Anote local government April Fool's 😂. This one from a Councilor At-Large.Bruce is an inside joke - Bruce is a chocolate lab who was running for Dog Mayor Of Salem last year during the Halloween Pup-parade.~~~Accessible text: The Transportation Commission will meet tonight to review a proposal from my office to integrate dynamic, biologically based traffic calming elements at selected high

Another gaming-related April Fools. Again, I am aware of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as a series, but have not started any of the games (I am sure I have them on GOG or Steam...) I love the "I am taking this Photoshop request literally" aspect of this prank ;-)Direct Link in case the embed does not work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWl1itEoJNM

I guess the Salem Police also got into it for April Fools.It does make me wonder...what would a Police Pigeon actually do 🤔Accessible text version:For Immediate ReleaseBe On The LookoutMissing Police PigeonFor the past 10 years, the police department has maintained a flock of twenty-five pigeons in a heated and air-conditioned loft atop the police station.  The hobby flock is trained and looked

I came across this fake trailer for The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical.  I'm familiar with Warhammer (from a 30,000 ft view). I don't know the specifics, but I know it's big.  Even without knowing the specifics, this was pretty funny. I bet folks would pay money to go see this ;-)Direct link, in case the embed does not work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59NORGNnWlQ

Alright, with April Fool's behind us, this week (and maybe part of next week) will be a roundup of posts and fake products that were announced yesterday.  To kick things off, here is a post from the City of Salem, about reincorporating territories that spun off from the original Salem.City of Salem Announces Historic Reincorporation of Original TerritoriesREUNIFIED SALEM, MA — In a stunning

Back in the day, we used to watch Mad Men when it was on TV on a week-by-week basis, but by around Season 5 things were too f*cked up, and there didn't seem to be much redeeming value to the main characters, so we slowly fell off.  This year, being the completionist that I am, I wanted to watch the seasons I had missed out after 2010(?) when we stopped watching. Spoilers obviously, but then again

Time does fly!  This year is the 25th anniversary of Star Trek: Enterprise (or just "Enterprise" as it originally aired?), and Star Trek Online has an anniversary ship bundle to mark the occasion.  I don't particularly care for the aesthetics of the ships of that era, but what caught my eye with this advertisement is the way they did it.  The ad for the new ship bundle feels very much

Well now... after completing the first Cobra Kai game, I thought I'd continue with the sequel, Dojos Rising.  I was doing pretty well with this game, but after a few frustrating weekends, I decided that this was going to be a Did Not Finish kind of game for me.  Pronounced DNF on March 22 😹The game essentially picks up after the first game ends, and somewhere in Season 4 (?) of the series.

Back in the day, when "multimedia PCs" were new, and I had just returned from Greece, I used to spend a lot of time (relatively speaking) on Saturdays at Tower Records on my way to the Public Library. It was truly a multimedia wonderland, with music (in various formats), videos (also in various formats), and different types of video games (mostly of the computer games variety, I don't recall seeing

A bit tired of all the snow...well...I love the snow, but it's more the slushy mess that exists afterward when the weather warms that mind.  I hope that I can bring out summer clothes soon ;-)  Anyway, Yahoo! is at it again, encouraging us to just delete emails and not hoard them. This spring's gamified version of this is the spring cleaning badge.