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Guten Abend, meine Damen und Herren. Welcome to "Doug's Brauhaus von Linkenarbeitsgemeinschaftigenluftenwarnungsteinen". Tonight we are featuring a sumptuous feast of the finest in hand-picked links, personally selected by the owner. Please won't you consider the menu?
First off, we have two exquisite examples of technological cluelessness, the first of which, "Shut Up I [...]

Penny Arcade Game Trailer

The guys over at Penny Arcade have been working to bring Tycho and Gabe to "life" in an action-adventure game known as "On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness" and the preliminary trailer is a hoot:

It will ostensibly run on Mac, Linux and Windows, so you know I'll "ostensibly" be obtaining it and thus continuing my [...]

Magic, Mystery, Mayhem And Murder: It's Book Review Time.

Title: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
Author: Susanna Clarke
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Fiction
Available From: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Jonathan Strange is an odd book. Its premise is simple: it's the early 19th century and the Napoleonic wars are raging in Europe. England, once the proud seat of European magic and magicians, has all but [...]

Attack Of The Review Of The Bacon Robots!

Title: Attack of the Bacon Robots (Penny Arcade, Vol. 1) (henceforth AotBR)
Authors: Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Genre: Comic strip collection
Available From: Thinkgeek, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
The Setup
I've been a fan of the Penny Arcade crew since almost the very beginning of the strip and so I was extremely excited upon first hearing [...]

Penny Arcade - (CSS) Rebooted

Congratulations to the Penny Arcade guys on their site "reboot". The new layout looks to be a variation on the one first introduced over at the Child's Play site and I must say, it's a beauty.
Good job on the conversion guys, although the news post headlines overrun their alotted space, at least [...]

Ouch. That Smarts.

Penny Arcade: taking it to bloggers on the pages of Forbes:

I resemble those remarks. We're not all Livejournalists, after all. *grin*

Penny Arcade: Things That Make You Go "Wha…?"

As my wife and I prepare for the imminent (Imminent, do you hear me, child?) arrival of our baby, Penny Arcade helpfully (and graphically) alerted me to a "benefit" of the whole birthing process that I was unaware of.
You know what? I've reconsidered and, if what they say is true, I think I'll just [...]