Archive for November, 2009
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Mass Effect: Great Game Cheap and New to You
Posted on November 17, 2009 | No CommentsYou can sprint straight through the core missions if you like, but I suggest you ignore them, at least for a while. Mass Effect is a Star Wars quality universe. If you get hung up on the plot you’ll miss a lot of it. -
Open Source Sixth Sense
Posted on November 16, 2009 | No CommentsThis is so far over my head I can't really even comment. It's also so cool I had to share it with you. -
An Escape: The Prisoner
Posted on November 16, 2009 | No CommentsYou don’t really need an excuse to watch Ian McKellan as a twinkle-eyed villain, do you? -
Hook Up with a Poet Tonight
Posted on November 15, 2009 | No CommentsKeats is dead. So is Shelley. Byron, Milton, Dickinson, Eliot… even Shakespeare; they’re all dead. Nearly everyone your Lit teachers tortured you with in high school have joined the Robin Williams Society. -
This Just In: The Half-Naked City
Posted on November 13, 2009 | No CommentsThe preferred method of media coverage was a whipped up controversy over semi-nudity and morality that often included man-on-the-street interviews with passers-by, featuring parents with their children when possible, in front of the offending objet d'adverte. -
Now at a Middle School Near You: Cash for Grades
Posted on November 12, 2009 | 2 CommentsFor twenty dollars, students can buy twenty test points, to be used ten points at a time, on any two tests. This scheme, suggested by the parent advisory council and endorsed by the principal, is intended to replace last year’s failed chocolate fund-raiser. -
Fallout 3 Downloadable Content for (sigh) PS3
Posted on November 12, 2009 | 2 CommentsThe environment is filthy, creepy, massive, and overpopulated with evil, mutated in-breeders and ignoble savages designed to put up a fight before you turn them into a fine red mist. -
The Evolution of Ideas
Posted on November 11, 2009 | No CommentsWhen an idea becomes sacred, it forces a resistance to innovation. New ideas are shunned. Flexibility and adaptation are abandoned. Change is not merely discouraged, it is abhorred, and those who would bring change are often ridiculed, sometimes persecuted and occasionally executed for their beliefs. -
Welcome to The Constant Inconstant
Posted on November 10, 2009 | No CommentsIn its original context “the constant inconstant” refers to, among other things, the moon. Here, I mean it to represent my many and ever-changing interests and perspective. More importantly, the name gives me freedom.