This is a response that I wrote on a friend’s message board regarding the MGM v. Grokster case, which was decided in favor of MGM in a shocking 9-0 vote by the Supreme Court. Effectively, they hold Grokster (and by extension any other Peer-to-Peer software manufacturer) responsible for the illegal actions perpetrated by their […]
So some friends and I have decided to try out the game Diplomacy. I’d never heard of the game before (or if I had, it never registered as a permanent memory), so I’ve been going over a lot of the theory and stragegy associated with it.
Being a chess enthusiast, and striving to master Go, […]
I’m afraid of phones. It’s a very, very weird trait for someone as gadget happy as I am. I have a PDA, Cell phone, multiple computers, and I’m more tech savvy than about 98% of the population. Why is it I’m afraid of this relatively innocuous invention that’s over 100 years old?
Well, […]
After yakking on the Wizards Eberron forums I think I’ve semi-committed myself to a new (and somewhat daunting) project: mapping Sharn in 3D.
For those unfamiliar with the setting, Sharn is a city of massive towers, perched on a series of cliffs overlooking a major river. If you’ve seen Star Wars’ Coruscant, Fifth Element’s Earth, […]
The release of the EpIII has managed to regenerate some of the traffic to my aging Star Wars page. I’ve gotten no less than a dozen requests for information from people wanting to make their own lightsabers and glowy effects. (And for someone who gets maybe two messages a year from the site, […]