BOSTON (TBG) Last night marked the second and final Barbarian Group Mayoral Debate, this time held in a townhall-style fashion in San Francisco, New York, and Boston. Surprise and dramatics were the order of the night. Previously-withdrawn candidate Anthony Dines made a last-minute return to the race, announcing his re-candidacy moments before the debate began. On a sadder note, incumbent candidate Bruce Winterton dropped his name from the running just minutes before the debate began, as rumors regarding his gender identity and secret past began to swirl about the campaign. The remaining candidates, Nicole Califano and Nick Bonadies, fought off increasing drunkenness and spandex burns to strongly explain their positions and appeal to Barbarians of all walks.

More photos from the Boston office follow the jump.

After the runaway success of the previous gastronomic experiment, Pickledog, it was time for us to step it up a notch. We were ready for a long-awaited challenge: the Taco Dog.

“Taco Dog” is the moniker of our pickup/delivery bike here at the Boston office, and it was high time we created some food in its glorious name. Over an evening at the nearby Feel Good Cave, Doug McDermott and I dreamed up the exact manner of execution and drew up some plans. Read on for the delicious results.

Ladies and gentlemen, a new culinary avenue has been opened to the world, and that gaping void can be found here in the Boston offices of the Barbarian Group. Are you ready to see what our lunchtable hath wrought?

This came my way last week, and kinda blew my mind. On his eponymous site, Don Hodges has looked into some of the most famous programming bugs in early gaming history – the Donkey Kong kill screen, Pac Man’s level 256 split screen, Dig Dug’s instant-death screen, and others. Although the solutions are very technical (we’re talking assembly code here), the level of detail and understanding of the algorithms is what really impressed me.

poor mike p, and his repeatedly-crashing machine. dual monitors means twice as many bsod’s :(

i rolled in to roflcon this morning, still a bit skeptical about the likelihood of the WWW translating to the IRL. but then i saw tron guy. and then i saw the average homeboy himself, getting photographed by several people while being interviewed.

things are looking up!

Hi, I’m Kenji. I do some front-end development around here, and I thought I’d help you get to know your new barbariangroup.com!

It’s been a relief to get this site finally out the door and in front of all you nice internet people. As Rick said (to some perhaps-deserved derision), it took over six months to bring barbariangroup.com version four (internally codenamed Merrimack) to fruition. That’s a crazy long time, sure. But we’re a small, busy shop, and couldn’t blow through this in a month. Not while continuing to pump out high-quality projects for Kashi, CNN, Adobe, TAP Project, Motorola, etc etc. We approached the barbariangroup.com version four redesign as seriously and as carefully as we would any content-rich client site, and as such, it took some time. And some people.