Posts from January 2002

Jesus Beeper

The always-classic Jesus Beeper! (Note: That is not a complete sentence. This is.)

Sims

“Imagine a computer game in which you follow all the rules, but your characters still die, because someone has introduced a virus into the game. Not only that, but the person who invented the game is the one who is distributing the virus.”

Tatooine Womp Rat

Tatooine Womp Rat

The majestic Tatooine Womp Rat is in serious danger of extinction, which is why Boba Fett and other Bounty Hunters have formed the Save the Womp Rat society. Won’t you please join the Save the Tatooine Womp Rat Campaign?

Web Design

The webbedENVIRONMENTS site, from the author of DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web: 2nd ed has been in my link list for years. There are some terrific essays here, including a good frames / no frames argument.

Bucs

Man. The Bucs are just horrible. How the hell did they even make the playoffs? They are pathetic.

One of My Turns

One of My Turns – Pink Floyd

AD&D

I can’t remember where I found this link, but here are my personal AD&D statistics: Str: 13, Int: 13, Wis: 17, Dex: 13, Con: 14, Chr: 17 I never really played AD&D but for a little while when I was an early teenager I bought a bunch of the books and created games and maps

Glassdog

Here’s a classic article about web design that everyone should read at least once.

Calendar

Want to add one of those groovy-cool calendars to your blog? MovableType 1.4 lets you! The extended text of this entry shows you the code. How cool is that?

Pitfall!

Activision has created an online version of Pitfall! to celebrate its 20th anniversary. You’ll need to get Shockwave to play, but it’s pretty cool. link via me-fi

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.