I can't be more pleased with the response to the new Quake III Arena Bus Tour message board, my hat is off to furn, our resident boy genius™, for his usual yeoman effort at hand-coding the board from scratch. His code shows its usual lean meanness, the CPU load barely budged when the boards came on line (a feat perhaps only other website operators can really appreciate). Stay tuned for more on what features are planned for the future which will lead to the launch of other boards. I also want to thank the ever-amazing Walter |2| Costinak for the terrific logo for the messageboard, and I think that Anna from id deserves special thanks from all for the effort she's putting into answering so many posts on the board.

There will probably be a gap this afternoon with no updates, loony and I have a chance to check out some new stuff with Electronic Arts. Since they are visiting our fair metropolis, we'll probably both make the trip to see what they've got for us to see, though I'm feeling a bit ill (hence the slightly late start this evening/morning), so I may beg off. P.S. More anniversary schtuff: Cheers to Clan Steel Maelstrom on their third anniversary, and still going strong.

Link of the Day: The Onion, where a front-page story reads "Quake Claims 500 Hours" Thanks Mongrel and Amergin. It's a sad tale: "Rescue workers are still searching frantically for any signs of unwasted time in the wreckage of high-school student Jeremy Fanshaw's life, following a devastating Quake game that claimed an estimated 500 hours of his time." Damn do I love the Onion. Have you seen their paperback book? Highly recommended.
Bonus Link: BALLOON-BORNE INSTRUMENT COLLECTS ANTIMATTER. That's right, more real science straight out of Star Trek. Thanks cannelbrae.