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Front Line Force is a brand-new mod for Half-Life, and in only a few months has become the fourth-most popular Half-Life mod with approximately 150 servers (behind the undisputed king Counter-Strike, TFC, and Deathmatch).
posted by stazen at 11:27 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Lance gets into the act, feigning humor, just grazing bitterness on the way to the kitchen. Wouldn't we all like to be bloggered?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:38 PM PST - 9 comments

Science textbooks are riddled with errors. It sounds like they've gotten as bad as history textbooks have been for about thirty years. How the heck does any kid learn anything in school anymore? (Answer: a lot of them don't. And no wonder.)
posted by Steven Den Beste at 10:00 PM PST - 29 comments

Duking it out with Bill Maher not your cup of tea? Prefer something a little more Rokeresque? All right - what about brunch with Katie Couric?
posted by hijinx at 9:38 PM PST - 4 comments

Andrew Sullivan on the blessed relief of presidential silence:
"The promise of Bush is to make politics boring again, to return it to the prose of government rather than the drama of private life or the poetry of the broader culture."
posted by hanseugene at 7:44 PM PST - 13 comments

Live audio description of Bush inauguration If you get PBS and if your PBS station broadcasts in stereo, you will likely be able to hear only the second-ever attempt at audio description of a live event - the inauguration of Bush. (The other live-described event was Clinton's inauguration.) This of course is audio description, ostensibly for blind viewers. Set your TV or VCR to SAP and compare the approaches of the standard announcers, who call the event assuming the viewer can see, and the describers, who don't. (No sexy Web page for this event.)
posted by joeclark at 5:52 PM PST - 9 comments

Buy your way onto network television. For over $15k you can argue against Bill Maher himself (eBay).
posted by grank at 4:58 PM PST - 2 comments

Rave = crack house? More drug war idiocy.
posted by ritualdevice at 4:41 PM PST - 38 comments

i don't know about the rest of you, but this is the beginning what i fear about the new bush administration...
posted by o2b at 10:00 AM PST - 56 comments

Remember last year's story about the plane hijacker in the Philippines who jumped with a home-made parachute and died? Here's the story from the point of view of the crew and the flight attendant who pushed him off of the plane.
posted by lia at 9:42 AM PST - 5 comments

Help wanted, celibate. The Diocese of Rochester NY is using the web to recruit young men for the priesthood. According to MSNBC the supply of priests is dangerously low.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:43 AM PST - 9 comments

Being judgemental about (presumably) religious practices again...
posted by rushmc at 8:30 AM PST - 5 comments

Soon several thousand movie theaters will close nationwide. Short of tearing it down and building something else, what would you do with a multi-screen theater if you could pick up one for a few cents on the dollar at a bankrupcy auction? Can anyone think of any use for these monsters?
posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:13 AM PST - 26 comments

Country house anarchy. Seminal anarcho-punks CRASS go the Blogger route, and reluctantly call in some good will. More details
posted by ceiriog at 4:37 AM PST - 8 comments

The wireless e-mail device market splits along racial lines. Black users prefer Motorola, while whites favor BlackBerry.
posted by jjg at 2:37 AM PST - 11 comments