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| SMX West 2008: Stephan Spencer The President of Netconcepts, Stephan Spencer, sat down with Mike McDonald of WebProNews at SMX West in Santa Clara. Spencer explains the PageRank sculpting concept. He does point out that it is an advanced SEO practice, and it is important to understand it before jumping into it. More Videos | Recent Software | | GoNaomi GoNaomi.com is a computer dictionary, which currently consists of about 30 different dictionaries. | | RSTools Automatically add code to your existing Visual Basic source code.. | | WinCue The WinCue application was designed to be a playlist manager and MiniDisc recording tool for Winamp. | | | | | Gary Gygax Departs For Ethereal Plane By David A. Utter Gygax co-created Dungeons & Dragons, a roleplaying game that likely occupied some time for the geeks you know today. We bid farewell to him.
News of the passing of Gygax, 69, first emerged on the Internet the other day, in news posted on the Troll Lord Games forum. The Dungeon Master had died, and plenty of gamers experienced a moment of reflection; the forum now has 35 pages of posts in response.
Tributes to him at Wizards of the Coast, current owners of Dungeons & Dragons, and on Dork Tower, Order of the Stick, and Penny Arcade quickly followed. Over its 30 years, the game, and Gygax, influenced plenty of people, myself included.
I met him at a long-ago GenCon in the 80s, after his departure from TSR and subsequent work on a new game system. This was only a few years after I started playing the game in study hall in 8th grade, as the only other person in the class who was willing to give it a try. Click to Read More | | | | |
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