I spent much of yesterday afternoon building my new uber-PC, and I tell ya, there's nothing like making your own computer. Sure, you get terribly frustrated trying to find that one jumper on the motherboard you forgot to switch, and sure it's really annoying trying to work all them cables inside your case, but when you're done, and the thing starts up Quake III Arena for the first time...boy is that ever fun. I think I'm done building computers for a while...I've got a desk PC (that's today's model), a game PC, and with all the extra hardware I had left over, I made a server PC, which I'll use to run dedicated servers (under Linux, no less). That ought to keep me happy until Moore's law catches up with my new Pentium III 733 processor.

Link of the Day: Club a Seal. Because some days, this is really, really funny. On every other day it's just stupid.
Bonus Link: Something Awful's Look at PowerPlay, featuring a Q&A with the Gabe Newell Simulation Device. Note: this is a joke, and not meant to be taken seriously.