News You Can Bruise for 2008 September 24

Went to a fancy high-rise restaurant with wine cages. Bottles of wine confined in little cubbyholes in the wall, prominently labelled with the names of high rollers. I don't know what those people did to be turned into wine, but it must have been pretty bad.

I'd forgotten about this cool hack until it showed up in a book I'm reading. MIDI Maze was a sixteen-player game that you networked by daisy-chaining your computers' MIDI ports. In an even more inappropriate use of technology, there was also a version for the Game Boy.

Immediate update: Not even the first time I've written about MIDI Maze.