So some crazy shit happened when Spore was released for the mac. Read more if you’re interested in the how and why, but if not, just click here to get taken to the pirate bay page for half life II for the Mac. In the description, you’ll see links for ep 1, 2 Portal, and Counter Strike.

A plea to you Scrabbled nerds.

Political magic cards. That’s Magic: The Gathering, mind you, a nerdy card game a number of us played when we were 14 (or 27). Funny regardless of experience in nerdy card games.

Tonight on Mythbusters the Apollo Moon Landing Hoax.

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I am not alone in the world. You see, I’ve been in more than my share of arguments about going out to a bar or club and how I picky I am about where I want to go. I can’t go to places with shitty music. I just can’t. It drives me insane. I can’t enjoy myself. People say I’m just exaggerating or being difficult and I wish it were the case, but it’s quite simple: if there’s shitty music, I’m not having fun. I can’t ignore it. I can’t block it out. It’s there and it’s awful and it makes me want to fight people.

If you clicked the link, you’ll see that somewhere else in the world there’s someone with this same complex who wrote a little comic about it. So next time I refuse to go to the Irish Pub or Silk City or all other manner of poorly DJ’d watering hole, you’ll know I’m not being difficult. I’m saving you the trouble of dealing with me being forced to hear Counting fucking Crows.

On the converse, if we go someplace with good music, you get to be around someone who is almost unreasonably happy and excited all the time. So it goes both ways, really.

Back in middle school when I thought I was an uber hacker, I used to carry text files printed off of BBS’s in my backpack. Bell tone codes, the anarchist’s cookbook, and, my personal favorite, IBFT articles. Textfiles.com has apparently been gathering a bunch of the more famous textfiles and putting them up for archive. They certainly don’t age that well, but there’s a ton of crazy stuff worth reading, if not solely for nostagia’s sake. Y’know… if nostalgia to you is reading old internet text files.

The new season of Mythbusters started on Wednesday. The Fake Moon Landing episode should appear in 2 weeks…here’s a preview.

Holy crap! Water! On Mars!. I dunno, I guess it’s exciting. I’m having a hard time going as nuts as the rest of the nerd world is, though. Find microbes in water on mars, that’s another story… But just water?

Read more for an astounding picture of said water on mars.

I’m running the risk here of posting yet another thing that’s already been discussed.

Has anyone here ever been on Woot? It’s fantastic. They generally sell one thing per day at a ridiculous price. The items can be anything from night lights to gaming mouses (is that the proper terminology?) to 50 inch plasma screen TVs to Roombas to coffee makers and so on. Everything with 5 dollar shipping.

About once a month or so, they do a thing called a “woot-off” where they have a set amount of one item, they sell it off, and they bring on a new one. It’s been known to render entire days useless.

The big coveted item here is the “Bag of Crap” A.K.A. “Random Crap” Basically, their cost is a dollar, and they throw in random stuff. Usually including some dollar store stuff, but on occasion a plasma TV, some GPSs and other assorted goodies costing well over a dollar. General practice is that you buy three, so total cost would end up being 8 bucks with the shipping. A quick Google search of “bag of crap” should bring up message boards of people telling what they got in their packages. If you see it, act fast as they generally don’t last more than a few seconds.

Anyway..Happy Wooting. http://www.woot.com/

Does anyone know how to convert a Sony Vegas file into a Flash file?

I think there are free Flash converters online, so any advice as far as how to go about it, and which converter to use will help!

Thanks

The best week of the year is about to begin! This is a high-DVR alert!

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/sharkweek.html

From select Squaresoft tunes, to Zelda, to the amazing, must-hear version of “Still Alive” from Portal. And it’s free! Very worth checking out if you’re geeky enough to be into such a thing.

http://www.umgso.com/recordings.php

If you like Batman and/or psychology, read on…