“The Bad Lieutenant” is an interesting article about video game violence by Clive Thompson: Consider our gaming history […] anti-gaming critics didn’t really explode with indignation until Grand Theft Auto 3 came along — the first massively popular modern game where the tables turned, and you finally played as a cop-killing thug. […] Why weren’t […]
Via Boing Boing: Cartoon Aliens re-enact Tom Cruise anti-psychiatry rant What I find particularly interesting here is how much Cruise’s knowledge of the subject rather unfortunately parodizes his position. Wait, allow me to rephrase: His passion for the subject matter combined with his confusion over specific terms parodizes his position. Tom: “Psychology” and “psychiatry” are […]
Forget thieves and blackhats out there pilfering your SSNs, credit card numbers, and all that. Put your fear in the very same institutions that legitimately ask for, need, and SSL your info. A couple years ago I’d had a problem with a particular bank. We’d signed up through MS Money to auto-sync the account details. […]
Via Boing Boing: the tale of Howard Dully, a California man who makes his living as a bus driver who had a transorbital lobotomy at age 12 in 1966. He describes how he’s always felt like he’s been missing something. And maybe he has. Kind of a gut-wrenching tale. And makes you think about what […]
A nice round-up of the WSIS news/happenings over at Sampo.
Classical/flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert is down with the Creative Commons. He uses the Creative Commons Sampling Plus license to make large amounts of his music available to the public for remixing. A and I have a couple of his CDs. He’s a great guitarist and worth a listen. And worth the remix apparently, too.
This makes me so happy. Via Wired News: Monsignor Gianfranco Basti, director of … Science, Theology and Ontological Quest, reaffirmed John Paul’s 1996 statement that evolution was “more than just a hypothesis.” “A hypothesis asks whether something is true or false,” he said. “(Evolution) is more than a hypothesis because there is proof.”
Creative Commons bit on a new record label called Unlocked Groove that’s apparently releasing vinyl under a CC license. Bad ass!
Via Boing^2: currently playing: A:xus “When I Fall In Love (Stryker’s Acid dub)”
Neat new fiction on Futurismic: “Changing The Tune“ Neat article on Kuro5hin: “Which is the Better Classroom?” – – re: the home-school debate Fun National Geographic News article: “The World in a Glass: Six Drinks That Changed History“ currently playing: white noise in my skull