…and I think they’re trying to sell me Sex and/or Cola.

We actually played D&D on Monday! Holy crap, and things. D&D 4e is looming, and I’m more excited than I thought I’d be. I think part of it is just the motivation to buy new books. But, maybe the new edition will be awesome. At the very least, I’m hoping that the flushing away of 3.5e material will, for at least a short period of time, make the system feel more pure and pristine.

I don’t expect WotC to show restraint, however, and expect to be inundated with broken prestige classes and feats within a year’s time. Don’t know how I feel about the messing around with Forgotten Realms, either. Maybe it’ll work out, but part of me feels that they could and should have just left it the way it was. Meh.

A Slashdot article reminded me of one of my favorite technical articles on the Internet entitled “A Tour of the Worm", an in-depth historical and technical look at the Morris worm. The Morris worm, mistakenly unleashed in 1988, was one of the first significant worms to strike the Internet, and it caused enough damage that it arguably has done the most relative damage of any worm since then.

Check it out if you haven’t read it, or even if you have; it’s a fascinating look at the early days of the Internet. http://world.std.com/~franl/worm.html