The Matrix Runs on Windows

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Take the red pill. Get the blue screen. That possibly explains my laptops erratic behaviour; recreational drug use.

I suspect that if the real Martix wasn't made on Macs this would be eerily similar to the first draft of the script.

The SFX and production are excellent on this, considering it is only a comedy short, as well as the script and performances so make sure you check out the other Geek humour shorts like Web Side Story.

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FPS Disease

Please watch this video message about a very serious disease with could affect any of us with little warning;

Via BoingBoing

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Goodbye little scary robot show.

With Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles officially canceled and any hope of a Jericho-style fan resurrection unlikely, it seemed that no joy could now come from the burial of this great show. Until, that was, I read the blackly humorous rant of show creator and producer Josh Friedman:

Everyone says having your show cancelled is like a death but I've been dead before and at least when you're dead you don't get thrown off the Warner Bros. lot for haunting your old parking space ... Losing your show is more like a surprise divorce where you get served papers in the morning and your (ex)wife is fucking Human Target by three in the afternoon using the same time slot your child was conceived in and also where she did that one thing that one time on your birthday.

A bitter rant from the man responsible for the show's cancellation or the honest outpouring of a man who's dream has prematurely ended?

There were definite signs of something when Josh answered a network question in this interview two months earlier, so maybe he is burning his bridges. Which is a shame as it might hinder his next project.

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A social occasion.

Having been to several LARP events, we play traditional fantasy with Curious Pastimes rather than the Civil War re-enactments here, and spent more time in the inn than in character I feel a real camaraderie with Gavin's mates.

Now if you excuse me, I feel the need for mead...

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President of the Board

Brett Ortler's A Litany of Interesting Things blog contains his letters to the new President of the USA. This one is a strangely agreeable but amusing one about learning about world politics and economics from those family board games that we have all played:

Dear President Obama,

I know we’re in the throes of an economic downturn, so I’ve been trying to think up some ways I could help contribute to the economy and the economic recovery. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I learned a good deal of information from board games—and this information spanned a wide variety of subjects—how to manage a war on several fronts (Risk), the basics of a cutthroat capitalist economy (Monopoly) and that a wide variety of implements can be used in a homicide, and such homicides can occur in any room of the house (Clue). I’ll give you a few examples of what I mean.

I would consider forwarding these pearls to our own Parliamentary leaders, but I fear the only game they ever played was Go for Broke.

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XKCD - The Voynich Manuscript

It's true, we gamers are the Atlanteans of the future!

Wikipedia:

"The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious, undeciphered illustrated book. It is thought to have been written in the 15th or 16th century. The author, script, and language of the manuscript remain unknown"

I'm off to go and bury some of my old D&D books in the garden now...