ORIGINALLY AIRED: 3/9/2005
Dungeon Majesty, Game Developers Conference, Batmobile
Episode #5039
| Linus Switches? Linus Torvolds, known for poo-pooing OSX, admits he actually uses a Power Mac G5 as his desktop system. (It’s running Linux, natch.)
Wipe Out: Here’s a simple skiing game that’s highly addictive, especially the crashing part: Ski Stunt at www.motionplayground.com or Rocket Download. Feel the Spirit: A televangelist’s wife recommends that backsliding Christians get a “Holy Ghost enema,” and fortunately cameras were rolling. |
| Playing Dungeons & Dragons was once an activity that could get you beaten up in the locker room. Well, it still is—but the members of Dungeon Majesty have declared their love of D&D to the world. Not only do they play the venerable role-playing game, but they also broadcast their costumed bouts on Los Angeles public access cable—not to mention make short D&D movies and run a website. Sarah Low (“Shakuntala”), Christine Adolph (“Devastina”), Jennifer “JJ” Stratford (“Mystika”), Liza Cardinale (“LaTiza”), Riley Swif (“Dungeon Master”) even came onto the show to convert Brendan to the D&D way.
Revel in the glory that is D&D at DungeonMajesty.com. |
| Don’t Mess With Harvard: The Ivy Leaguer’s business school gives the boot to student applicants who tried to hack into their admission files. RPGers Need Not Apply: The Israeli Army discriminates against D&D players by automatically giving them a low security clearance. Where No Blogger Has Gone Before: Fishbowl D.C. blogger Garrett Graff gains press credentials for the White House briefing room. Kevin P. reported from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and didn’t find much in terms of exciting news. Microsoft revealed nothing about its new hardware, and mostly talked about creating a uniform user interface among different games. *Yawn.* |
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| This week's User Created challenge is to Photoshop Kevin R., Kevin P., and Sarah into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. You can use any of the pictures we provide and any of your own. If you use your own images, just make sure you created them. (In other words, no Google image-search pictures!)
The deadline is Wednesday, March 16—in the morning, not the afternoon. You can enter here. |
| Today we saw footage of the amazing netipot in action, washing out a woman's nasal passages. Unfortunately, the links for clips such as these often change or become void before we actually air them. Therefore, we can only offer you the site where we originally found this web classic, which was Compfused. |
| Hardcore Batman fan Tom Woodruff built an exact replica of the Batmobile from the 1960s series. It took six years, and he built it over a Lincoln Towncar with fiberglass body panels based on molds taken from the original car (which was based on the Ford Futura show car). It comes complete with drag ‘chutes, a fire-emitting turbine, and lots of labeled switches with the word “bat” on them.
Unfortunately, Tom does not have the car on display, but you can visit the site of the original car’s creator, George Barris. |
| Jensen from Long Beach, California is worried about the required information fields in web forms—how can he prevent getting spammed?
Kevin R. recommended Gmail because it has internal spam blockers and as well as the ability to create anonymous names for use in forms, so spam will be redirected to a different folder.
Kevin R. said to double-check the site’s security certificate to see if it looks legit, and always apply the newest security updates to your web browers. |
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