February, 17, 2002 archives

somebody at eidos is a damn genius. they are buying the rights to odd japanese video games from sony and will sell them in the us market. no sign of vib ribbon being released state-side, though.

on to chart two.

record labels on napster: “they're ripping off the artists!” record labels on their own online services: “quit whining about how we're not paying you!” crooks.

i watched from the earth to the moon again over the weekend. twelve hours of mind-blowing stuff. meanwhile, we're spending less on manned spaceflight than figuring out how to shoot missiles out of the air. (in a time when there are substantially fewer missiles actually pointed at us.)