Got some old 3.5 inch floppies laying around? Well here’s something you can do with them: make a little mini starship enterprise. I wonder if I have any still sitting around to give it a try. If it works I’ll post a picture.

Singapore Yahoo News is reporting that 28 baby girls found in suitcases on Chinese bus.

Police in southwestern China discovered 28 baby girls hidden in suitcases on a long-distance bus and apparently destined to be sold, police and a state-run newspaper said.

One of the babies had died by the time police, acting on a tip-off, found them Tuesday night on the bus at a highway toll gate in Bingyang, Guangxi province, the Beijing Morning News said.

Police at the Bingyang police station confirmed the case and told AFP more than 20 suspects had been arrested.

“The babies are fine. More than 20 people have been arrested,” one police officer said, refusing to comment further.

How can people do this. It just leaves me feeling a ill to think about it. Bleh. (link provided by Jeff)

I was looking through my news aggregator this morning and saw mention of Cliff Johnson and his wonderful game Fool’s Errand. I remember this game showing up sometime while I was at Carnegie Mellon and we were all hooked on it. Everyone was racing to see who could finish it first. It was pretty insane. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, Fool’s Errand was a puzzle game. There were over 90 puzzles that had to be solved. Some were simple, some drove you crazy till you figured them out. He’s got the original game up for download too (runs on pc and mac (even current macs!)). And the even better news is that he’s got a new game coming out on Halloween called A Fool and his Money. I can’t wait.

Dave posts about Cambridge being cool and I started to think about all the things I love about Cambridge in the spring. I heard people out walking late last night again. I live about 4 blocks from Harvard and this is such a nice little neighborhood. People walk their dogs late at night, go for walks, it’s like things don’t calm down till 11 or 12. When it is really nice I’ll sit out on my doorstep and just watch the people walking, saying hi now and then. At times this can really be a nice friendly place.

I can’t wait till it gets just a tiny bit warmer at night.

e e cummings: “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” [Quotes of the Day]

Naruto rocks. If you are worried about spoilers, run away now.

Naruto and his pals are taking a test to become the next level of ninja. The first part of it is a written test with all these insanely hard questions. Of course, being a ninja test there’s more than one aspect of it. It’s also a test of how well you can cheat without being caught. Because of course a master ninja would never get caught cheating.

One of my favorite, if not my favorite, game companies, Atlas Games, appears to have a blog. Very cool. Too bad there isn’t an RSS feed. Of course now this means I may have to try and hunt down some of my old gaming contacts.

Anyone know who these blogsafe.com guys are? They keep grabbing the index.rdf file from my site. Like way too often, every couple of minutes there are a few requests for it. I tried to see if they have a web site up, but I just get an error that says I don’t have access to http://blogsafe.com/. It almost feels like a good excuse to finally kill off that feed. Since there really isn’t any reason to keep it around.

Some researchers decide to see how well a real dog interacts with a Aibo. Too funny.

Dave points to a nice chart comparing versions of RSS. Pretty nice. It does make me wonder what’s up with the whole RDF (RSS 1.0?) side of things. Shouldn’t people be working on phasing it out? For example, Movable Type still has that as the default feed type. I discontinued mine and just have the RSS 2.0 version now (or at least I think I did).