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Here’s the graphic that would go on the hypothetical CafePress T-shirt, if such a thing were to happen:

Gratis J Chabot, as usual.

PUPPET EMERGENCY

Gizmonics.com is up for sale. Where is Joel Hodgson?! Is he all right?!!

OK, ok, I’ll stop panicking; he’s writing for Jimmy Kimmel Live (ecccch).

DDRcana and Other Geekery

I guess I never posted anything about PyCon back in March. I wonder how that happened. The setup we managed to wangle for DDR, though somewhat neck-injury-inducing, was even more awesome than the projection screen we managed at H2K2. We had a whole conference hall, PA system, and a massive screen. I had a great time kicking everyone’s asses playing Tekken with dance mats instead of hand controllers. And I met some really bright and entertaining people, including the folks over at Roxor Games, with whom, as a result, I am now working on another dance video game. Oh, and we played a killer game of 1kBWCs on the last night — I don’t know if anyone has posted the deck online yet. Glyph has more pictures up, including a demonstration of the reason why Caltech’s faculty club stopped using fabric tablecloths.

They don't like educators, either

Went looking for information on harmful side-effects of sleep medications (more on that soon?) today and found myself on a page from the Citizen’s Committee on Human Rights. Alarmingly, I didn’t notice much was wrong until a link titled “How To Start” pointed at a Scientology page. While poking around, I found a page on how psychiatry is destroying the American educational system. Love the use of graphics.

Worse than beef?

OK, I stand corrected: There are worse things than beef out to get your children. The beef girlsite linked to a chatroom on a “KidsCom, a fun site for kids” which apparently is little more than a tool for squeezing information about kids’ predilections out of them.