Current gems - Editorial

Highlights include:

Ruins For Ruins Sake: Literally, since Antiqua — a land based on a pastiche of Ancient Egypt, Mayincatec and Pirates — is created from Horace Highwater's ideal utopia, which involved archaeology.

Little Miss Badass: Elizabeth, Professor Ruffleburg's geeky, pre-adolescent granddaughter. When she offers her assistance and the hero dismisses her as a little girl, she calmly and explosively demonstrates why the local villagers call her "Fire Eyes".

It's heartbreakingly funny to see what kind of embarassing messages people can have on their clothes if they can't read what it says. Check out these pictures from Asia, where wearing clothing with incomprehensible slogans on it has become a trend. (Caution: Most of these definitely aren't work-safe. If nothing else, the chuckling is likely to get you canned.)

Wired magazine hurls the formative cyberpunk author into a smiling, clinically sterile near-future - present day Singapore.

Fun hemorrhaging facts from Wikipedia. A good excuse to tinker around with some of my text-to-speech programs, and an example of how they can be used for learning and research.