“No! My beloved peasant village!”
A huge list of console RPG cliches. Most notable for the ‘old but still prescient’ rule 189:
The Moral Of The Story (Ghaleon Rule): Every problem in the universe can be solved by finding the right long-haired pretty-boy and beating the crap out of him.
A vi reference mug. Even managing to out-nerd ThinkGeek
Morse code beats SMS. The Jay Leno show featured a text-off between a Morse code operator and two SMSers, with Morse code coming out on top. There’s an apparent corollary from an Australian museum here but, notably, none the SMS users involved were small Asian women, so they’re missing a major datapoint.
A guide to the Singularity in wiki form, set up by Charlie Stross.