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Hmmm… here’s some interesting Terminator 3 rumors: Apparently, director James Cameron may come back to do the flick after the completion of Hannibal. It also appears that the cast from the first two movies may be involved, including Arnie, Linda, and Edward.

More: “Based on previously reported info, the third film’s story will be set in the present day and will focus on the first battle between humanity and Skynet, which paves the way for the major war to come.

And if tarantulas aren’t an appropriate gift for your boss or loved one, why not get them their own personalized corpse? It’s non-stop fun for the whole family!

As long as we’re posting wacky dreams, check out this one. Not quite as surreal as Kevi’s, but pretty terrifying for me. I get lost often enough, but it’s always very disquieting when I do.

That link represents the first dynamically generated content on my site. Not much to look at, but it’s pulled out of a database, as the whole thing eventually will be.

While browsing the profiles at Flame Warriors, I couldn’t help but conjure names of friends and other net.people I’ve met, particularly on usenet…

Dan Harper, are you reading this?

Julia’s Journal is another cleanly-designed weblog that I’ve stumbled across. It’s very easy to read, and, since green is my favorite color, I enjoy wandering through it. Plus, Julia has Neal Stephenson on her reading list. Swoon!

I’m sorry, I have a one track mind when it comes to Working Designs and their Anton Arcane-like perversions of perfectly wonderful video games.
I’ve played about 45 minutes of a game called “Vanguard Bandits,” today. It is a competent, if dated, Strategy game, involving
giant robots in a fantasy type setting. Lame when compared to say, Front Mission 3, but it could have been so much more.

I will admit, I chuckled when I killed an Enemy “ATAC” and they shouted, “Calgon, take me away!” or when my character shouted an attack;“Judo CHOP!” and “Take off, you hoser, Eh.”

Rant

Are we reaching a new level of consequence?
With the rise of trackable communication, I’ve seen more and more abuses of courtesy, starting with CallerID and extending to the Net at large. When CallerID was first introduced, woe be to those who misdialed a number, for they could be sure to receive an angry return call from whichever repressed moron disturbed from watching Geraldo by an accidental phone call. It appears with the spread of Instant-Message clients to the masses, the insipid and stupid have gained this technology as well, and are abusing it just as they have abused telephone products.

For everyone who has ever wondered what the real meaning is behind the anime-that-kicks-you-in-the-head-yes-even-more-than-Akira, Neon Genesis Evangelion, check out Toastyfrog’s Summary of Eva Episode 26, which is basically a overly artsy-fartsy Hideaki Anno getting symbolic on our asses.
Read it, and think, “You know, that literal interpretation of the symbolism was right all along. I was a fool to compare Eva to something as overly complex and intellectually grasping as the Qabalah…”
And if it piques your interest, don’t bother reading 40 different webpages that all copied the info from each other; click here for a nice concise list of pretty much every theory currently held in the internet community, regarding EVA symbolism.

Thanks to Riothero, I discovered that fucknbc.com does in fact exist, and it points to CBS.com. Furthermore, fuckcbs.com exists, too, and, you guessed it, it points to NBC.com . “What the?” I did a whois, and found this:

whois -h whois.corenic.net fucknbc.com …
 – 2600 Enterprises (template COCO-12817)
 emmanuel@2600.com
 PO Box 99
  Middle Island, NY 11953 US

 Domain Name: fucknbc.com
 Status: production

 Admin Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
 Emmanuel Goldstein (COCO-12818) emmanuel@2600.com
 +1 516 751 2600 (FAX) +1 516 474 2677

High Flying Adored is another Alabama Blog, run by Heather Lokey. I like Heather’s color choices, and the picture at the top is neat. I also think “Lokey” is a neat surname. I’d be forced to change it to Loki though, just because I’m a damn freak.

Loki! Loki Loki Loki!!