Why? Why not?

I just discovered ScummVM. This is an emulator that lets you play Lucasarts adventure games that used the SCUMM engine (such as Sam & Max) on a modern machine. Yay!

I’ve got Sam & Max and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis installed again, and I can play them again!

For those of you who don’t understand why this is a good thing, here’s some dialogue from the start of Sam & Max (Oh, and Sam is a walking talking dog in a suit, and Max is a homicidal rabbit):

Sam: Where should I dispose of this bomb where it won’t hurt anyone we know or care about, Max?

Max: Out the window, Sam.

Ahhh, revisiting the classics.

Great story from MetaFilter. (Hosted on Salon.com)

Nothing like seeing a story about technical stuff that’s obviously been written by someone who understands the terms intimately.