December 31st, 2004
More end-of-year superlatives: Penny-Arcade picks
the World of Warcraft online game as #1 of 2004.
“World of Warcraft is so rich that there are almost an unlimited number of things to fight with your wife about.” (See also: today’s
comic, and the rest of the year-end game rankings:
1 2 3.)
December 31st, 2004
Shelley of Scary Go Round narrates John Allison’s top 20 albums of the year:
1 2 3 4.
December 29th, 2004
“Actor Jerry Orbach, star of Law and Order,
has died of prostate cancer, a representative of the show said.” [
Update 1/2/05: E! Online has a pretty comprehensive report on the
memorial.]
December 29th, 2004
Continuing a
tradition, jwz offers a
2004 music wrap-up. “Dear 2005, please try harder. Thank you.” (Warning: still metal-heavy.)
December 29th, 2004
“Well, I’m back after an inexcusably long absence from blogging here on JIMWICh.” With that, Jim Leftwich has started up
his blog again, after a substantial hiatus (including a brief stint at my former
employer).
December 27th, 2004
“If you’re like me, virtually all of your time is now spent between two inboxes: your email and your RSS feed…” I usually just snag this sort of entry in my widening
del.icio.us net, but I particularly like
Blog design in the age of RSS, from the blog for the forthcoming book,
The Long Tail.
December 27th, 2004
The authors and editors of
Wikipedia are doing a fantastic job of keeping on top of the
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. All the latest statistics, stories, and links, in Wikipedia’s characteristically easy-to-digest format.