Ralf says: Heinz-Jürgen Ehrig, a German Science Fiction fan, has collected about 130.000 Science Fiction books, magazines, fanzines, etc. Since his death in 2003, his widow, the SciFi author Marianne Sydow has spend gazillions of hours cataloguing his collection and is now publishing the bibliographical data on a monthly basis in a paperback + CD outfit for a small fee. Unfortunately she finds it hard to get any subscribers, which is a shame really. It would be a shame if this project dies. More here - I think I'm the only one who brought this more or less to the attention of the "outside Germany" world. Villa Galactica needs your help Part 1 Villa Galactica needs your help Part 2...

Dutch studio Ronimo Games has announced Swords & Soldiers, a side-view RTS title bound for the Nintendo Wii's WiiWare downloadable gaming platform. Alongside the announcement were a trio of screenshots showing off the game's look and feel.

Remember the story about the pit bull cloner who is suspected by many of being the same woman who kidnapped a Mormon missionary 30 years ago to be her sex slave? Well, she is now suspected of plotting a burglary in Tennessee to procure funds for an artificial horse leg. Joyce Bernann McKinney, a former beauty queen who earlier this year paid £25,000 to have her dead pet recreated, is accused of instructing a 15-year-old boy to break into a house because she needed funds to help another beloved animal, her three-legged horse. ... The Tennessee charges stem from McKinney's arrest in November 2004 after being found in a van with the teenager. According to prosecutors in Carter County, an area in north eastern Tennessee, she instructed the boy to burgle a house and was charged with criminal conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Dog cloner Joyce McKinney sought over burglary to fund horse's wooden leg (Thanks, Teresa!)...

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The latest batch of media from Firaxis Games' standalone expansion Civilization IV: Colonization (PC) have just dropped in, courtesy of publisher 2K Games. Civilization IV: Colonization, which does not require any previous Civilization IV installations to play, is aimed for release next month.

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Anyone ever had their html editor start pushing in word wraps at a really strange spot? Even when it is turned off? For the general news posting stuff around here with just hrefs and li stuff I use frontpage since hitting ctrl-k is easier than typing out the html. But sadly now any html editing program (installed a couple) I open seems convinced to wrap the text in the source like I have an 800x600 screen. Turning on and off word wrap and playing with my screen resolution along with reinstalling applications and everything else no workie. Makes me sad. I blame Vista.

An overwhelmingly positive week. How annoying. PC Platform Perception Computers used more often for gaming than any other platform. If only the users had some gaming money left after their WoW subscription.