These are my links for May 10th through June 4th:

• AOJ Outdoors Tip – Eliminate Yellow Jackets With This Non-Toxic Homemade Yellow Jacket Trap! –
• Regrets of the Dying –
• The "How-to" for making an Arduino controlled smoker –
• Zuckerberg goes on a diet: Only meat he eats is what he kills – San Jose Mercury News – They all want to learn how to do it; they want to come in and watch us cut it up, because I think these days people who have the means to kill their own food want to see exactly what they're eating
• China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work –
• Confirmed: Google Wallet NFC payment system launches tomorrow, retail partners in tow –
• Banks launch clearXchange transfer system to rival PayPal –
• The Highly Sensitive Person –
• Roll a D6 – This is a spoof music video of ;Like a G6" by Far East Movement.
• Eternal Earth-Bound Pets –
• Everyday, No Days Off – Gun Blog –
• Linux Commando: How to disable SSH host key checking –
• KnifeKits.com Designer Knife Kits – Knife Making Supplies – Sheath and Holster Making Supplies –
• Grinder – getting started –
• Far Horizon Traders Home Page –

These are my links for March 13th through March 19th:

• debt collection, bankruptcy, personal finance & consumer rights | Caveat Emptor –
• consumerlawyer.mn — aggressive consumer advocacy –
• Y Combinator –
• How to Incorporate a Business –
• Beautiful by Nature – Turks and Caicos Islands – Turks and Caicos Tourist Board –
• FIAT of Austin –
• The Secret World –
• Langley Ranch –
• Japanese Earthquake Implications Quick Q&A –
• Someone is doing something nasty –
• Micromegas –

The story of an adventurer, weary fromt he years, speaking to the barkeep. Not bad at all, this game is going to be big.

So, like all current Eve Online subscribers, I updated and installed the new Trinity patch that was released today. it installed without a hitch and the liquid smooth new client worked swimmingly. Eve looks bette rthan ever , and plays better to boot.

Unbeknownst to me, CCP let a huge bug in their installer go through int heir rush to get out the patch. It didn’t affect me (and honestly if it did, I would have just booted into Linux and fixed it) but it affected quite a few subscribers as evidenced by a lot of shocked threads by people who could no longer boot into windows. Apparently, the patcher changes to you root directory and deletes the boot.ini file. In their wisdom, CCP also has a boot.ini in the Eve folder, which is the one they were intending to delete/replace. See, if they had named it something else, anything else, this wouldn’t have even caused a problem.

Anyways, if you have already run the patcher but have not rebooted, yet, try to right-click on My Computer and go to Properties. Click the Advanced tab and click Settings under the Startup and Recovery section. Click the button saying “Edit”. This will bring up your boot.ini and you can save a backup of it, just in case. But if you already ran the updater, and you didn’t get an error, you’re probably in the clear (as I was).

If you got an error or need to fix your boot.ini:

Open notepad.

copy in:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect

with whatever os you have.

go to “save as” and make sure you change it to all files (otherwise you end up with boot.ini.txt) and save as c:\boot.ini.

go to start->run->cmd

enter “attrib +s +h +a boot.ini” when at the c:\ prompt

to verify, go to start->run->msconfig and there should be a tab for boot.ini

If you can’t boot at all after the patch:

Boot from your OS cd. and follow the directions to start Recovery Console. Choose the corresponding number asked of you for your OS is on, normally its #1 Then type:

Attrib -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini
DEL C:\Boot.ini
BootCfg /Rebuild
Fixboot

Godspeed!

The new version of Eve Online, Trinity, which will basically be a free patch, will improve the graphics engine greatly on the venerable game.

No word on when the “walking in stations” patch is due out, though.

The rights to Interplay’s baby, Fallout, were sold off to Bethesda Softworks in April. As posted before, Bethesda is hard at work on Fallout 3 and will be releasing a teaser trailer in about a week.

Interplay retained one right from their famous game, the right to make an MMO. Here is the SEC filing they have released, looking for more investors in the project:

Interplay Fallout MMOG

This is all coming fast and furious, as it appears three different stories are being exposed at once. To preface: CCP are the developers of the MMORPG called Eve-Online. A year or so ago, some of CCP were caught by players to be cheating by handing out items to an in-game alliance called Band of Brothers (BoB). In an odd display, CCP did not fire the developers involved in the cheating, nor did the in-game corporation receive any reprimand beyond the offending items being deleted (or at least they said they did). They did set up an Internal Affairs group within the company after this event, with a statement that they would oversee and have authority to investigate all matters.

Now there comes to light evidence of more cheating: on-call requests from the BoB corporation straight to the developers to which they have on MSN chat at the ready. There is clear evidence of devs joining BoB rival corporations and making themselves directors. There is evidence of rigging in-game events. And there is evidence of CCP employees being silenced and forced out when they question these happenings.

I’m having a hard time myself trying to glean exactly what is happening, but there are many specifics in this document:

An Open Letter to CCP

The Eve-Online forums have been taken down, possibly because of the sheer volume of outcry and attention, or possibly to prevent more things being posted. I do know that the first few posts about these happenings were almost immediately shut down and deleted.

This doesn’t bode well, more updates as I find them

update: After the Eve-Online forums came back up, there were many threads and posts on this topic that were deleted. The forum mods made one post for responses and it appears to be staying open, albeit with heavy-handed moderation.

What is the World Tour? It’s fancy name for an open beta.

Honestly, this game isn’t all that impressive. The graphics are dated (you can tell that from the screenshots), and it doesn’t have anything that jumps out at me as being original. But hey, it’s free for now, and it’s set in the best fantasy world ever conceived. So I’m playing it!

This shouldn’t be news to any regular MMORPG player. It certainly isn’t for me. I’ve seen this happen since the early days of Ultima Online. Yet, even though we players know that the female avatar we interact with on the screen has a good chance of having a pasty male user controlling it, we still don’t assume as much.

Hell, I know guys that only play as girls in MMORPG’s. The slight-to-infinite increase in monetary gains, combined with the ease of getting into groups makes it a no-brainer. I tried it a few times, but since I like to create characters that reflect my personality as much as possible, I just didn’t feel comfortable with ample hips and swinging bosom (or is that ample bosom and swinging hips? …no matter!). Although, I must admit, the female models in WoW look much better than the male ones.

Mission: find out which local lawyer plays as Oola:

A 36-year-old female attorney from Austin, Texas, is the real-life person behind the sexy and smart female Oola and the bruiser male Smotis in NCsoft’s “City of Heroes” but she said the differences between her avatars and herself didn’t go far beyond physical appearance.

“I was a bit disappointed that I didn’t branch out more. I think it was a lack of originality on my part,” said the lawyer, who asked that her name not be used.

read more on c|net.