A couple of weeks back Project Byzantium was contacted by Jeffrey Young, a journalist with the Chronicle of Higher Education working the online beat. He'd heard about the project and wanted to interview the developers; after some discussion on the mailing list he and I set up a time and spoke on the phone for an hour or so. A couple of days ago the article went live on their website, and I must say that I'm very pleased with how well it turned out. All I can speak to are my bits, but the location aside (we meet at …

DCist, a newsblog covering happenings in the DC metroplex covered the HacDC Spaceblimp project.

The Sunday edition of the Washington Post ran a surprisingly good article on HacDC that you'll want to check out if you've never heard of hacker spaces before, or if you're not sure that you want to get involved with one.

MTV has posted their spot on steampunk to their website - you can watch it here.

There is also a written article by MTV here and some of the photographs they took are up here.

Due to the fact that Rending the Veil hasn't finished restoring older articles from backup since the last server migration, I'm reposting my last article they published on harvesting the energy spent by spammers in trying to get us to buy their crap.

Spam. Junk e-mail. Things you can't say in mixed company.

No matter what you may call it, we're talking about the same thing: E-mail that you didn't ask for and don't want filling up your inbox, sometimes making it impossible to find real e-mail. It's a nuisance that netizens have been fighting for years. In terms of …