Tom Tromey had a Silly desktop idea for the GNOME desktop project — create a small interpreter that can load freedesktop.org desktop entry specification files, and then make those filese executable, so one can just execute the .desktop file to load the appropriate app. I read this and thought, “Huh, that is a good idea,” [...]

Earlier today, Voodoo Extreme got word from several sources with the Nintendo Wii launch information. Sony and Microsoft can fight their little overpriced battle with hardware whose core interfaces and concepts haven’t changed in 20 years. I’m going with Nintendo. Read all the juicy bits here. Now I need to save up $300-400 by November [...]

I decided I’d grown weary of the old style for the site and came across a theme I rather liked. It’s called “Off-Center” for obvious reasons, but I’m not 100% sure I’m going to leave it that way; I might expand it out to fill the whole page. It was designed by the awesome WordPress [...]

One of the frequent complaints I hear about 3rd Edition (and 3.5) D&D is that you have to play it with miniatures. “It was designed to sell them,” a friend of mine bemoans, pointing to Attacks of Opportunity as the most damning evidence. I’ll admit that I did consider AoO to be so difficult without [...]