Your Web 2.0 supermarket!

It's a cute video, perhaps NSFW. It auto-starts, so beware.

http://www.glumbert.com/media/supermarket

Dungeon Design 101: There's always goodies hidden behind the waterfall

The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés
http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html

This list applies to so much more than console RPGs that I couldn't begin to count! There's tonnes of these in WoW, I've always had fairly consistent returns with waterfalls but usually it's higher level monsters that you have to fight your way through.

Are PCs cheaper than Macs?

Not necessarily, it depends on the features that you're looking for in a high-end machine. You can always find a Win PC that is less expensive than a Mac, but if you look at a Mac and price a PC with comparable features, you might be surprised.

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/08/1531234

Death to the (Mac) Dashboard!

Sucker apparently takes up 80 meg of ram! I suppose that amount may depend on the number of widgets installed, but I don't like it and don't want it. Thus, it is dead!

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/08/disabledashboard/index.php?lsrc=mwrss

News of the Weird

So many U.S. executives want to visit India to make deals to outsource their companies' jobs that in March, India's Washington, D.C., embassy said it was forced to outsource the job of processing the executives' visa applications. [United Press International, 3-3-07]

*sigh*

Yet another U.S. job was outsourced to India in May, that of "local government reporter" covering city hall politicians in Pasadena, Calif. The publisher of the Web site PasadenaNow.com said the local beat could be handled very well from India, through telephone interviews and by watching live city council telecasts on the Internet. [Canoe.ca-AP, 5-10-07]

In March, the Los Angeles City Council agreed to pay wrongly accused Juan Catalan $320,000 to settle his lawsuit over having been held in jail for five months for a 2003 murder he could not have committed. Catalan maintained all along that he had been at a Dodgers baseball game at the time of the crime, with his 6-year-old daughter, but police distrusted the alibi. However, Catalan's lawyer subsequently learned that the HBO TV show "Curb Your Enthusiasm" had been filming at Dodger Stadium that day for an episode and, poring over time-stamped outtakes of crowd shots, finally found a scene with Catalan and his daughter in the stands. [Los Angeles Times, 3-8-07]

Star Trek obsessive Tony Alleyne, who News of the Weird reported in 2006 was having a hard time selling his small apartment in Leicestershire, England, that he had fastidiously outfitted to the specifications of the starship Enterprise, and then redesigned as the flight deck of the Voyager, reported in May that he had a buyer, for the equivalent of about $840,000, roughly five times the value of a comparable flat in that neighborhood. [The Sun (London), 5-11-07]

Cool! Jules Verne Film Festival for LA in December!

It's been an annual event in Paris for the last fifteen years, now we're going to have an American one. Buzz Aldrin spearheaded the event.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070608/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentusfrance_070608201523

Yet another retired general speaks out against the war in Iraq

Retired General and former President George Washington recently sat down in an interview to discuss the war in Iraq.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/retired_gen_george_washington