Ken Newquist An scare e-mail claiming that gang members are placing a deadly LSD/strychnine combination on public telephones shows no signs of being true. In 1998 a rumor spread around the Net that drug addicts were placing HIV-contaminated needles in phone booths and that people were getting infected with the virus as they dug out their change. … Read more
Forget the killer tomatos, the bananas are the ones you need to look out for. See they’ve already wiped out the monkey population in Costa Rica, and have landed advance troops in major North American cities. Run for your lives! Or not. You see, the “necrotizing fasciitis” infected bananas don’t exist. And now, two years … Read more
They lurk, deep beneath your hair, nesting close to your scalp, waiting patiently to hatch and wreak destruction upon the landscape of your head. No, they’re not head lice. Or fleas. Or ticks. They’re spiders … swarming, nasty, black spiders and they’re going to devour your skull! Or not. The ‘bugs in the hair-do’ urban … Read more
Mutant chickens are running amok in the fast food industry! In an effort to save costs, Kentucky Fried Chicken ditched its full name, switched to KFC and began using genetically engineer quasi chickens that taste like chicken, but are kept alive through dubious means. Unfortunately for chickens everywhere, this is a hoax. I first debunked … Read more
It’s been around on the net for years — AOL and Intel are merging, and they want to give you lots of money for forwarding their e-mail. Actually, they want Microsoft to give you lots of money. No, actually, it’s Microsoft that’s urging the forwarding, and Bill Gates is funding the exercise in personal, exponential … Read more
The Sims is a strangely compelling simulation game that lets players micromanage someone else’s life. It’s made by Maxis, the same folks that created the legendary SimCity games, as well as the less legendary SimEarth, SimAnt and pretty much anything else that begins with “Sim”. Those games were largely macroscopic in scope, giving players control … Read more
Yahoo! Groups gives you the tools to keep your campaign connected online, but its up to the game master to make it work and get people posting to it. Here are a few suggestions on how to do that: Post campaign news to the group: If you have news about your campaign world that can … Read more
It’s a conversation I’ve heard repeated around the net and in gaming stores: gamers are getting old. Oh we’re not quite ready to be put on oxygen with 24-hour nurses, but our demographics are shifting ever-upward. Instead of being 12-year-old geeks who worried about getting their books dumped or what that cute girl down the … Read more
I’m disgusted. Pissed off. Angry. Why? Because of an e-mail I received this week alleging that while American car companies have donated millions of dollars in money and equipment to disaster relief to the victims of the 9/11 attacks, foreign companies have failed to back up their sympathetic words with donations. It’s simply not true … Read more
An e-mail hoax spawned by the aftermath of the horrible events of September 11th alleges that while American companies have given millions of dollars in response to the atrocity, foreign automobile companies have given nothing. It’s an outright lie. Contrary to the e-mail’s claims that only Volkswagen and Hyundai have given money, many (if not … Read more