For most people, most days go according to plan - you get up, go to work, do some mindless crap, come home, eat dinner, drink, wack-off to Internet porn and go to bed. But sometimes, this happens....

• Sickest 3-Point Buzzer Beater You'll Ever See • Girls Wrestling In The Mud • Olivia Wilde Looking All Kinds Of Hot • 10 Sexiest American Idol Contestants...So Far • Dita Von Teese Looks Like Manson...Gross • Kick A*s Shoelace Magic Trick...

After the whole Threshold deal with Wikipedia and losing mud history, a new Wiki was created on Wikia in order to preserve mud history. I’ve put up a detailed LegendMUD entry with a bunch of citations. Yeah, it’s a conflict of interest, and I am sure I am misremembering stuff or letting ...

I wish someone who has a good memory of these things and was there, would document that the key game design features of a DIKU are, if everyone is going to refer to MMOs as DIKU derivatives. – a comment from Daniel Speed on Broken Toys » Wikicrap. Glossing much here… DikuMUD was derived...

SusanC has a comment on a Terra Nova thread in which she observes, So the main criterion for being considered is that there is some kind of creative expression involved. I’m OK with that, although it opens the door for arguments about exactly how much creative input is needed to qualify. Text ...

Christian Walz The Corner Sony BMG Småsvängigt, men kallt från Christian Walz. Barry Manilow The Greatest Songs of the Eighties (album) Sony BMG Smör-Barry sjunger hits från åtti och lyckas nästan få det att låta som det dessutom är producerat på 80-talet. Ostigt är ett ord som kommer up...

Image via Wikipedia Tomorrow night sees the BBC broadcast the first episode of its re-imagining of the late, great Terry Nation’s 70s cult sci-fi classic Survivors , which tells the story of a post-apocalyptic world where the majority of humans have succumbed to plague, and died. If any of our...

I’ve recently spent three days living as part of a ‘tribe’ and building a tented eco-conference centre, have you ever heard of a tented eco-conference centre? I hadn’t either. I went with some colleagues to help out, we were all apprehensive about it, with the potential of loads of mumbo-jum...

There has been a lot of criticism towards the game industry, accusing them of being unoriginal. Sequels, sequels, everywhere. Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, GTA 4, Halo 3, The Sims 3, Far Cry 2, Fallout 3, not to mention the annual versions of various sports games. Why can’t game companies be more ori...

As part of the ongoing raking over the coals of Richard Bartle for saying the obvious (yes, you can tell what side I am on in those debates!), Steve Danuser says over at Moorgard.com » Sacred Cows I get tired of people implying that today’s MMOs owe their entire existence to the MUDs of yesteryea...