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# ahahahaha i've found a new way of horsing people the interwebs!
this online game that take place across the whole internet has a feature that allows you to set up blind links (on the agreement that they're not NSFW)

mwahahaha
(, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 23:36, archived)
# Uhm, o hai riverghost
;)

blind links?
(, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 23:38, archived)
# a link where the person can't see where they're being taken. the idea is to show people websites who think are cool :)
(, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 23:42, archived)
# damn you!
i've got that bloody penny arcade song stuck in my head now!
(, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 23:46, archived)
# Ah, okay

Sounds fun
(, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 23:49, archived)
# SWORDFISH PASSWORD!
"Sub-zero", no?
(, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 23:51, archived)
# hmmm? I was looking for the origin of the joke about the swordfish password
turns out its from a early mark brothers movie
(, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 0:02, archived)
# I learned this too, after posting.
I only knew of the terrible film with Travolta and Hugh Jackson. I can't find any references to his hacker name being subzero, though, which I think is from a sci-fi novel (Neuromancer?)
(, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 0:11, archived)
# i think it might be, but my knowledge of gibson novels other than 'the difference engine' is shameful
(, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 0:34, archived)
# hmmm. not sure which is better. I like steampunk, but neuromancer is a classic.
the diamond age is a good mix of the two (not gibson, but stephenson, to be sure).
(, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 0:41, archived)
# Count Zero
I think...
(, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 2:37, archived)
# I suppose Horse Feathers (1932) is relatively early
 
but it is one of their best.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0023027/

M-A-R-X
(, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 1:35, archived)
# WOAH PENNY ARCADE!
That's new.
(, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 0:27, archived)