An interesting article ( Read more... )

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19249637

Hmmmmm...Driving kind of fast?!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_on_fe_st/odd141_mph

Engineering Students at the University of California at Santa Cruz decided to make a recreation of "Donkey Kong" (1981) out of Post-It Notes...Check it out!

http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~inio/dk/?fb

'Guild Wars': An experiment that worked...

With more than 3 million units sold, legions of passionate fans and heaps of critical acclaim, "Guild Wars" is probably the most popular massively multiplayer online game you've never heard of.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17820122/

The game came and I played it a bit ( Read more... )

I managed to come across a very rare auction on eBay last week for an extremely early development copy of "Final Fantasy VII" from 1995-96. This disc contains the much talked about Siggraph works as well as an actual playable game with whatever they were working on at that time. Apparently this is the earliest playable demo for FF7 and is ( Read more... )

Well, it's that time of year again, except this year I'm not going back down to the Coast as I've done for many years in the past.  Now that classes are out until August (classes don't resume until August 20, which is much later this year), I actually decided to take some summer courses in order to knock off some requirements for my Master's degree ( Read more... )

I got this in an e-mail today and it was pretty interesting, though long, and I thought I'd go ahead and post it...Enjoy!

The clouded crystal ball

The formerly iconic New Yorker once had a feature called "The Clouded
Crystal Ball" in which they recorded comments and prophesies which
turned out to be ( Read more... )

I know during my last update I mentioned the fact that the video card in my Inspiron 8500 laptop had blown out again and that we talked to Dell about replacing the system since we've had about six problems since purchasing the system in the summer of 2003.  Well, it's taken a while (nearly three weeks), but yesterday (Thursday, May 10) my new ( Read more... )