Still Waiting for a Google Wave Invitation

Thursday, 29 July 2010

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Ewing, Olajuwon linked again in Hall (AP)

Saturday, 06 September 2008 |

Hakeem Olajuwon was asked Friday about the friendly rivalry he and Patrick Ewing shared during their careers as two of the greatest centers in basketball history. "Who said it was friendly?" Olajuwon...
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Nats score 3 off K-Rod, rally past Mets (AP)

Sunday, 04 July 2010 |

Adam Dunn will settle for a critical hit during Washington's wild rally rather than a game-winning grand slam. Ivan Rodriguez capped a three-run comeback in the ninth inning with an RBI single and...
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Video: Watch cringe-inducing Cam Fowler first-round tumble

Sunday, 04 July 2010 |

When the NHL decided to feature the audio and visual reactions of Windsor defenseman Cam Fowler during the first round of the 2010 entry draft, it was no doubt to capture his elation at being taken...
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Zvonareva loses singles, doubles finals (AP)

Sunday, 04 July 2010 |

Vania King of the United States and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan never had set foot inside Centre Court, let alone played there, before the Wimbledon women's doubles final Saturday. So the entire...
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Still Waiting for a Google Wave Invitation

Sunday, 04 October 2009
I feel like one of the millions of starving children who unlike Charlie Bucket didn't get a golden ticket to Willy Wonka's factory and subsequently died in poverty and obscurity. For I have not gotten an invitation to Google Wave: I do kind of want one though, if only to get a sense of whether it's [...] Posted originally: 09/30/2009 Write comment (2 Comments)

Sorry, But This Swarm Game Is a Serious Problem

Sunday, 04 October 2009

Perversely, I am attempting to solve Geo-Defense Swarm in a "clean" way -- i.e. w/out resorting to drugs (other than the usual cocktail of caffeine and alcohol), genetic modification or consulting online strategy guides. Honor demands it. For some reason. But I am getting manhandled by this thing. Still haven't beaten level one on medium. I [...]

Posted originally: 09/30/2009

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Iain Banks: The Nerd World Interview

Sunday, 04 October 2009
(Alternate headline: Iain Banks: The Other Nerd World Interview.) If you've never read Iain Banks, go here and here and then come back. If you want to know what I think about Iain Banks, it's this: he's one of the greatest science fiction novelists working today. He's a very funny, very dark writer who favors space [...] Posted originally: 09/29/2009 Write comment (2 Comments)

GeoDefense: TNG

Sunday, 04 October 2009
I know Lev is a Wurdle man, and I respect that about him. I do. But it must be asked: Has there ever been a better game than GeoDefense Swarm? No, there has not. As someone observed somewhere, "it is the thinking man's tower defense game." Posted originally: 09/28/2009 Write comment (2 Comments)

The Riverworld Trailer Is Out

Sunday, 04 October 2009
This stirs up a lot of weird emotions. Riverworld falls into the surprisingly large group of SF novels that could accurately be tagged, "really really long, involved SF series that were confusingly sexually explicit for the age I was when I read them, i.e. 10-12." Other examples being the World of Tiers books (also by Philip [...] Posted originally: 09/28/2009 Write comment (2 Comments)