How Walmart Is Destroying America And The World: And What You Can Do About It available for pre-purchase at Walmart.com (via Metafilter)

Update: Walmart has removed the item from their inventory…

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe coming to the big screen in December 2005! Awesome!

A glimpse through the Wardrobe (25meg Quicktime file) at WETA Digital’s amazing work on The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Seems another one of my childhood favorites is being brought to life by those Kiwi wizards. The minotaurs look simply amazing!

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What sort of programmer are you? Best internet quiz I have ever seen.

I’ve been reading Masters of Doom by David Kushner. It’s the true story of how John Carmack and John Romero created Doom and the rise of Id software. It explains where Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake got their roots. Awesome book.

This book got me thinking about all the games that I played years ago on my screaming 386. Great classics like, Quest for Glory, Space Quest, Police Quest, King’s Quest, and many others. Amazingly enough, you can download these classic games and more at abandonia.com.

Want to know more about customizing Firefox? Check out WindowsSecrets.com article on the Secrets of Firefox 1.0. I highly recommend applying the following tweaks:

• Fix a memory leak in Firefox 1.0
• Speeding up the maximizing of Firefox
• Speeding up Firefox on Windows XP

TweakFactor.com gives optimal settings for fast vs. slow computers and fast vs. slow internet connections in their Firefox Tweak Guide.