James Presbitero Jr. Have you ever read an article that made you say “This was made by AI”?
Author: Jason
Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list
With the ReiserFS recently considered obsolete and slated for removal from the Linux kernel entirely, Fredrick R.
How social media algorithms ‘flatten’ our culture by making decisions for us
If you opened Facebook, Twitter or Instagram about a decade ago, you’d likely see posts from friends and family, in chronological order. Nowadays, users are hit with a barrage of content curated by an algorithm. Passionate about plants? Sports? Cats? Politics? That’s what you’re going to see.
DARK FORT LANE (a solo rpg)
THE SUBURBAN DAD enters the stage.
Thus begins the slightly adapted version of DARK FORT, the solo/micro game that became MÖRK BORG. Grab a handful of dice, a pencil and paper and begin your perilous delve into DARK FORT LANE, a Grimdad Saga in the Pre-Apocalyptic Suburbs.
Can you complete all of the errands before you run out of patience? Or will your NEIGHBORS derail your efforts to return to your MAN CAVE to await the 7th Misery?
Toby Andy, Legend
No regrets.
I have such a love/hate relationship with this card.
Love because it was the first gold card I owned and was for a while the only among my playgroup.
Hate because I traded a couple duals and other stuff I wasn’t playing with for it, having no idea what I was giving away for a trash card.
I was playing a white-blue counter weenie surprise deck that consistently cranked out turn 2 Serras thanks to a couple Mana Vault. The gold framed Tobias looked like a good fit to 1994 Jason.
I rotated those bareback Vaults and Tundras and slapped that bad boy Toby onto the concrete like I was about to end the game, and the ooohs and aahhhhs because a mythical Legends card hit the field was music to my ears.
“It’s like a fifth Serra Angel!” some would say.
And they’d be wrong. Oh so wrong. With “WAIT FOR ME!” as a rallying cry, Toby would sit on the battlefield like a lukewarm turd, maybe good for blocking, but otherwise just for show, a waste of a turn and a Vault now ticking away at my precious life.
I’d win. Usually. I’d picked up the art of “playing more than just one of any given card” and “trying to stick to a couple colors instead of three or four” and someone said something about a curve? Yeah, I’d read a Scrye or two.
But Tobias. Useless, golden Tobias.
So yeah, picking up a graded one is kinda a holy grail for me. And it’s only fitting that my first Legends and gold frame card is also my first graded card.
How the meandering legal definition of ‘fair use’ cost us Napster but gave us Spotify
From DMCA takedowns to Content ID filters, record labels continue to crack down on online music sharing.
The hidden culprit driving America’s apocalypse of boarded-up storefronts
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A storefront for robots
Jennifer Dziura has two blogs: one for humans and one for robots. Originally on her personal site Get Bullish, Dziura shared career advice, discussed being a female business owner, and answered questions about dealing with difficult co-workers and racist family members.
Dr. Richard Moriarty, Creator of ‘Mr. Yuk,’ Has Died
Dr. Richard Moriarty, founder of the Pittsburgh Poison Center and creator of the familiar Mr. Yuk icon, died yesterday at the age of 83. His death comes a little more than a month after I wrote about a beer league hockey team in Pittsburgh called — with Moriarty’s blessing — the Mighty Yuks.