Read this. and then go to the awesome libraries in Fishtown or Holmesburg to read some more!

I read this most assuredly plagiarized McSweeney’s article and can only envision my future self 10-20 years from now, scolding my son for inappropriately equipping his Materia / Espers or AWPing from the other side of de_dust like a goddam sissy.

To put that in perspective, about two year ago that would have cost me $300 or so. Why so cheap? Microsoft screwed the RAM makers. Apparently they all expected everyone to upgrade their RAM with Vista and overproduced. Vista bombed. Now there’s a ton of cheap RAM out there.

Head to http://www.crucial.com and run their system scanner to see if you could use an upgrade. Short of installing a whole new processor, increasing your RAM is the quickest and easiest way to dramatically improve your system’s speed.

As I’ve made many of you painfully aware, I have a thing for 8-bit video games. Especially the music. So when I found out about 8-bit Jesus, a project by some dude who guys by the name Doc Octoroc, I flipped out. It’s a comp of classic Christmas carols and hymns done in the style of classic Nintendo tunes. That isn’t to say it’s just done with an 8-bit chip or that the themes are mixed. That would be lame! No, this is way cooler.

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becomes obsessed with creating a better TheScrabbled, piecing together newer and more elaborate hard drives and servers, eventually losing touch with his family, friends, the outside world and, eventually, reality.

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are better settled with words than with lasers.

Paris and I are competing in The Rails Rumble this weekend—a programming competition that involves building a web application from start to finished in 48 hours. We will be fueled by Jolt Cola and shitty pizza and we aim to sleep (and bathe) as little as humanly possible. Why? What possible reward could be worth losing an entire weekend cooped up in front of a computer?

So some crazy shit happened when Spore was released for the mac. Read more if you’re interested in the how and why, but if not, just click here to get taken to the pirate bay page for half life II for the Mac. In the description, you’ll see links for ep 1, 2 Portal, and Counter Strike.