My Internet pal Roxy and others have been keeping the lolcats thing going for a while through pretty goofy applications of lolcat captions to various other things — there’s of course LOLTrek, LOLWho, LOLPotter, etc. She started rewatching Twin Peaks the other day and now has me caught up in making LOLPeaks for no good [...]

It dawned on me this evening that, while I’d posted some shameless self-promotion to Joystick101.org and Constance had posted some shameless self-promotion to TerraNova, I’d never actually bothered to post any shameless self-promotion to my own weblog about a new research blog I’m involved in. So, here ya go: For the past few weeks, I’ve [...]

As per usual, I’m a little behind everyone else, but, I wanted to make sure I devoted a blog entry to Dennis Jerz‘s excellent “Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther’s Original ‘Adventure’ in Code and in Kentucky”, recently published in Digital Humanities Quarterly, v1n2. How can a paper about the first text adventure [...]

September 8th, the birthday of Star Trek, the TV that for better or worse, is the one I know the most about. Forty-one years young, and ready to start anew with some guy from Lost and some dude from Heroes. I haven’t had much time to post in the past few weeks, but I have [...]