Year: 2000

The Halo SETI Marinesare still some 500 units behind the TidBITS team and 1000 units ahead of team Seti Italia in the Battle of the Teams. Team membership stands at 463 marines but only a third are actively crunching which explains our slow progress. Put your computer’s idle time to good use join the Halo…

Freewill’s Bungie Sightings is temporarily down. The Fanfest forum is still up though. Expect an update… soon(tm). Pax.

Battleground: Halo returns with a redesigned look. White and blue is in and they’ve started a new fanfiction series titled “Retaliation”by Patrick “Defcon” Palmer. Pax.

More pics from MacWorld… this time from the FanFest. Swing by and take a look!

Mojo announces that Halam is dead, long live Bungie Jumping. Bungie Jumping is a new site, devoted entirely to Bungie-related comics. We say: add this to your roster of daily-checked sites! Pax.

Heh. Nailed again. sarwat points out some of the replies to the original Slashdot post about the SETI accelerator board… specifically this one and this one. No confirmation yet… but it sure LOOKS like a hoax.

Another wallpaper from Private Meowman… still no halo. Where’s that halo?

Pallor has written an article for The Corporation about the reaction of Bungie fans when the MS news hit. It’s not particularly flattering to Macintosh gamers. It’s spawned a couple of monster threads at Rampancy.net (here and here), and one smaller one on our own forum… lots of meat to chew on here. Do we…

Wow, talk about hardcore… Benjamin Ellison points out this page (originally seen on slashdot), devoted to selling a PCI card with one use: to speed up your SETI@home processing. For $129, you get a board with 6 processors on it, each having been designed to help the terrain following radar in PR-964 Cruise Missiles. There…

SiliconDream is on a roll. After coming up with explanations for some of the odder signs shown at E3 (elucidated here), he’s done some more homework, and has postulated theories about the location of the Halo system. pretty good postulation, even. Worth a read.

Thanks, sort of, to David Oosha, who pointed out on our forum that Inside Mac Games has put up a video clip of Alex Seropian discussing the impetus behind the MacWorld announcement to continue support for a Mac version of Halo. 4 megs… definitely worth a listen. David… we apologize this sat for three whole…

There we were, minding our own business, and this funny video clip fell on us from out of a tree. (It’s also here and (very temporarily) here.) Apologies for any dents you find… those would be from our heads. Please send mail if you have trouble downloading this film… we’ll look for other places to…

Seen on Rampancy.net… Cannibal Harry has clipped out a couple of the more entertaining events from the Bungie Fanfest last Friday, and put them up on his site. You can find them here.

The Halo SETI Marines continue to crunch through the night skies, looking for evidence of Covenant intrusion. They’re now within 500 units of the TidBITS team in the Club Standings. A big welcome to Mikeintosh (too bad the SETI servers have fixed the “old points come to the new team” bug!), and a big welcome…

Craig Mullins, who got his start in the BungieVerse with his Marathon art, has continued to create astounding artwork for Bungie. He started to do some Halo art… but apparently, it wasn’t in the right direction. He’s sent us an early drawing… not the Halo that we have today, but we love it anyway! (It’s…

There are a couple of new Halo sites on the horizon… and one new one online now. Halo-world.com is opening this Friday, although the link works now. HaloZone, a hosted site of ClanZone (which has moved), is “coming soon”. And Halo.ch (“The Legend of Halo”) is a new German site. The Halo community has been…

Okay, I’m back, at least. (Still waiting on those other three slackers.) There’s a ton of stuff that still needs to be put together from MacWorld… but in the meantime, I can at least clear out the inbox and pass along some interesting info. First item: a new desktop pic from Joel Loukus, aka Private…

Battleground: Halo gearing up for a makeover?Maybe PlanetHalo is finally going live? In any case, check ’em out… the number, as deduced by DogCow goes Moof on our forum, is the Julian Date equivalent of July 29. Another week to wait…

Once again… we’re without a net connection for posting. never fear, though… There’s an enormous amount of info from the fanfest that we have to share with you. Most of us should be back at home in the next couple of days… in the meantime, we apologize for the lack of updates!

Hmm. During the setup for the Bungie Fanfest yesterday, we ran across some signs left over from the E3 booth. Some had strange names… we speculated on them between ourselves, but couldn’t come up with any answers. SiliconDream, however, must have done his homework after E3… because you can find lots and lots of info…