with great power comes great responsibility, Multiverse

Apparently... Multiverse is coming out with a new MMORPG.

This one is called Firefly. Yes, Joss Whedon's Firefly is being adapted to the PC by a company that isn't even a developer. But the company makes tools for creating games, and they'll be hiring a developer to do the work; Multiverse will take a cut of the developer's revenue.

Expect something tangible as early as 2008.

Fans around the world and I will probably be pretty passionate about this game and the developers will have to use bullet-proof cars to do their daily commuting if they mess this one up... ;)

If this is anything like Eve Online with ground characters, I'll play it, and if it's anything like WoW-style playability, I'll spit on it and grind it into dust with my heel, before apologizing profusely for the blasphemy.

higgledy-piggledy is a word ya know

This meteorite, approximately 4.5 billion years old (the age of our Sun and solar system), is not that important.

What IS important is the organic matter inside the meteorite, which is apparently older than the meteorite itself.

From the National Geographic article:
"What's really striking about this is that these globules clearly could not possibly have formed where [the meteorite] itself formed," Messenger said.

"Under those extreme conditions the air that you'd breathe would be solid ice. You would never find those conditions in the asteroid belt or anywhere close to the sun."

. . .

The meteorite likely formed in the outer reaches of the asteroid belt, but the organic material it contains probably had a far more distant origin.

Keep in mind that organic != life. But it's a possibility that could explain the origins of life on Earth. That, of course, or some sort of omnipotent being who looks like a ape and decided to create beings all higgledy-piggledy in His own image, because He's just that self-centered and confused.

"Will We Even Be Able To Play Half Life 2?"

Some people asked me to post a link to this, so here it is:

An entire thread devoted to figuring out whether monitors will be able to handle the latest games.

What more can I say?