A couple of things I didn't know

In the UK, a game was invented that involved kicking a ball around with your feet. It was called 'football'.

In the US, a game was invented that had a ball that was a foot long. It was also called 'football'.


Edit: I stand corrected

The "World Series" isn't. It's actually "The World" Series. "The World" being a newspaper.

http://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp

Extreme Cooking.

I had this idea for a cookery program. I reckon it'd be brilliant:

"Extreme Cooking".

The idea being, that it's basically cooking stuff in interesting and spectacular ways.

The idea inspiring from an ice cream recipe that involves liquid nitrogen and basically stirring in the two.

Ideas though:
Cooking a meal around a volcano. E.g. frying eggs on rocks, boiling stuff in steam vents.

Car cookery - use the 'parts' of a car to prepare and present a meal. Particularly stuff like how long to run the engine to 'warm through' things, and which parts to get 'hot, boiling and warm'.

'flambe' style cookery, e.g. setting stuff on fire lots and preparing meals as a result.

Just plain camp cookery perhaps?

And maybe a few other things. I don't know, I reckon it'd work. Anyone else got some ideas for 'extreme cookery'?

EVE: Fanfest

Well, I'm back from Iceland. Got in nice and late, 23:00 or so on Sunday. It was great fun. Reykjavik nightlife is quite impressive, even if the weather was 'less than clement'.

Large amounts of hardcore EVE geekery at fanfest, which I'll filter :).

The real 'news piece' for those that haven't heard yet, is that CCP Games (makes of EVE) are merging with White Wolf. Yes, the same White Wolf that does Vampire, Werewolf, Exalted etc.

Basically they did a Collectable card game quite recently, and realised that there was potential. EVE itself is actually quite conducive to roleplaying (you're playing a character who's controlling a ship and doing stuff, by controlling a ship and doing stuff). However it also has quite an impressive array of 'backplot': http://www.eve-online.com/background/ if you're interested. Or http://www.eve-online.com/races/saccade/ for the latest 'short story'.

The initial plans involve CCP working towards a World of Darkness MMO, and White Wolf looking at an EVE RPG. (Although they haven't really started on either yet).

http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=424943

Is the announcement on the EVE-O forums, with links to the other sites.