I was looking for a release date for Half-Life 2: Episode Two on Valve’s official Orange Box site, and noticed some odd text to the left of the navigation bar. I’ve counter-rotated it below:

PC-DVD FORMAT [symbol] [numbers] [symbol] A VALVE MULTI-PACK OFFERING LEFT TO OPEN, TURN FORWARD DISTRIBUTED IN THE U.S.A. WWW.VALVESOFTWARE.COM

I’d be interested to see what the numbers [...]

On the Official Google Blog, Thomas Gayno, Associate Product Marketing Manager of Google France, posted about the Rugby World Cup.

Normally this wouldn’t be of any interest to me, but I did notice that he linked to this essay about the differences between American Football and Rugby. Actually, he only linked to a summary of the [...]

I am now working at the CogWorks Laboratory research facility in the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer.

The CogWorks Laboratory conducts basic and applied research to study the complex interplay of cognition, perception, and action in routine interactive behavior. To further our understanding of integrated cognitive systems we combine methods from experimental [...]

I honestly wasn’t expecting anyone to stumble upon the site while it was in disarray, but within a few hours of switching over I had received an e-mail asking where a page had gone. Fear not, things will be in working before long. I’ll post a follow up in short order.