News You Can Bruise for 2003 January 22

In Kuala Lumpur, a whale.

Does everyone name their first SimCity Funkytown? I have a suspicion that this is true. What if you run that city into the ground, creating a hell on Earth that subverts God's divine plan? When you wipe that town, do you name the new one New Funkytown? I'm just wondering how common this is.

That's exactly what I did in first FreeCiv game with Dan, way back when.

I don't think there's a summary (of a television show, movie, performance of a play, novel, etc.) that couldn't be improved by tacking this onto the end:

It reaches a climax with a space battle high above the Atlantic, as Irish nationalists and Martian dissidents duke it out with laser pistols.