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Deus Ex Machina
Smoking Section - Articles |
2003: July - August - September - November - December
2004: January |
www.penny-arcade.com | Penny Arcade | One of my personal favorite sites out there. Tycho and Gabe create a comic strip on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday basis and they're quite funny. Commentary on many great subjects and that's probably the reason why I link to them so much. | Linked in: July 9, 2003 - July 11, 2003 - July 21, 2003 - August 8, 2003 - August 11, 2003 - August 14, 2003 - August 27, 2003 - October 08, 2003 - October 15, 2003 |
| www.imdb.com | IMDB.com | The Internet Movie Database. This site is the source for all the movie information you could want. I've mentioned them many times when linking about a movie, telling about actors or writers, or making fun of Gigli. Very good site. Here's one section within IMDB that's pretty cool: 100 bottom(read: worst) movies. | Linked in: July 10, 2003 - July 15, 2003 - July 23, 2003 - July 28, 2003 - August 4, 2003 - August 8, 2003 - August 11, 2003 - September 17, 2003 - October 6, 2003 - November 13, 2003 - November 21, 2003 - December 1, 2003 |
| www.opengroupware.org | Open Groupware | Open source software. Open Groupware is a derivitave of Open Office and is the free equivalent to Microsoft Exchange. I only linked about this once and even then, I didn't actually download the software, so I don't have much else to say about this. | Linked in: July 10, 2003 |
| www.jerrycantrell.com | Official Website of Jerry Cantrell | Site of one of my favorite musicians. Jerry was the guitarist / songwriter / singer of Alice in Chains, my favorite band. I've seen him in concert twice, and I'll see him again if he ever comes around here. | Linked in: July 11, 2003 |
| wbloggar.com | W.Bloggar | This is a site with a very nice posting utility called W.Bloggar. I used to post all of my entries with that application, but I've gotten out of the habit since I don't have it on my new machine. It works nicely with MovableType, but I think it's capable of many other blogging / posting sites. | Linked in: July 11, 2003 |
| www.slashdot.org | Slashdot: News for Nerds | Great site with articles and opinions regarding everything technological or nerdy. Many good articles and interviews. | Linked in: July 11, 2003 - August 18, 2003 - August 28, 2003 - September 9, 2003 - September 19, 2003 - November 13, 2003 - November 14, 2003 - December 11, 2003 - December 12, 2003 |
| www.uspoliticsforum.com | U.S. Department of Laughs | I can't remember where I first saw this site, but it made me laugh quite a bit. What this link contains is a page full of the anti-terrorist / safety signs developed by the government. The funny part comes in when you look at the sign and realize how vague it is, and then read the comment posted about it. | Linked in: July 11, 2003 |
| www.gamesarefun.com | Games Are Fun | My main source of video game news. This site originated as a spin-off to Lunar-Net. In the time it's been around, the site has grown quite a bit and become the catch-all for game news. | Linked in: July 11, 2003 - July 29, 2003 - August 5, 2003 - August 8, 2003 - August 14, 2003 - August 25, 2003 - September 3, 2003 - September 15, 2003 - September 24, 2003 - October 6, 2003 - October 21, 2003 - November 5, 2003 - December 18, 2003 |
| www.hob.com | House of Blues, New Orleans | This is the place I saw Jerry Cantrell...twice. It's a great venue, especially for smaller shows because you can get really close to the stage, see the stage from anywhere, and you get to wait outside in a cool (and old) New Orleans alleyway. | Linked in: July 11, 2003 |
| www.siia.net | Don't Copy that Floppy | This is just the official mentioning of the anti-piracy video, "Don't Copy that Floppy." I first saw this in 7th grade Computer class and it stuck. Luckily, I found the actual video file and I have it here (.wmv, 17.3mb) | Linked in: July 21, 2003 |
| www.nextup.com | NextUp.com - TextAloud MP3 | This is a company's site for their product, TextAloud MP3. I actually downloaded this program and it works rather well. You can type or paste any text into the application and it will synthesize it as spoken words. You also have the freedom to download more sample voices or proprietary ones so that the text doesn't sound so robotic. | Linked in: July 21, 2003 |
| www.astalavista.com | AstaLaVista | Site with different search engines devoted to serials and cracks. Not too sure how well it works these days, but it used to be the mad note. | Linked in: July 21, 2003 |
| homebrew.dcemulation.com | Dreamcast Homebrew | Really cool site devoted to the Sega Dreamcast and all the after-market stuff that's been done for it. They have links to all sorts of emulators and games that were ported over to the machine by regular people like you and me (if you or I were ever to translate a game's code from pc-readable to Dreamcast-readable). | Linked in: July 22, 2003 |
| www.eddieizzard.com | Official Page of Eddie Izzard | Jessica's favorite comedian and I think he's damn awesome, too. On this site you can find Eddie-related merchandise, tour information, etc. | Linked in: July 22, 2003 |
| www.secondcomingmusic.com | Official Site of Second Coming | One of my favorite bands and they're out of Seattle, to boot. Think of a cross between Alice in Chains with Stone Temple Pilots and that's an ok description. They are damn good, though. This site holds downloads of songs, merchandise, and lots of band information. | Linked in: July 22, 2003 |
| www.homestarrunner.com | HomeStar Runner! | This is the home of Strong Bad, Homestar, Marzipan, the Teen Girl Squad, and Trogdor. There are all sorts of Flash cartoons and everything about this site is cool. They have such a great attention to detail, especially in the menus. | Linked in: July 25, 2003 - September 16, 2003 |
| www.merl.com | iGlassware | I ran across this product one day, so I decided to mention it. It's a beer glass that, when queried by a computer or server at a computer, can monitor and report on the level of beverage in said glass. I thought it was pretty cool, but maybe not too practical just yet. | Linked in: July 28, 2003 |
| www.techtv.com/xplay | X-Play from TechTV | I watch this show every night that it's new. Good reviews, decent attention to all consoles, and people who actually like games (not to mention a particularly hot co-host) make for a really nice page and show. | Linked in: July 30, 2003 - August 12, 2003 - August 19, 2003 - September 2, 2003 - September 17, 2003 - December 2, 2003 |
| www.astroadvice.com | AstroAdvice.com | I linked to this site because it offers free birth charts (zodialogical) if you sign up. The result is pretty cool, and it seems to fall into place with all my other zodiac-related stuff. | Linked in: July 31, 2003 |
| www.zophar.net | Zophar's Domain | The one-stop place for anything emulator-related. It has emulators for everything, but no ROMs...you have to provide your own. | Linked in: August 7, 2003 |
| www.etv.state.ms.us | PRM - Public Radio Mississippi | Website for the state's public radio station. All classical music and talk radio...usually intelligent talk radio, and news. | Linked in: August 8, 2003 |
| www.ncsx.com | National Console Support, Inc. | This site was only important because it mentioned and had an image of the Game Theory Admiral (GTA) that would be a handheld console and could play GBA games. | Linked in: August 8, 2003 |
| www.ocremix.org | OverClocked Remix | This site is great in that it has tons of remixes of video game music, and they're really good sounding. Some of the remixes even sound better than the original game music. | Linked in: August 8, 2003 |
| www.viewaskew.com | View Askew | Kevin Smith's production company's site. You know, it has all sorts of info pertaining to the Jersey series as well as tons of merchandise from his movies. Good place to check every now and then. | Linked in: August 11, 2003 |
| www.neonwheels.com | Preacher's Divinity | Website about one of my favorite comic books, Preacher. It has forums for discussion, multimedia goodies, etc...all having to do with the Preacher series. | Linked in: August 11, 2003 |
| www.freq.com | Freq.com - Made by Freqs for Freqs | Official page for the PS2 games Frequency and Amplitude. | Linked in: August 13, 2003 |
| www.avantbrowser.com | Avant Browser | Site for the application Avant Browser. I use this program because it's a container for Internet Explorer and it provides modern browser capabilities with the functionality of IE. You can skin it, have tabs, block popups, etc. | Linked in: August 14, 2003 |
| www.x-entertainment.com | Pac-Man Cereal | Just an article I came across when researching for a post. It has pictures from the original commercials and everything. Nostalgia. | Linked in: August 14, 2003 |
| www.x-entertainment.com | TMNT Cereal | Similar to the above link, this article has pictures and info regarding the TMNT cereal. | Linked in: August 14, 2003 |
| www.mandrakelinux.com | Mandrake Linux Homepage | Official site for Mandrake Linux. This is what I have running on my laptop right now. | Linked in: August 18, 2003 |
| www.redhat.com | Red Hat Linux | Official page for Red Hat Linux. I have this running on my desktop. | Linked in: August 18, 2003 |
| www.slackware.com | Slackware Linux | Official site for Slackware Linux. This is the version I aspire to have running on my laptop. | Linked in: August 18, 2003 |
| www.voodoomusicfest.com | Voodoo Music Festival | Site for the Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans. I've been to it twice and both times were excellent. Lots of bands and people. Outdoor show. | Linked in: August 19, 2003 |
| www.megsplace.com | Noozles | Fan page of a Nickelodeon kids show I used to watch. The show was about these two stuffed koala bears that could transport all over the place and do cool things when they rubbed their noses together. The site has pictures. | Linked in: August 25, 2003 |
| www.bytelevel.net | ByteLevel | This is a site of a friend of mine, Zack. He really doesn't have anything up there, but he's used it to hold things in the past (like a hacked PacMan game). | Linked in: September 6, 2003 - December 30, 2003 - January 5, 2004 |
| www.gamefly.com | Gamefly | This service is awesome. I joined Gamefly in September and I've gotten quite a few games. They now have 3 different plans: 1 game, 2 games, or 3 games at a time with incrementally different pricing. You can even buy the games from them at lower-than-store prices. | Linked in: September 16, 2003 - September 17, 2003 - October 30, 2003 - November 5, 2003 - November 14, 2003 - December 2, 2003 - December 15, 2003 |
| www.holyshiite.com/caver/ | Ted's Caving Page | I ran across a link to this page in a forum. It's a long story, but it has some really creepy parts in there. This guy goes to a local cave (he's a spelunker) and discovers a new place he hasn't been before. What happens to him when he goes is the creepy part. | Linked in: September 26, 2003 |
| www.ctrlaltdel-online.com | Ctrl-Alt-Del (Control Atl Delete to you non-l337s) | Another good webcomic. Generally only deals with games, but many of their strips are humorous. | Linked in: September 30, 2003 |
| www.nvisionsolutions.com | NVision Solutions, Inc. | My job. I've been here since May 2003 and it's been pretty awesome. | Linked in: October 6, 2003 |
| www.80stees.com | 80s T-Shirts | I've only bought one shirt from this place, but they have a huge selection of iconic and cool shirts. There is a drawback, though, and that's how much the shirts cost...pretty steep for your standard shirt bought via the web. | Linked in: October 17, 2003 |
| www.happypenguin.org | The Linux Game Tome | Website with information and directions for playing games on Linux. Games are also available for download. Most of the stuff is open source or public domain, so nothing of super quality. | Linked in: October 17, 2003 |
| www.linuxgames.com | LinuxGames | Another site with Linux game information and downloads (I think). I never really did anything with these pages after I found them...then again, I haven't really used Linux since this point. | Linked in: October 17, 2003 |
| home.tiscali.nl | The End of the World (Shockwave Cartoon) | Chuck sent this link to me one day and it cracked me up. It's probably some of the worst Flash animation I've seen, but it's funny as hell. | Linked in: October 30, 2003 |
| www.shoutcast.com | Shoutcast - Streaming Radio | I first found out about Shoutcast a few years ago when I first learned HTML. I wanted to be able to stream my own Winamp playlist and listen to it at work or whatever. Well, I found out how to do that (not hard at all) and also found some other good stations to listen to. The music ranges from video game tunes to downtempo electronica to classical to rock to whatever else you can think of. Shoutcast is great. | Linked in: November 7, 2003 - December 2, 2003 - December 30, 2003 |
| www.lucasarts.com | LucasArts Website | I'm a fan of Star Wars...a big fan. I don't like what Lucas has done to the franchise recently, but the core is still the same. Anyway, there are quite a few Star Wars games that I've been privvy to and they've been pretty fun so far. My main reason for linking this is the Dark Forces game series. I hopped on at the beginning with Dark Forces. After that came Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, my favorite game for a long time. LucasArts followed that with Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast and after that one was Jedi Outcast 2: Jedi Academy. | Linked in: November 7, 2003 |
| www.bbc.co.uk | Dr. Who - Scream of the Shalka | Pretty cool-looking Flash cartoon of Dr. Who. The story is pretty uninteresting, though, so I only saw the first half of the first episode. | Linked in: November 14, 2003 |
| www.movabletype.org | Movable Type | Here's the official page for the content management engine that I run on this site. It's insanely easy to setup and customize. You can control everything, as you may have noticed by mine and Jessica's pages. Very cool web-app. | Linked in: November 25, 2003 |
| www.chimericalchild.com | Chimerical Child | The first music page I found that had songs to download. I discovered Chimerical Child through shoutcast and searched Google to see if it had anything about them. Luckily, their site had quite a few songs...good ones, too. | Linked in: December 2, 2003 - December 30, 2003 |
| www.death-curse.com | Death-Curse.com | Pretty decent fan site for Harry Potter. Many rumors, fanfics, media, and other things that can kill time if you're a wizard at heart. The rumor section is especially interesting to see since the next two books have a lot of potential things that can happen. | Linked in: December 8, 2003 |
| www.alivans.com | Alivan's Wand Shop | This place offers wooden wands like the ones in the Harry Potter movies. These wands look really sweet and they aren't too pricey, either. There's a decent variety, as well. I want to get one of these someday. | Linked in: December 8, 2003 |
| www.park-sabers.com | Parks Sabers, Inc. | They have some nice-looking lightsaber handles for sale. Pretty expensive, but pretty cool, too. The sabers they offer now have CRT blades for added realism. | Linked in: December 8, 2003 |
| www.hatrack.com | Hatrack River - The Official Site of Orson Scott Card | Official site of one of my favorite authors. He wrote my all-time favorite book, Ender's Game and his other offerings are pretty damn good. Also on this site are "Uncle Orson's Writing Lessons," sort of a FAQ about his take on writing (lots...and I do mean LOTS of good information) as well as a place to sign up for writing workshops. | Linked in: December 12, 2003 |
| www.historyofhyrule.com | Zelda: The History of Hyrule | Nice site that has Zelda manga. I think most are either translated or subbed, but they look pretty cool. I didn't go through all of them, though. | Linked in: December 12, 2003 |
| www.brunching.com | The Geek Hierarchy | Image of a flow diagram depicting the levels of geekiness. The flow moves in the manner of "thinks they're less geeky than..." | Linked in: December 12, 2003 |
| advision.webevents.yahoo.com | Spiderman 2 Trailer | Sweet trailer of Spiderman 2 (electric boogaloo). It streams from the site and is tiny, but looks really cool. | Linked in: December 15, 2003 |
| www.hubbards.co.nz | Cafe Au Lait | Product page for a New Zealand cereal. This cereal has coffee-flavored flakes, but no caffeine. | Linked in: December 19, 2003 |
| www.archive.org | Details for Izmar | This is a page that had songs by Izmar that I wanted to download. I heard Izmar on Shoutcast and Googled to see what came up...this was the result. I haven't checked the main site yet, but I'm thinking that there are similar songs available. | Linked in: December 30, 2003 |
| www.techtv.com/unscrewed | Unscrewed with Martin Sargent | Website of the show that comes on after X-Play. Pretty funny, better when intoxicated. It covers all things Internet-related. | Linked in: December 30, 2003 |
| www.wilwheaton.net | Wil Wheaton's Homepage | After falling out of the Star Trek spotlight, Wil Wheaton started a blog and website where he was the sole programmer and administrator. A few years later and his site is huge, with his fan base being monumental in proportions. He's also a really good writer, so that helps. | Linked in: December 30, 2003 |
| www.fark.com | Fark | Main purpose is to provide interesting news links...funny or unique ones. This site also houses a huge Photoshop contest and archive with some hilarious winners. | Linked in: December 30, 2003 |
| www.abandoned-places.com | Abandoned Places | This page is awesome. It's urban exploration. This guy goes around to abandoned buildings like plants, factories, hotels, hospitals, and even castels, and he takes artsy photos of them. I grabbed all that I liked on there because they were so cool. Great images for design work...very industrial. | Linked in: January 5, 2004 |
| www.khavi.org | Kahvi Collection: Audio Sculptors | Web house for a lot of downtempo music. Click the "Audio" link and you'll be brought to the release area...that's where the mp3s are. | Linked in: January 7, 2003 |
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The Smoking Section
Deus Ex Machina - Articles |
2003: July - August - September - October - December
2004: January |
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| www.harrison.lib.ms.us | Pass Christian Library | This is where Jessica works, her third library now. There are some cool people there and a nice selection of books. I used to go there when I was younger. | Linked in: July 19, 2003 - August 15, 2003 |
| www.thexfiles.com | Official Site of the X-Files | Jessica's legacy. X-Files to her is similar to Lunar for me. She has every episode on tape and her DVD collection of the show is growing, too. This site has since been changed due to Fox sucking and taking the site down after the show was over. | Linked in: July 19, 2003 - July 21, 2003 - September 30, 2003 |
| worldofwings.diaryland.com | My World of Wings | This is Shannon's diary on Diaryland, where Jessica and I both began the posting craze. Shannon is pretty cool and her posts reflect that. She has a ton of cats and you can find out more by clicking that link. | Linked in: July 25, 2003 - September 11, 2003 - September 30, 2003 - October 25, 2003 - December 31, 2003 |
| www.aquarius-productions.org | Aquarius Theater Productions | Ha. Jessica linked this, but I know all of the people in this company. You see, Aquarius is a community theater company that I've done a few shows with. They're generally pretty good, too, so I like doing shows for them. The site has schedules, photos, etc. | Linked in: July 28, 2003 |
| www.scarflix.com | Scaryflix.com | A friend of ours, Jonathan, runs this site. He's a film student and he's trying to make a few movies, but his main interest is scary movies. He's a huge fan of them, has starred in a few B-movies, and is making one right now. | Linked in: August 4, 2003 |
| www.techtv.com/x-play | X-Play | I linked to this in my section and Jessica linked to it, too, so I put it on here as well. It's no surprise, really, because we both have an equal interest in the show...and we watch it every night that it's new. | Linked in: August 5, 2003 - September 17, 2003 - September 27, 2003 |
| www.wlox.com | WLOX Channel 3 News | I know the only reason Jessica put this link here was for reference when she was talking about her friend Karen Abernathy. | Linked in: August 8, 2003 |
| msshipisland.com | Ship Island Excursions | Website to the barrier island we have out in the Gulf of Mexico. I've been out there countless times, but Jessica and I went out there in August. | Linked in: August 15, 2003 |
| www.usm.edu | University of Southern Mississippi | Jessica's wonderful place of education. The main campus is in Hattiesburg, but she attends the Gulf Park campus since it's only 10 minutes away from her house. | Linked in: August 15, 2003 |
| arieskms.diaryland.com | Eli Lilly Evangelist | Kristyn's page on Diaryland. She's one of Jessica's best friends and she calls me things ranging from King of the Goober People to Arm Boy. Anyway, she's living in Birmingham now and it seems like, not counting the medical stuff, everything seems to be turning out right for her. | Linked in: August 15, 2003 - September 15, 2003 |
| donestefan.diaryland.com | Donestefan | Stephen's Diaryland page. I haven't checked his site in a while, but he used to post quite often. You know, Jessica and I really don't talk to him that much, but he does live in Hattiesburg, so he's not around that much. | Linked in: September 11, 2003 - October 25, 2003 |
| www.morganwebb.com | Morgan's Web | Morgan Webb is one of the co-hosts of X-Play and she's pretty hot. This site holds her blog (which is powered by MovableType, too). She doesn't update too often, but the few posts that are there are pretty cool. | Linked in: September 17, 2003 |
| www.adultswim.com | Adult Swim | Site to one of the greatest ideas in television history: Adult Swim. During this time slot on the Cartoon Network, hilarious shows like Futurama and Family Guy are aired. They also show a lot of anime, but most of that stuff is pretty good, too. | Linked in: September 27, 2003 |
| www.fox.com | Twentieth-Century Fox | Fox Television's website. It sucks now because of all the crap they show on that channel, but there are a few redeeming qualities...mainly cartoons, but what can you do? | Linked in: September 27, 2003 |
| www.frashii.com | Weeeeeee! | This is a link to something I'd seen a long time ago, but just recently showed Jessica. It's a Flash-style music video of the Weee! Squirrel. Pretty funny. Hold on to your gonads and strife if you go there. | Linked in: October 26, 2003 - October 30, 2003 |
| home.tiscali.nl | The End of the World | This is that "End of the World" Flash cartoon that Chuck sent my way. It's funny. | Linked in: October 30, 2003 |
| www.soundsoftheholidays.com | Sounds of the Holidays | This is the site of a show I performed in December. It's a holiday show and it's not really my thing, but it turned out ok. I just hate Christmas music so much and that's all it was. Jessica came and saw it and I think the loathing for Christmas music was passed on to her as a result. | Linked in: December 5, 2003 |
| www.alivans.com | Alivan's Wand Shop | Another link that both Jessica and I posted. This is that site that makes the wooden wands similar to those in Harry Potter. | Linked in: December 10, 2003 |
| www.zerotoys.com | Zero Toys, Inc. | This place make cubicle toys for the most part. Jessica saw that they offered guns that could shoot smoke rings or balls of air. Sounds like all sorts of fun. | Linked in: December 13, 2003 |
| www.imdb.com | IMDB | The ever-present IMDB. Huge resource for movie and movie-related info. | Linked in: December 29, 2003 |
| worldsofjms.com | World of JMS | JMS, or J. Michael Straczynski, is one of my favorite comic book writers. He started out by creating Babylon Five. After that show's run he migrated to comics and began writing for Image. His first book, that I know of, is Rising Stars and it's damn cool. However, I think his best work is either what he did with Amazing Spider-man when he was writing that or Midnight Nation, a very very cool series. | Linked in: December 29, 2003 |
| www.neilgaiman.com | Neil Gaiman | Neil's official page. The link goes to stuff about Gaiman's flagship comic book, Sandman. I bought vol. 1 of Sandman a while ago for Jessica and she liked it. Hell, I liked it. It's different that pretty much everything else out there. That's not even mentioning Gaiman's actual books...they're so good it's hard to believe. | Linked in: December 29, 2003 |
| www.techtv.com/unscrewed | Unscrewed with Martin Sargent | Martin Sargent's show. Sometimes funny, but better if you're inebriated. | Linked in: December 29, 2003 |
| www.wilwheaton.net | Wil Wheaton | Willie Wheaton (Wesley Crusher's) website. Excellent writing and insights into everyone's favorite Starfleet Ensign. | Linked in: December 29, 2003 |
| jeanful.diaryland.com | [Summer's] Diaryland Diary | Jessica's friend Summer and her diary. I don't think she's posted anything for a while, either, but she's cool and we get to see her on a fairly regular basis. | Linked in: December 31, 2003 |
| www.hatrack.com | Hatrack River - Official Site of Orson Scott Card | My favorite author's site. Jessica's also involved with the Writers Workshops offered there. | Linked in: January 5, 2004 |
| www.bttf.com | The Billy Zane Encyclopedia | Apparently this site has all sorts of info on Billy Zane. He's such a great actor...except that he's not. | Linked in: January 5, 2004 |
| www.brendanfraser.com | Brenden Fraser | Brenden Fraser's website. I didn't even know this existed. | Linked in: January 5, 2004 |
| www.penny-arcade.com | Penny Arcade | One of my favorite pages and Jessica goes there from time to time, too. | Linked in: January 2, 2004 |
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News Articles
Deus Ex Machina - Smoking Section |
2003: July - August - September - October - November - December
2004: January |
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| www.cnn.com | "Police: Arrests foiled teens' killing spree plot" | One of those wonderful articles about kids wanting to go on a shooting spree and blaming it on video games. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - July 9, 2003 |
| www.slashdot.org | "Oldest Planet Ever Discovered" | I was being a space nerd when I read this article. It's been too long since I actually checked out the article, so I can't really say anything else about it. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - July 11, 2003 |
| www.slashdot.org | "'Quick 'n Dirty' vs. 'Correct and Proper'" | Slashdot article talking about the differences between typical (quick and dirty) programming versus planned programming. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - July 11, 2003 |
| www.gamesarefun.com | "Tomb Raider Film Opens Poorly" | Article regarding the latest Tomb Raider movie. It sucked in the box office and Paramount studios was blaming Eidos, the company that developed the latest Tomb Raider game. According to Paramount, the game sucked so that's the reason that no one came to see the movie. You know, I thought no one went to see the movie because it sucked just as much, if not worse, than the game. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - July 29, 2003 |
| www.techtv.com | "DIY Arcade Cocktail Cabinet" | Article provided by TechTV and mentioned on X-Play. It has the steps to build an arcade cabinet using a computer, some emulators, and some money. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - July 30, 2003 |
| www.cnn.com | "Review: 'Gigli' is really, really bad" | This was when I first caught wind of how much this movie sucked. It bombed in the box office, got terrible reviews, and broke off the marriage of its two stars. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - August 4, 2003 |
| www.gamesarefun.com | "Unity News" | Article with screenshots of an upcoming game for the Game Cube. It looks like a new version of Rez or Amplitude. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - August 5, 2003 |
| www.gamesarefun.com | "Rogue Squadron III Info" | Article containing information on Rogue Squadron 3 and the bonus disc you could get if you preordered it. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - August 5, 2003 |
| www.gamesarefun.com | "Hip to Distribute Playboy Title" | Article about a game where you are Hugh Hefner trying to build a successful porn empire. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - August 14, 2003 |
| www.starryskies.com | "Close Encounters of the Martian Kind" | This article had some cool info on Mars when it was closer to the earth than it ever has been. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - August 25, 2003 |
| www.hubblesite.org | "Mars: Closest Encounter" | Another article regarding how close Mars was to us. Not lengthy. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - August 27, 2003 |
| www.slashdot.org | "Walking Animatronic Dinosaur at Disney Park" | A new animatronic dinosaur was developed by Disney Imagineers that could stand on its own and actually walk. This was made possible by the cart it pushes. While helping to balance the dinosaur, the cart also has the heavy cables and other things needed for animatronics. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - August 28, 2003 |
| www.slashdot.org | "RIAA Sues 12-year-old Girl" | This was about the infamous innocent girl being sued by RIAA for downloading mp3s with Kazaa. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - September 9, 2003 |
| www.gamesarefun.com | "Capcom announces Mega Man Anniversary Collection" | This article talks about the upcoming Megaman Anniversary Collection and its platforms, included games, etc. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - September 15, 2003 |
| www.slashdot.org | "Monty Python's Holy Grail goes Broadway" | Short article about Holy Grail being adapted for Broadway by Eric Idle. I haven't seen any more new regarding this, though. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - September 19, 2003 |
| www.gamesarefun.com | "Nintendo Declares War" | Article stating that Nintendo was dropping the GameCube's price to $100. More posts about this positive move by Nintendo were written. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - September 24, 2003 |
| www.gamesarefun.com | "GameCube sales quadruple" | As a result of the price drop, GameCubes became a hot item. More to follow. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - October 6, 2003 |
| news.bbc.co.uk | "Comic Izzard tipped as new Dr Who" | BBC article mentioning that Eddie Izzard was being considered for the role of Dr. Who. Personally, I think it would be great, but he wouldn't have much time for his stand-up if he did a show full-time. I haven't heard if a decision was reached yet, either. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - October 6, 2003 |
| www.gamesarefun.com | "GameCube Nearly Doubles Market Share in US" | Like I said, there was lots of Nintendo news after they dropped the GameCube price. The market share for the Cube exploded in the months before Christmas. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - November 5, 2003 |
| www.cdfreaks.com | "Nokia's N-Gage mobile gaming device has been cracked" | Article about the shitty N-Gage. I thought it was quite funny that someone exploited this useless piece of technology. Serves Nokia right for trying to make a phone play games. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - November 12, 2003 |
| www.slashdot.org | "Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King'" | Slashdot post stating that Christopher Lee's character, Saruman, was cut from the theatrical release of Return of the King. He had some scenes in the movie and they'll most likely be in the extended version of the DVD. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - November 13, 2003 |
| www.slashdot.org | "Neil Gaiman Responds" | Awesome interview with Neil Gaiman. Slashdot readers submitted questions and the moderators picked the best and sent them to Gaiman. He took a little while, but sent his replies back. Very interesting interview. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - November 14, 2003 |
| www.gamespot.com | "Xbox deflects real bullets" | A man got pissed at his roommates and shot the xbox they continually played. the shot jarred the xbox, but the bullet ricocheted off of it. that machine is so hoss that it deflects bullets. I'm not sure if the news is real, but it's too good to not include. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - December 4, 2003 |
| www.slashdot.org | "We Are All Nerds Now" | Article discussing how mainstream culture has become nerdier or geekier. This is a result of the saturation of technology, computing, and gaming into everyday life. | Linked in: Deus Ex Machina - December 12, 2003 |
| story.news.yahoo.com | "Video game music gains recognition" | Cool article about how video game music is having more thought and effort put into it. | Linked in: The Smoking Section - December 31, 2003 |
| www.penny-arcade.com | "Perhaps Best Unsaid" | This article/rant was in response to a New York Post article criticizing violent games. The original article (NYPost) is no longer available, though. | Linked in: January 2, 2004 |
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