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Been fairly busy fending off vultures this past week, but had to denote this one: George Will, in between bemoaning the American public for eschewing spats and top hats for comfortable jeans, had this witty rejoinder in today’s column: Seventy-five percent of American “gamers” — people who play video

I still can’t tell you where I work. But apparently the carrion birds know. Yes, that is a vulture. Yes, it just landed on our patio. Yes, I think this means we’re about to be dead or targeted for some sort of buyout. A coworker took another picture:

Apparently GDC was the spot for all sorts of well-mannered discourse – as seen on Greg Costikyan’s blog (via Zen of Design), a studio head at Epic Games declared that there were no EA spouses there! Mike Capps, head of Epic, and a former member of the board of

Sadly, the biggest story to hit Austin yesterday wasn’t an April Fool’s joke – Time Warner, the local cable provider, announced that tiered pricing and bandwidth caps would be coming into effect virtually immediately, for Austin/San Antonio TX, Rochester NY, and Greensboro NC. It’s no coincidence whatsoever

Funniest: City of Heroes wins, hands down, but I’m old-school and biased. Almost Most Disturbing: World of Warcraft forums translates each and every post into Blizzard’s vision of roleplaying. Not A Joke But Should Be: If you live in Austin, hope you switched off of Time Warner!

Keen has the write-up of GMs supposedly being selective with service based on who’s city you’re pwning. Fact? Rumor? YOU MAKE THE CALL (because I’m a horrible carebear who doesn’t own the game and should pray for death, so I can’t). Aventurine continues to

Well, if you’re going to clone World of Warcraft, you could do worse than listen to the guys who cloned Everquest. Jeff Kaplan gave an opinionated talk that will probably have WoW players posting furiously for weeks. “This is the worst quest in World of Warcraft,” he said. “I