Archive for the 'Other News' Category

Big Dog “drone” from Boston Dynamics: Submachine Gun Not Included

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Good news, the Doberman is on its way to us. Tell your rigger to put one on the wishlist.
There’s not much in the way of potential applications or future plans given on the site (link below the vid), but we’re sure you’ll come up with some of your own.
Watch the Big Dog do its […]

Domestic Terror Group ‘ELF’ Suspected in Washington Fires

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

WOODINVILLE, Wash. —  Four large homes are burning at a “Street of Dreams” model home development north of Woodinville, and the Snohomish County District Seven Chief Rick Eastman told KING-TV that a sign saying ELF was left at the scene.
ELF or Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for other arsons, including one at the University of […]

Trolls on Mars?

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Could it be? Are there Martians? Is it a rock? What’s next… A troll skeleton?
British newspapers went crazy Wednesday morning about an image from Mars that appears to show a humanoid figure descending a shallow hillside.
Fox News

NAN Rising?

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

It appears the Native American Nations may be starting to form, starting with the Sioux Nation.
A delegation of Lakota leaders has delivered a message to the State Department, and said they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the US, some of them more than 150 years old.
Lakota country […]

Wow

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

I had no idea, but Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, had lost his voice early last year. Well, he regained it 3 days ago when he discovered that he could talk in rhyme! I mean it! Anybody want a peanut?
As regular readers of my blog know, I lost my voice about 18 […]

Earthdawn Fans May Enjoy This One

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Nine buildings have been excavated at Stonehenge!
Nine Neolithic-era buildings have been excavated in the Stonehenge world heritage site, according to a report in the journal British Archaeology.
The buildings all had plaster floors and timber frames, and most had a central hearth. Two, including a house possibly inhabited by a community chief or priest, were enclosed […]

Surgery in Zero-G

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

A team of 5 doctors performed a cyst removal operation on a man in an Airbus 300 airplane Wednesday. The conditions under which they operated where ‘near zero-gravity’.
The surgery went “exactly as we had expected,” Martin told reporters near Merignac airport, outside Bordeaux. “All the data we collected allow us to think that operating […]

MMORPG ‘Second Life’ Hacked

Monday, September 11th, 2006

It was recently reported that Second Life’s website was hacked into and that it’s user database was stolen. The breach in security was discovered last Wednesday, September 6th, 2006. You can read more here.

For all you RL riggers out there…

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Ok, so it’s been a slow couple of weeks for news. But, this is really cool for any real-life rigger - even if it’s not ‘directly’ Shadowrun related:
A new kind of combustion engine - getting more power by doing less work
Scuderi began by splitting the heart of the internal combustion engine — the chamber […]

GenCon - Final Thoughts

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Well, another GenCon Indy is over. There seemed to be a nasty cold going around this year (which I caught) - here’s hoping that not too many of you were effected by it.
I know that the FanPro guys really appreciated the effort put forth by the people who volunteered to GM the events again […]