Sadly, they fixed the bug that let you hide it in 5.1.1.

No dice both literally and figuratively, as it were.

Also cool: if you have enough PCs to cool (i.e., if you have a data center or some such setup), you can use the heat they generate and heat your building with it. You essentially watercool everything, and then treat the data center as a system's boiler, and use the warmed water to heat as you normally would (radiant…

For some reason I couldn't get into the first game. Is it an acquired taste, or should I go back and give it another shot? What're some tips for getting the most out of the experience?

Is it just me, or is the first-person narration of the article a little bit creepy?

Ramsay Bolton is not impressed.

Shit, you're right. My mistake.

There's also all of the stuff that happens with Jamie in book 3 at Riverrun, breaking the siege and all that...but we're a LONG way away from that.

Is there any good iPad calendar app that lets me color code my calendar like Week Cal (or Outlook) does? WeekCal HD would be ideal, obviously, but that doesn't exist; everything else only lets me color code events by putting them in entirely separate calendars, and quite honestly that's a ridiculous waste of time and…

Wait, why are there two different pieces for the rooks? That looks like it'd be confusing.

TECHNICALLY, it wasn't the D20 system; it was the less-adaptable 2nd edition rules. Not to be that guy, but I think he's probably right in terms of 2nd edition, maybe less so in terms of D20.

Or Snow.

I carry an iPhone, iPod touch (it's bigger than the iPhone and has music, podcasts, games, e-books, etc. on it), iPad, and netbook to work. Of those, however, I only actually use the iPhone and iPod at work. At some point in the near future I'm hoping to consolidate the two devices so that I can just carry one at a…

I think he only used Ice when he was doing executions because of how unwieldy it was...but, yeah, if I had a bigass Valyrian steel sword, I'd keep it handy.

Oh, I agree, I wasn't saying that you were advocating never knowing what's going on. Just that, if you have no idea, pretending you do is the best way to go in most situations.

I'd agree, it's the most serviceable alternative to actually knowing what you're doing.

Those metal plates are actually supposed to distribute heat more evenly; you heat the metal plate, and then the metal plate distributes out to the grate. YMMV on how effective they are, but that's the general idea.

Morocco is perfect for Dorne, I hadn't seen that; maybe some of that storyline is being accelerated a bit? Astapor may stay in Croatia to maintain a similar visual style for Dany's storyline.

Spoilers and stuff:

Since it's only supposed to be the first half of Song of Swords, it's probably the only place they have to go; you won't even get to Mereen until Season 4. Although I do wonder how they'll handle the Feast for Crows/Dance with Dragons dual timelines; they can't realistically put Tyrion, Daenerys, and Jon Snow on the…