The Keymaster and the Gatekeeper will be meeting face to face at a conference in May for an unscripted chat. Thus begins the rule of Gozer. Actually, it should be pretty interesting — maybe they’ll settle that whole teachers’ unions issue once and for all.

In other news, the people at Inkling magazine — possibly being even more …

This post will strain my primitive HTML skills to the very breaking point.

1. This is the new universal symbol of radiation, generated by the best creative minds at the International Atomic Energy Agency and the International Organization for Standardization. So it’s very, very international. Note the strangely happy, toothless skull …

I’m a late convert to PvP, which has been online since, god, like 1998 or something. I’ve always been a big Penny Arcade fan, and Tycho made fun of PvP in his newsposts, and I just never got around to reading it. Then I realized that they’re all pals, and Tycho was just taking the piss, and that PvP is actually funny.

PvP is set at a …

I can’t help but think that the whole RFID tag phenomenon is just going to get weirder. You know, those miniature data tags that are getting stuck in everything. Hit ‘em with a radio signal and they ping you back with a tiny scrap of info. Companies like Wal-Mart stick them in products to help with supply chain management. They’re in …

I’m not doing one. I’m not feeling it. I’ll leave it to someone else to make fun of Google’s L-less Valentine’s Day logo. (Googe responds to the controversy here.)

Note that with a little Firefox-related cleverness you can permanently endow Google with an Achewood logo. I don’t know, there’s a little too much cat-tongue in it for …

Bookslut points me to this — to all appearances — justifiably savage review of Spider-man: Reign #3. The Reign mini-series is set 35 years in the future, with a middle-aged Spidey — yaar, spoilers — mourning the death of his beloved Mary Jane. (There’s a 10-page preview from the first issue here.) What killed Mary Jane? Cancer. From? …

Somebody hooked up a big industrial arm to a Wiimote, then gave it a sword.

Then they strapped a guy on it.

Meanwhile, these robots spin records. Not shown: the robots’ emo phase, when they put on turtlenecks and cried.

I don’t know if anybody but me followed this story arc in Doonesbury, or indeed whether anybody besides me under the age of 50 reads Doonesbury anymore. Anyway, Trudeau seems to be paying more attention lately to Mike’s nerdy daughter Alex, who goes to MIT. Granted, the whole Battlebots-esque scenario is about 9 years out of date. Man, …

There was a time when I felt that I wasn’t nerd enough to read The Order of the Stick. It’s a webcomic about a party of adventurers in a fantasy role playing game. There are a lot of in jokes about 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons. I mean, I barely made it to 2nd Edition.

But it’s actually funny anyway. The characters are profiled here, …