Jason Griffey

This is the coolest trailer I’ve ever seen.

I have no idea what this is about, I don’t understand any of it. BUT, if anyone out there wants to translate, I’d love to know.

CASSHERN

In a defeat for Fair Use rights, 321 Studios was issued an injunction from a federal judge instructing them to stop producing or selling their software product DVD X-Copy. The software allows you to backup your DVD’s to recordable DVDs, a right that seems perfectly reasonable (especially given that it IS legal to backup CDs).

Hopefully a higher court will hear this, and come to their senses.

For those of you I infected with my love of the Counting Crows, here’s a statement, and a song from Adam Duritz, from their performance at the Warfield Theater in San Fransisco, 12/12/03. Crows fans have been waiting a long, long time for this one…

“All right, I have never ever played this song before in concert. I have grave grave misgivings about doing it now. But you people have been bitching about it forever so… It’s entirely possible its not even that good of a song, it does however have a really great title..it sort of goes like this.”

Link to lyrics.

“Mongoose Publishing of Swindon, Wilts., UK (www.mongoosepublishing.com) announced today agreement with the creators of the fondly remembered tabletop roleplaying game Paranoia, to develop and publish a new edition of the game, Paranoia XP. ”

Troubleshooter: PDC!
PDC: Yes, Citizen user?
Troubleshooter: Please add citizen Rachel-R-BLT-2 to my address book.
PDC: Accessing. I’m sorry, citizen user. There is no such citizen.
Troubleshooter: But I left her in cubicle ZXY-12 in BLT sector just ten minutes ago!
PDC: Accessing. Cubicle ZXY-12 is currently undergoing cleaning and renovation by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and Mind Control prior to new occupancy.
Troubleshooter: But…. Please access cloning records for Rachel-R-BLT.
PDC: Accessing. There is no citizen Rachel-R-BLT. There has never been a citizen Rachel-R-BLT.
Troubleshooter: But…
PDC: You are mistaken.
Troubleshooter: But…
PDC: You seem distraught and possibly delusional, citizen. Please be calm, and remain in the area. Assistance is on the way.

Ah, the memories. Me…My Clone…The Commies…The Computer. Such fun. For those of you not familiar with the game, it was one of the best RPG’s ever. Wacky, crazy, and completely insane, but fun as hell. If anyone is interested, I’ve got the original book, along with Send in the Clones and a handful of supplements. I’d love to run a one-night game of this.

Check the Paranoia Blog.

Anyone wanna own some of Cory Doctorow’s stuff? Well, you’re in luck. He’s selling off a ton of things before jetting to the UK. Pickup in San Fran only, though (too bad, really…that’s a nice skull.

Oh my. Originally seen on Jason Kottke’s blog. This is both brilliant and disturbing…the artist Kelly Heaton skinned 64 Tickle Me Elmos and made a vibrating fur coat from them.

Even more interesting…she’s a local girl. She has ties to the MIT Media Lab but is the current Artist in Residence in the Computer Science Department at Duke.

Does anyone have any idea if she’s done any local exhibitions? I’d love to see some of her stuff.

Someone has now written a plugin for the game The Sims called SliceCity which lets the your Sims play something akin to SimCity.

So you’ve now got real people in the real world, directing simulated people in the simulated world, creating simulated worlds with simulated people.

*boggle*