– From Wednesday’s Girl Genius strip.

I actually came across Dadasaurus Rex a couple of weeks ago. It lends itself very well to the treatment since not only is the panel layout the same in each strip, the art is the same as well. Here’s a rather excellent one I got:

A fairly accurate depiction of what happens when you don’t get enough sleep, I think. :)

I know it’s becoming something of a cliché these days to say that (not to mention being semantically dubious), but it did make me realise: not only do we now have things comparable to PADDs, tricorders and communicators from Star Trek (PDAs and mobile phones), all of which seemed terribly futuristic at the time, we are improving on them by merging their functions (smart phones). But the robotic hoover seems the clincher to me, considering it’s one of the many tiny details in Deus Ex which gives the game a “futuristic” atmosphere.

Ironically, the one technology that is arguably most characteristic of the “futuristic” era, the most socially and politically disruptive technology ever, is the one thing the sci-fi authors never predicted, at least in the form it now takes.

(Footnote: Of course, if anyone can point me towards an SF author predicting the international, egalitarian, democratic Web in a similar form to what we have now — not to mention the FLOSS movement, which I consider an integral part of the whole thing — I’ll happily retract that statement. Note to self: read some William Gibson.)

Having discovered that Liferea displays web pages using Firefox’s engine (and so you don’t have to open all links in a separate program), I decided to re-add all the web comic feeds which don’t embed the comics.

The last entry in the User Friendly feed was a feedback item about the “AJ in Nethack” story arc. Apparently someone has actually come up with a patch that implements the “Turbonerd” class which AJ played. Bizarre. No prizes for guessing what the deities are called :)

There was also a link to a server where you could play Nethack with this patch over telnet (nuclearwombats.net, port 20040). It’s not all that mind-blowing (your starting weapon is a +0 cluebat :), but you can connect over IPv6. So now there are two useful (*cough*) things I can do with IPv6 (the other being connecting to the Freenode IRC network). Yay.

Edit: Damn, you can’t connect over IPv6 after all. Seems I was just confused by it trying to connect, and didn’t notice that it fails.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=41

That woman is spookily like Jo...