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Links.net was the first site with pages of link collections that I used regularly. It was actually the personal site of Justin Hall -- still is, I think -- who was also the first one I recall seeing chronicle events of his life on his site regularly. The earliest capture at the Wayback Machine is an example of what he used to post, but at this point the site was more blog and less link collection.

I suppose if you want to see what's hosted at that domain now you have to know what you're looking for.

There's also a lot of people who write embedded applications in DOS or DOS-like OSs. Having an open source alternative to aging, poorly supported closed-source OSs is good news to them.

Just guessing, but probably this is what she is going to reply to the slashdot crowd relatively to this thread :DDD

Each soundproof cabin will contain a sofa that converts into a double bed, a pull down desk, closet space, adjustable mood lighting, a shower, wireless Internet, an iPod connection and a flat-screen TV

That's huge compared to what they have in Japan. In Japan, they have what are called capsule hotels", which is basically like the sleeping tubes in the movie the 5th element.

Here's some more info on Thresh (Dennis Fong):
http://www.links.net/vita/gx/dennis/

I watched his Q2 demos back in the day, and they were friggin' unbelievable.

That wasn't Lord British. That was Chuckles, in what I recall was his first solo venture (Wing Commander didn't come until a few years later).

All right, we'll call it a draw.

Anyways, Autoduel wasn't that great. A good Car Wars game would be awesome, though. Imagine the potential for destruction and mayhem on a modern PC, rather than the Apple IIe. I'd kill for a good, modern vehicle combat game.

Yes indeed, it's a gaming concept that's long-overdue.

'/snubs his nose at the topic nazis

"The wireless and Internet worlds are colliding, and neither will be the same again," said EarthLink founder and director Sky Dayton who will serve as chief executive officer of the SK-EarthLink joint venture. "In South Korea, kids on the street are using their mobile phones to listen to music, watch TV, videoconference, locate their friends, and access the Internet--as well as make voice calls--as opposed to the U.S. where the mobile experience is primarily about talking on the phone. Americans are living in the past. Utilizing emerging 3G networks and harnessing the explosive growth of Wi-Fi, SK-EarthLink will take the wireless experience in the U.S. to a new level."

I agree that Americans are living in the past, with the small exteptions of the T-Mobile Sidekick and the N-Gage the vast majority of mobile phone users or just talking or texting.

Many visitors may even be able to pick up easy words from signs in English rather than trying to translate Japanese characters.

They already have signs in English in many places. This is nothing new.

The problem is this is mostly in the touristy areas. Get off the beaten path and everything's Japanese only, and that's never going to change. You're not going to convince the local municipality of Ryu-Gasaki in Ibaraki prefecture to change all of its signs for the three tourists they get per year, for example. That's true of most areas of Japan and even a lot of the non-tourist areas in big cities, and it's true not just of the cities themselves but of small businesses, many of whom are run by people with limited English skills (and so who could not realistically write everything properly in English for tourists anyway).

Giving out these PDA's would basically help free people from having to stay within these few tourist areas (if you read stuff like this, you'd think all of Japan consisted of the Shibuya, Akihabara, and Shinjuku wards of Tokyo), which can only increase tourist business nationwide.

What Japan really needs to go along with this, though, is a major international ad campaign (perhaps partnering with ANA and JAL - they sort of tried this with their "Yokoso Japan" campaign but they didn't actually run any TV ads in the US). Where I live in NYC, we pretty routinely see ads for visiting other countries (mostly in Europe but also Australia, Canada, Singapore, China and others), but I have never once seen an ad for Japan. It's not a place most people seem to think of as a tourist spot. But I don't think there's a real lack of interest, it's just not the first thought people have when considering a vacation - whenever I tell anybody I'm going there, their first reaction is "Oh! That sounds great!" As if I'd just reminded them of something they'd forgotten.

> a new carmageddonish game [...] a
> great singleplayer story rich mode.

That reminds me of the excellent old game AutoDuel.... good times playing that one. Lord British, where art thou?

Of course, there's more to the Road Warrior than just driving around, but that should be a large part of it. Done right, it could be pretty cool :)

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.

As another fellow said, Sundog was awesome. Also, Autoduel.

I'd also love to see someone remake Ikari Warriors with the Crimsonland engine.

Very impressive bit of software. Runs VGA programs in a window, something Microsoft never figured out how to do. Does a great job of emulating old sound cards. But it's a bit scary to see it gobble up more than half the cycles on my 1 GHz machine when I'm playing Sword of the Samurai!

Wallowing in narcissism has nothing to do with weblogs, although the mass media have been propagating that slur since the earliest days.

Does having a popular weblog somehow give _you_ the right to define what weblogging is or should be, what is included and excluded? Or are you basing this on some survey of weblogs out there?

I certainly don't consider your non-personal blog any more authentic than things like this that were exploring personal topics eight years ago. Dave Winer has been posting psuedo-diary entries on Scripting News and DaveNet since the mid-1990s.

How dare you try to define weblogging for the rest of us.

This game killed tons of my grade school hours... and still I don't think i explored all of germany

You make me think of Sword of the Samurai. This gem made a virtue of its hardware limitations by making everything look like a Japanese painting. And the music wasn't simply good, it blended seamlessly into the action. Plot got a little predictable after a while, though.

Unless you're wealthy
Capsule Rooms

Reading between the lines -- the answer to the question you really want to ask is "Yeah, you will." Is Gas Panic still in business?

Seriously, though, getting a job there is a good idea. Getting paid in yen makes life there much more affordable, but more importantly, the workplace is such a central part of Japanese culture that you'll be missing out on an enormous amount by telecommuting. Also, when starting out, go someplace that has a sizeable foreign staff. They'll be a crucial lifeline for the first few months.

I did the bonehead English teacher route (in Nagoya) so can't advise about IT jobs but I did have a blast there.

Interpretive dance - imagine the havoc this would wreak on any form of motion/gps detection/tracking

Finger Painting - for all you Gulliani haters out there, I'm painting you a message with one of my fingers ... can't hear it ? here ... let me turn it up for you ...

Origami - oooh but hey, let's go one step further, instead of paper, let's use body parts as described in the linked article

Opera - as a recovering wagnerian baritone, it would be easy to enter a subway train, and threaten to continue bellowing until passengers meet my demands.

Certainly, we've got to be careful not to let our civil liberties become victims of the recent terrorist attacks. However, art forms that attract attention to the performer I think are more a narcissistic mockery of the madness than anything else.

BTW, yes, I have an undergrad degree in the liberal arts, so there is a sense of ascetics with this nerd ...

... so let's have some fun ... can you think of some others ? Let's hear'm

TechTVs History of the First-Person Shooter
Blue's News FPS Guide and History
First Person Shooters
MediaPipes History of the First Person Shooter
3D Action Planets History of the FPS Shooter.

Also, here's a link to Spasism that claims to be the first First-Person Shooter 3D multiplayer networked game, circa 1974!.

If anything, you could say Doom was the first game to show that the PC could now be considered a serious games playing machine.

liB

Ah, Lord British... there's a name that brings me back. Not that I played any of the games mentioned thus far.

I remember his name from AutoDuel (a bit more info), a conversion for the Apple ][ (well, the one I played) by Lord British and Chuckles from the Steve Jackson Games PnP game Car Wars.

Why do I mention this? Becuase AutoDuel was the greatest game of all time. It was Road Warrior meets the eastern seaboard, and was great fun. Of course, my original 5.25" disks got corrupted, but I still have it on an Apple ][ emulator. I don't play much anymore, but it was a fantastic game.

I thought there were plans to make an updated version... did anyone hear anything about that? This was a few years ago. Google hasn't turned up much...

http://www.links.net/

and it's been around since 1994!! Well thats according to NSI.com... so wouldn't Slashdot be considered one of these Bloggers?
what a fucking waste of time if you ask me...

• http://www.cedmagic.com/
• Justin Halls page on the CED

A while ago I came across a page describing someones attempts to register the domain fuck.com. The information may be a little dated, since it all took place during InterNICs monopoly over registration, but it is useful (and somewhat entertaining) nonetheless. The url is http://www.links.net/webpub/fuck.com.htm l.

Since I did attempt to register it early, perhaps I could fight to lay claim to it these days. It certainly would be fun to have! Right now I'm trying to pay my bills, play computer games, and make sweet love to my woman, so if I get all that done, maybe I'll call up a lawyer.

I wrote up the quest here:
http://www.links.net/webpub/fuck.com.html

But wait! Links.net is still around and kicking just fine... and Justin occasionally throws new stuff in.

--bdj