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Scott Jennings

NOT TECHNICALLY DEAD

…although you wouldn’t know it from my (lack of) updates. Off to Austin tomorrow for the AGC conference. If you think I’ve been travelling a lot lately, you should stop thinking about it, because, well, that’s creepy. Instead, take a look at the latest installment of Those

GENCON MADE ME SICK

No, really. I’m just now returning from the dead. Out of the 50,000 people there, one of you bastards sneezed on me.

SIR, WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO ASK YOU TO LEAVE THE CALLIOPE

Off to GenCon all next week. Until then, here’s some stormtroopers in fairyland.

SO LET IT BE WRITTEN, SO LET IT BE DONE!

In the latest chapter of Those Wacky Tyrants!, we visit our perennial favorite god-king, Turkmenbashi of Turkmenistan (Turkmenbashi means “Turkmen leader high on paint fumes” in Turkmen), who has decreed that his people will build him… a FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE! Really. “Let us build a palace of ice,” said

THEY COME FROM THE LAND OF THE ICE AND SNOW

Probably setting a world record for “testing the dedication of our fan base” this week is Eve Online, who announced their first fan fair… in Reykjavik. Yes, the capital of Iceland. Speaking of fan fairs, I will most likely be at the DAOC fan fair in Vegas (even though I

HE CAN’T BE BARGAINED WITH. HE CAN’T BE REASONED WITH. HE DOESN’T FEEL PITY, OR REMORSE, OR FEAR. AND HE ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT STOP EVER UNTIL YOU

From Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush told a roomful of top Pentagon brass on Thursday that his administration would never stop looking for ways to harm the United States. Some things you just really can’t make up. Yeah. It’s time to deploy Morgan Freeman.

WHY YES, THEY ARE THIRD WORLD DICTATORSHIPS!

Interesting article on Terra Nova from Dr. Edward Castronova, MMO economist (and also IRL economist). Is it possible that virtual world economies might make a gross impact equivalent to that of a real country? Actually, yes. Virtual worlds are already that big, economically speaking. More accurately, some unfortunate countries remain