News You Can Bruise for 2006 May 4

The Frogs, my favorite Greek play, has an ongoing webcomic adaptation that's pretty good. Same comic also has a transparent Pogo-esque satire using Winnie-the-Pooh characters. From Sumana.

More webcomics: Keyword Cartoons is in some sense the counterpart to Spamusement: high-grossing (but not engrossing) AdSense keywords turned into cartoons. The... character... of the main character fits this concept exactly.

On the back of an old pay stub from 1996 I found some FTP sites I'd visited in the last days of the BBS. ftp.uu.net amd ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au are still around; ftp.digex.net and macbeth.cogsci.edu.ac.uk are gone. What do these random hostnames have in common? Well, three of them are mentioned in the Roguelike Games FAQ. Looks like I wanted Larn and the PC port of Rogue.

More miscellany coming soon; I typed up my mother's annotations to her copy of the James Beard Cookbook. I'll put that on a separate page instead of in NYCB.