D/s Personal Training

Cybil's got this exercise DVD with a hidden track that almost goes here. Makes you wonder if the trainer engages in any such extra-curricular activity.

The Order of the Stick: Dungeon of Dorukan

Is it wrong that I think it's cool that there's a massive card game based on a webcomic that's based on a role-playing game?

Smart officially unviels the new FourTwo

2008 means it'll be available in 2007 here in southern California, right?

List of faux pas - United Kingdom

Mostly common courtesy stuff, but could be handy traveling outside of the mother country.

Who Wants to Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire?

this would have been a pretty crappy article if some journalist with no clue had written it, but he wrote it himself, and it's a fascinating read.

GeekList: Bellies With Stars AKA History of the Geek

Sneeches are Sneeches and gamers are gamers, but god damn some of them are clever.

Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists

here's an awesome xmas gift for someone who doesn't spend enough time goofing around online (and therefore hasn't read them already)

YouTube - Grand Theft Mario

Robot Chicken Rules. Can't wait for the next season to come out on DVD. Well, actually I guess I can, or I'd be downloading it with bittorrent.

waiterrant.net » The High Cost of Free Stuff

Waiter Rant with a new perspective on the Science Friday discussion of Conflict of Interest in Medicine. Well, not all that new. But interesting to hear the story from someone who works in an only tangentially related field.

smart forfun2 a monster good time - Autoblog

how did i miss this one?!

How Superman Should Have Ended

"If superman was that snide that would've been a better movie" -Cybil

Also must watch: Lord of the Rings, "imagine if we'd walked there." and Surviving an Alien Attack (did anyone actually watch Jurassic Park 3 to verify if Jeff Goldbloom was in it?)

National Games Week

Barnes & Noble has a bunch of board games (real ones, like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, and Puerto Rico) out on display under a sign that says "National Games Week 2006". Given how much time I've been spending on The Geek I'm surprised I hadn't read anything about it. Anyway, I'm just psyched to be able to get some games with store credit.

HTML Dog

this site has been my go-to reference for stupid little xhtml/css syntax questions for several years now. looks like it's gotten a re-design to go with a new book. i don't need this level of reference often enough to justify buying a book, but if i knew anybody who was just getting into front-end development this is where i'd send them.

Wired 14.11: The Outsider

He jokingly attributes The Fountain's convoluted timeline to his family's habit of walking in on the middle of the first feature, staying through the second, then sticking around to catch the beginning of the first.

…now there's a proper plotline.