I haven't gotten to check out the newly-released Rocket Arena 3, but I can't wait, as it's one of my all-time favorite mods. Christian "Disruptor" Antkow updated his .plan with kudos for the add-on from another old-school RA fan (I remember playing some great matches with him on the id server on RA for Quake 1), but I'm not surprised, as I have a lot of faith in crt's abilities... see you in the arenas!

Link of the Day: US Patent 5,501,650 (March 26, 1996) for an "Automated Masturbatory Device." Thanks Tane Piper (who incorrectly thought, as I did, that its inclusion in the IBM database meant IBM owned the patent-thanks Robert Ellsner and Jason Spinosa for the correction).
Story of the Day: California Man Dies in Huge Vat of Wine. Thanks theAntiELVIS. A sad story, to be sure, but so, so reminiscent of a favorite W.C. Fields line: Woman: "Someday you'll drown in a vat of whiskey!" Fields: "Drown in a vat of whiskey... death, where is thy sting?"