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Congrats to me. After a year and three months, I’ve made a new logo. Yay!

Research Into Proportions of Picture Components’ Sizes, by Jurate Macnoriute.

For the uninitiated, here’s a definition of the term “LAN Party”: “an event where people interested in multi player computer network games bring their computers to a location, hook them together via networking equipment, and play games for hours at a time.”

The event at Michael’s on Saturday night was nowhere near as large as those pictured on linked site, but there was about twelve guests, much Xbox playing, much pool, and the consuming of large quantities of beer and chips.

I had heard about Blizzard Entertainment’s lawsuit against the open source bnetd project. But only after being introducted to WarCraft III at Michael’s LAN Party did I fully understand this haiku I found on slashdot.org:

Blizzard angers me,

But Warcraft is like cocaine.

Love and hate at once.

W00t! Spending the weekend in Huntsville, and going to a massive LAN party at Michael’s place. Yay!

You’ll find a treasure trove of video game music over at GamingForce. Faves include rave remixes of Castlevania and Disney songs, and lots of full soundtracks.

If Susi finds out that they have full albums of every Dance Dance Revolution soundtracks, Kayvan’s in trouble.

One technology I’ve been keeping an eye out for is that of the “localizer”, as described in the novel A Deepness In The Sky, by Vernor Vinge. In “Deepness”, localizers are miniscule devices capable of distributed data processing, inter- and extra-device communication, movement, and environmental sensing. These devices play a key role in the development of societies towards a space-faring culture. Two articles on current research regarding this tech: Berkeley’s Wireless Research Center’s picoradio project, and their smart dust project.

In time for the holidays, it’s ASCII Cow Art!

In case you get abducted by crazed Inuit beach raiders who drug you, steal your molars, and leave you for dead on the beaches of a foreign country, you can use the power of the Internet to translate the word “cow” into over 539 different languages!

Find songs featuring your favorite musical instrument: the cowbell.