contracted windojined shawn marked the jones shooter?

Didn't think things could get more hectic, but they did. But I'm hanging in there, and actually clearing some room on my schedule, since I just (after a few months of pre-production) signed my first book deal, yay. The book is non-fiction, unannounced and early in construction, so expect to see more info about it towards the summer months, but if you see where I've been given a weblog, it may give you a hint as to who I'm working with. I'm absolutely delighted.

Otherwise, Slashdot/Slashdot Games be going well, work at the Internet Archive be going well, and.. hey, is it time to talk about inconsequential stuff yet? I reckon so.

So firstly, go check out the trailer for Shaun Of The Dead (SWF format, doh!), the new comedy zombie movie from Simon Pegg and friends of UK TV show Spaced fame. Spaced showed for all of 3 seconds on US TV (Bravo showed it once in 2002!), but as any English readers know, it's rather on the genius side, and the movie is looking similarly pukka.

Oh, and I hadn't heard of Windojin before until finding these examples - nothing actually rude linked, but the author explains: 'In Japan there’s this growing movement of Microsoft dojin heroines. Almost all of it is hentai though: things like Windows XP going down on Windows Professional until she crashes from virtual memory loss.' My memory is getting corrupted just thinking about it.

Finally, silly downloadable Windows game du jour would be shmup avoidfest Crazygame.exe - beat 18.2 seconds and you'll be.. well, not very skilled, but more skilled than me. Welcome resurrection du jour would be the Mark VII hiphop-C64 EP, originally released on Monotonik's evil cousin sublabel No'Mo', but removed altogether when it was feared Chris Huelsbeck would call the feds on us - this thread references the specific mashups. And TV show du jour is Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, a BBC production showing on The History Channel in the US, and making me reminisce about why I actually did a history degree in the first place - so ex-Pythons could teach me more than I ever learnt as an undergraduate, and with more crossdressing?