Links posted on September 30, 2004
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Well I finally got my frogpad one handed keyboard today after waiting a month and a half... which is also about as long as its taken me to write this sentance. check it out sometime (mine's a lefty so I can mouse at the same time).
Machinima fans may be interested that the people behind Red vs. Blue are producing a new series based on The Sims 2.
Has anybody ever heard about this place? Apparently, the people who caused the mutiny on the ship HMS Bounty (chronicled, appropriately enough, in Mutiny on the Bounty) all settled on Pitcairn Island in 1790. Fast forward to today, and there are still only 17 families living there, all descendents of the original mutineers. They speak their own language, a mix of Tahitian and 18th century English. Apparently, they have their own sort of laws and customs that put one in a mind of pirate ethics, if recent charges of rape and sexual contact with 12 year old girls are correct. I had no idea that there were still places in this world so remote that you have to take a 36 hour boat ride from the nearest airport (itself in outlying Tahiti). Stories like this make me realize that the world is fucking big. It must be trippy to live your life in a tropical paradise and only really contact 46 other people (if you don't count occasional cruise ships).
Greatest News Story Image Evar. I'd like to think that an intern on his/her first day got assigned the task to produce a graphic for this story and the deadline was looming.