click the link below to read my ramblings written while trapped in concourse C of O'Hare airport yesterday. I booted my laptop and typed till I got bored. It's strange.

When I put out my call for Geek Christmas Gift ideas, I had no idea what I was in for. But after the storm of email that followed was washed away, I was left with a list of toys that any geek would be excited to give or get this year for whatever holiday it is you celebrate this time of year. Hit the link below and read the list if you're curious.

As is my habit, whenever I go outside, I tend to go see movies. And when I see movies, I tend to post reviews here. So I saw A Bug's Life last night. If you wanna know what I thought about it, hit the link and read my ramblings.

David Braben of Frontier, the co-author of Elite, the author of Elite 2 and Zarch (later renamed Virus on the Atari and Amiga), wants to know whether people would buy a Linux port of his new game V2000. Given that Elite and Zarch were great games (with the emphasis on Games), I expect V2000 to be good fun. Link courtesy of freshmeat.

Dan wrote to tell us of this interview with Jonathan Clark of crack.com. It reveals that Red Hat funded some of Golgotha's development with money in advance (as did AMD, Telestar and others). It's an interesting read, as it shows the difficulties game developers face in keeping up with new technology and making a fun game.

slim writes "Someone's written an OpenGL version of Mame for Linux/MESA. See Details and screenshots . Fun things that can be done include mapping Pac Man onto a rotating plane, mapping the game onto a 3D cabinet, bilinear filtering the game, and of course vectors rendered and antialiased in hardware. " Very cool, and very demented.

Jennifer M. Woodard has written in a summary of her recent trek to the Videotopia Exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. The exhibit featured tons of video game history, ranging from coin operated pong to the N64. Click below to read the report.

Cyrrin is at SIGGRAPH 98, and is going to try to send us some updates from the trenches. Hit the link below to read his first report...

Craig Maloney has written up a great review of Java Game Programming for Dummies availible through Amazon.com. If you are interested in a book that is useful for both beginners or want to know more, click below.

Rob Huffstedtler sent me an editorial piece on Linux and its future in the gaming market. It features comments from Crack.com's Dave Taylor, so everyon must definately hit the link below and read it.