Something Awful Looks at DragonCon

Tre noticed that Something Awful put up a review of the recent DragonCon. You can find Part 1 of the SA review of DragonCon here and Part 2 here. This is the most Wing Commander related topic they've reported on since posting a picture of LOAF and me in 2001. Until we come up with our own witty look back at the Wing Commander fan gathering, this is an sad, funny and somewhat accurate look at the convention. Last year we didn't finish our DC gallery until late December. We'll definitely beat that this year, I swear.

It's hard to believe these massive highways that President Eisenhower spent years of his life building with his bare hands were now serving as parking lots to fleeing motorists. This mass exodus could mean only one thing: the entire city was evacuating to make way for the invading hordes of greasy, costume-clad nerds making their annual trek out of grandma's basement to spend the weekend on foolish and embarrassing pursuits.

New mIRC Released

One of our most often used and reliable programs, mIRC, has released version 6.1. Apparently there's 166 improvements in this version, but so far all I've seen is a new bar that ticks away the 30 days you have left in your shareware trial period. We'll see in a month if it continues to let me talk in #Wingnut after the bar expires. I'd imagine it would, or everyone could just go back to version 6.03. Though this month I'll actually register, I swear.