The hack only showed itself to the googlebot, so it looked ok to all humans. To the google spider, however, it looked like a pharmacy. The only immediate effect of this that I can tell is that our title in the listings on google was changed.

If you hurry up you might still catch it live on google. I don't know what the hackers would stand to gain from this. Can anyone enlighten me as to the purpose of this?

This is a heat pattern from "Mima", one of the moons orbiting Saturn, you can read more about it here . The reason for this post is not to share space gossip with you though. I was responsible for a nasty scare a few days back. My victim, Profilar Per, has requested various pastries and lazy Monday afternoon diversion as redemption:

• A poem
• Make a mess - clean it up - an inspirational Mac story
• Spy Party

Have a great day and remember to vote for Gore

Joel

A friend of mine have bought a snowmobile traction mat kit for his motocross, along with a ski for replacing the front wheel with. Thus making the motocross able to go in very deep snow like a snowmobile. The kit is called The Explorer.

Check out some pictures where we take it for a spin on a motocross track:

We should make a game out of this :)

Now we have fixed this with a brand new install of Simple Machines Forum, and we are pimping it all over the place. Please help us get some discussions going, since it needs interesting conversations to pull people in and it needs people to provide interesting conversations. Catch 22 in all its glory.

So, without further ado: Brand New Mad Skills Motocross Forums

Some call it the grandfather of all realtime strategy games, while some call it "the best game of all time". In short it's a 4 player game about economics where players builds factories to produce goods and sell for high prices to other players. The winner is the player who makes the largest profit.

Simple huh? No. If you haven't read the manual or seen the (soon to come) instruction video you won't have a chance to understand this game. It's probably the genre furthest away from Mad Skills Motocross.

About a year ago Blue Systems contacted us with the idea of a remake, and since then we've been working on it. Now it feels great to finally release it. The development has been a bumpy ride where we've tried lots of different play styles and graphics. What we settled on is what you can find here: www.planetmule.com .

As I'm writing this Planet M.U.L.E. has over 2600 registered users and the number has been growing steadily since the release. With all the good feedback from the fans we're now working on getting an update out to improve the game.

Me and Christian of SpeedRunGames made a deal: I review his game, he reviews mine.

Now, don't think I am going to go easy on him just because we have a deal, that would make it all pointless and ruin everyone's day. So let's get on with the review of Grappling Hook.

In one sentence: It's like Portal, but with a grapple gun instead of a portal gun.

Now that's not bad, Portal is in my mind one of the best games ever made. Enough with the portals, this is about grappling.

You get a grappling gun, and with that you can pull yourself towards green surfaces with blinding speed from far away. If you release the trigger while traveling in this manner, your momentum will keep you going. Kind of like a human rail gun, first a large pulling force and then no force at all. Not even friction.

During the level, you collect access codes. When all access codes are collected, the level can be won by entering the portal at the end of it.

Around this mechanic Christian has constructed levels of varying cleverness, where some are ingenious and some are just frustrating. Don't fret though, just do the frustrating ones and you'll have fun again in the next level.

Good points:

• Innovative puzzler
• High velocities
• Frequent save points

Bad points:

• The graphics (programmer art)
• Too much jumping on platforms (more puzzling, less timing please)
• Limited green surfaces (I'd wish you could lash onto anything, except red surfaces, and then design levels around that)

Anyway, the good points are pretty strong so go try the free demo now: Grappling Hook Demo

As you can see, not many voted. So, for the next time you know that your vote really makes a difference.

So, time for me to dig down and start working on those ip-numbers, packets, NATs, latencies, TCP, UDP and what have you. I'm pretty good at this stuff and I think I'll enjoy most of it. The boring part will, as always, be the GUI code.

Please, help us. Multiplayer or different difficulty levels? Sharing tracks, or scoreboards? Cast your vote now.

Thanks for helping us making Mad Skills Motocross even better.

I don't know what I was expecting really, but the skills of the competitors blew me away. They crushed my best time by almost 10 seconds, and I bloody made the game. Check out the five best races in the video below:

Results:

1. Lövet (33.29)
2. Avgrundsvrål (37.73)
3. Troppi (38.14)
4. RoadHazard (38.38)
5. Narcissus (39.36)

Congratulations to the winners.

PS. I think a combination of RoadHazard's first few seconds and the rest Lövets race would be able to push below 30 seconds :)