Monthly Archives: July 2004

I, for one, would like to commend Real for adopting the “tactics and ethics of a hacker.”

Steve Jackson Games has a nice collection of Illuminati and other fun themed desktop wallpapers.

There’s a trailer for the Hitchhiker’s movie but it’s been slashdotted. Instead, you can listen to the preview of the new radio series. Update: There’s a torrent of the trailer.

The new Zatoichi movie opened this weekend. It gets to Boston on August 6th. Hmm, and they misspelled Zatoichi in the web site title.

Steve Jackson Games is reprinting the Principia Discordia.

The album of the week is the Fiery Furnaces’ Blueberry Boat.

Über Goober, it looks like Trekkies for gamers. I might have to buy this if it doesn’t show up on Netflix.

Sun’s Jonathon Schwartz has a silly post about why people should buy Solaris. He claims that Red Hat co-opted the open-source “societal movement” on which Sun was founded (“They’re not the real open-source company, we are! sniffle“). He claims they’ll … Continue reading →

Oops, forgot about the album of the week last week. As predicted, it was the Polyphonic Spree’s Together We’re Heavy. This week’s album coming soon.

John Dvorak has started a WordPress-powerered blog.

After some troubles getting access to Blogger, Joe is posting updates on his trip to China.

Here’s a cool photo gallery of pictures from Robert Pirsig’s 1968 roadtrip on which he based Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. [via Futurismic]

They Might Be Giants’ new album, The Spine, has arrived at their download store.