van Vleck.
4) Drag the image with the mouse to pan around and check out Van Hise.
5) Click the arrows to drive yourself around the roads.

"Anyone attempting to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."
-John Von Neumann

Eclipse drives me fucking batty. I could write a big rant about it, but this guy explains it pretty much perfectly (just global replace Emacs with Vim for me).

Apparently IntelliJ is pretty good though; maybe I should try it some time. But it is tailored toward Java (not that Eclipse isn't), so it's not exactly generic like Vim.

"Make everything ( Read more... )

You guys like video games, right? I know you do.

I have been pondering how to get more of us together more often to play console games, both old and new. (Why console games specifically? Well, manbegetsgod already hosts a semi-regular LAN party for PC games, so I'm not sure PC games require further representation. Also, keep reading...)

( My dubious idea )

I saw a statistic today that Madonna is the most successful (as far as record sales go) female recording artist of all time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records (though some say it's Celine Dion). This led me to wonder: what about the most successful male recording artist ( Read more... )