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Old Game Tuesday – Stars!

As I roll through these old games, you are going to notice that 4X games are well-represented. One of my personal favorites is Stars!, released wa-a-ay back in 1995. Jeff Johnson and Jeff McBride created the game for their own enjoyment, and decided to release it as Shareware. People still did that [...]

Gadgets

Robot Snow Shovel For Places That Don’t Need It

With the incredibly inventive name I-Shovel, to boot. I’ve been expecting something like this, to be honest, but I can’t imagine it will be tough enough to work during a real snowstorm. Spotted at Gizmodo.

NHL

Injuries VS Wins

Behind the Net has a great article about something many of us wonder about: How many wins do you lose when that top line player gets injured? Here’s the basics of the methodology:
For the last five seasons, I looked at forwards who averaged 19 minutes or more per game and defensemen who averaged [...]

NFL

Are the Bills Doing Well?

I freely admit I’m not a College Football guy, haven’t been for years. I have to say, it really seems like the Bills are making some solid picks in the draft this year, addressing needs that they have, and not letting what other teams are doing dictate what they need to do. What [...]

Sci/Tech

Just in Time for the Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere

Gizmodo brings me this little bit of terror…apparently someone wants to make HUGE Forest Fire fighting robots. With MASSIVE SAW BLADES at the ends of the arms. But of COURSE it will NEVER be used for any sort of military purpose, right? And it will stay perfectly within our control, at all [...]

NFL

Kissing Suzy Kolber Outdoes The Onion

After Rejecting Other Deals, Bengals Trade Chad Johnson to Tyler Perry
CINCINNATI €” A day after declining the Washington Redskins€™ offer of potentially two first-round picks for wide receiver Chad Johnson, the Cincinnati Bengals shipped the restive wideout to omnipresent comedian Tyler Perry.
€śChad will fit in well with our stereotype-laden productions filled with embarrassingly silly, shiftless [...]

Media

Blog Oh! Blog

I’ve received some positive comments on the design of my blog (the latest one, that is), and I just wanted to give you folks an idea of where it all comes from. The theme is called Limit, and was designed by Jai Nischal Verma of Blog Oh! Blog. I’m always drawn to the [...]

Software

Ubuntu Cheat Sheet

FOSSwire has created a new Ubuntu cheat sheet for non-Linux folks who want to try it out.

PC Games

Old Game Tuesday – M.U.L.E.

M.U.L.E. holds the distinction of being the game I’ve probably played the longest. I was first exposed to it on my old Commodore 64, and though there are many classics from that era (which may be covered here in the future), this is the one that has kept my interest continually since then.
M.U.L.E. is a [...]

NHL

Three Games in Four Nights

My unofficial count showed 14 instances of 3 in 4 for the Sabres (may have missed one), for a total of 42 games. They got 53 out of a possible 84 points in those games (63% of possible points).

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