Whedon’s X-Men title
February 18th, 2004
Due in May: Astonishing X-Men, a new 12-episode series by Joss
Whedon and John Cassaday.
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Archive for February 18th, 2004
Dean is done
February 18th, 2004
More ViBES nostalgia
February 18th, 2004
More ViBES nostalgia: a much younger dpeck predicts The
Sims Online.
More on Yahoo Search
February 18th, 2004
Using a different search engine—especially if you haven’t used anything
but Google since you dropped AltaVista in 1999—is roughly
like picking up the entire Web in an enormous shoebox, and then shaking it all
around vigorously. Lots of unusual things come up, including a bunch of
nostalgia: a blogger writes about
his ViBES experience [fixed link; see also this followup] (ViBES was a MUSH I built in 1994 as a high
school hangout); some truly old perl code
of mine; Chris Mulligan’s archaeology of MBHS sysop
lore, 1993-2002 (including the thought-lost binx
credits and goober credits
& /etc/issue archive).
Yahoo! Search
February 18th, 2004
Fig. 1. Our
nonholonomic path planner’s replay app. (Hey, it’s my old fvwm2
color scheme!)
As I’m sure you’ve all heard, Yahoo! ditched Google and flipped the
switch on the new Yahoo! search.
It seems to have substantially different result characteristics; it
uncovered an old motion-planning
computer science project that I and Amar worked on at Rice.
Manhood Arcade
February 18th, 2004
Tycho waxes philosophic about being a grown-up gamer. “I don’t want to
disappoint the young people in the audience, but there is not some kind
of flaming arch you pass through and then you’re an adult and you have
to be serious about shit. It’s easy to see from commercials the sorts of
activities I should presumably be engaged in, but I’m fairly certain
that American manhood is vague, internally contradictory and largely
nonsensical.”