J. Robinson Wheeler put together this gallery of images inspired by all of the IF comp games of 2003 (including my entry, Scavenger). Excellent work! The best thing is how many of the picture reflect the tone of their matching game. I've played 13 so far, so I've only been able to match about half of the pics at this point.

http://www.moorelies.com/

A new email virus going around, this one even worse than "SoBig" because it masks itself as a Microsoft update, and gullible morons, believing anything that even looks official, readily double-click the attachment and spread the love. It's trying to spread to me at a rate of about 300+ emails a day, each of them around 150KB in size. Thanks, all you idiots out there.

I'm in a retro state right now, going back and playing old favorites or old games which I've heard favorable things about. It started with Dungeon Master on my ST emulator, then Outlaws and Jedi Knight 2. I've just installed Descent: Freespace, and I've built a new 98 partition for playing some of the older games which need real DOS to run. I never realized that Freespace was more of a space sim in the style of Wing Commander than anything like the original Descent.