come play with me

Those of you who know me know my love of Douglas Adams. I don't write much about him either here or at my other blog because there's not much news about him...because he's...well...dead.

Amongst Mr. Adams' works, though, was a video game adaptation of his novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Never played it...didn't have a computer back then...but I have heard good things about it.

Anyway, I just found a very cool article about the struggle to make a sequel video game. It's required reading for anyone interested in Adams or the early days of the video game industry.

not safe for thinking

I tend not to share "not safe for work" stuff on this blog...I'd rather keep it for myself...but here's some passages from the entries in the Best Bad Sex Awards 2007. They're not safe, but that's more due to their general stupidity rather than any steaminess.

words...words...words

Virgil, the genius who brought the web WikiScanner (a site which tracks what organizations are editing Wikipedia), had taken Facebook "my favorite books" list, correlated them by university average SAT score, and come up with a brilliant chart called Booksthatmakeyoudumb.

The findings are fascinating. The smartest book? Seems to be a tie between Lolita and 100 Years of Solitude.