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Friday, March 7, 2003

Hooray! Penny Arcade has an RSS feed. Maybe this will spur other online comics to get off their asses and do likewise. 3:01:37 PM (comments [])

Hey, Excel Saga 5 came out while I wasn't paying attention. Too much media to absorb! Waah! I'd best get crackin'. 10:53:58 AM (comments [])

Press corps doyenne gets no notice [Washington Times].

A long-running Washington tradition apparently ended last night when, for the first time in memory, [Helen Thomas,] the doyenne of the White House press corps was not called on in a presidential press conference.

[via The Gamer's Nook.] 10:41:30 AM (comments [])

Freelancer continues to delight and amaze. The story mission cutscenes are extremely well done; the faces on the characters convey emotion really well, and the writing is good. It feels movie-ish without evoking the WC4 Siliwood cheese machine. I think this may be the first time that anybody has bothered to render 3D characters in a space sim; most of the recent games I can think of conveyed this sort of stuff as pilot chatter while in mission. It's a nice touch.

The gameplay hasn't revealed any hidden depths yet, but it still remains fun to go exploring around the galaxy, kicking ass and taking names. The various star systems have nicely different looks, and actually interesting geography. And if nothing else, it's interesting to poke around to see if I can find a better ship or more interesting armaments, since things aren't universally available. 9:08:45 AM (comments [])

I completely failed to point out that the second downloadable episode of the Animatrix is now available. Tasty! 9:03:15 AM (comments [])

SXSW Interactive starts today. I regret not going; I went two years ago, and enjoyed it a lot. I keep thinking "when things calm down," but they never will :) so I should just get up on it next year and go. Seeing as how I live in freakin' Austin and all. 9:01:47 AM (comments [])

Yay! Cowboy Bebop: ~~Knockin' On Heaven's Door~~The Movie is coming to US theaters on April 4th! [slashdot.org]

Yay! Austin is one of the cities it will open in! [click on "Theater Listings" in the Flash you get taken to.]

Boo! It's going to be at the Dobie, which has flat seating in the theaters, for optimal viewing of that guy in front of you with really big stupid hair.

Seriously, Cowboy Bebop is a great series, for -- among other things -- an actual musical score, and some really great writing. And the movie (cough cough I'm told certainly couldn't have seen it no sir mr dmca) is incredible. Can't wait! 8:56:53 AM (comments [])

The Terror-o-meter. "Why do banks display the time and temperature when they could show you the terror?" [via Gizmodo] 8:45:29 AM (comments [])

UK fraud trial for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant; apparently they used a not-very-elaborate system of coughs to communicate answers to the player. 8:40:30 AM (comments [])