December 2010
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Online, Anonymity Breeds Contempt - NYTimes.com →
There’s some Plato in here!
November 2010
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FFotD Vol 1 link 3
So yeah, a short naruto fic today. Not quite crack I’d say.
“Accounting no Jutsu” is the name, and more details will be added once I get my laptop back online (it isn’t working now…). But this is a good read. It take the absurd luck that Naruto could be said to have an runs with the idea. This trope shows up elsewhere in the fandom too. Worth your time.
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gladtobegaming asked: Hey, thanks for the reblog! My first one. I appriciate it.
Greetings from Amsterdam
Greetings from Amsterdam
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Sooo, today we have a special! FFotD Vol 1 Link 2
Ok, so yeah. This “of the day” thing? Not happening. (EDIT: They’re on different days here for me, so ha!) I have so many that I like, that this might happen more than I’d like. Anyway… on to what we have here then, why not.
Over here we have “Only Right” (I’m sending you to chapter two, as chapter 1 is a large author’s note...
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Glad to be Gaming: Am I Error? →
gladtobegaming:
It sticked, and it still does. As I saw my friends around me abandon their high score craving, time-and-money-eating gamemachines which they are- I am still as enjoyed and intrigued by the medium as I was 20 years ago.
In a world where we are used to screens, buttons and digital…
Poignant.
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Fanfiction of the Day! Vol 1 Link 1 or something
So yeah, in much the same vein as my Remix of the Day links from before, I’ll be running a brief set of some of my favorite fanfictions. Be warned though, some are very, very, very, very, very, ver~ ok, fine. They’re quite long, longer than the source material in some cases (where physically possible). But yeah, these are some of the better fanfiction I’ve come across while...
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BBC News - Viewpoint: How urban-rural divide sways... →
This is something that I’ve been coming to realize does indeed dominate US politics. But the BBC lays it out clearly:
The talk about “red states” versus “blue states” boils down to the fact that, as a general rule, states whose cities can out-vote their hinterlands are blue, and those whose hinterlands can out-vote their biggest cities are red.
For better and for...
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BBC News - Location, location and how the West was... →
A BBC article on one of my professor’s latest book, on the influence of geography on the world geo-political stage. You should read Ian Morris’ book too.
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BBC News - Celebrations as Burma's Aung San Suu... →
This is good news. It’s still a good idea to keep watching skeptically, but it is a good sign.
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Forum Type Pictures →
Just a random collection of pictures. Numbers are subject to increase at a whim.
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Rapper Never Yet Contested Goes “Retro” | GeekDad... →
This is more than good. You should check it out if you can.
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Fifteen Authors of Influence
So I grabbed the idea for this from a post from a friend on facebook. So I got to thinking, who are some of the authors that have influenced me*? Now, this isn’t a definitive listing, but I did try and come up with the authors that I read a lot of as a kid, or who have stood out to me looking back on things.
Jack L Chalker - The Spirits of Flux and Anchor series and really got me interested and...
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Multiplayer Artemis Simulates Life on Spaceship... →
This looks AWESOME! I need to find a couple people and give this a whirl! Maybe over thanksgiving/winter break…
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Coyote Tracks: Geek Luddites →
chipotle:
There’s been a predictable to-do in the tech world about the forthcoming “Mac App Store,” with which Apple aims to make buying, installing, and even launching applications on the Mac work the way it does on the iPhone and iPad. Draconian Control! Steve Jobs is Big Brother! Apple’s future is a Teva…
Well said.
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A Video Game That Dares To Make Americans Angry →
If this preview is correct, then I hope the game does very well. Kudos to the developers to take this risk and humanize the FPS.
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Imran Nazar: GameBoy Emulation in JavaScript →
This is cool if you’re into javascript.
BBC News - Greece suspends foreign air mail... →
I’m glad we caught the ones sent our way, even if it was from a different group. Mail bombings are bad.
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Physics Envy in Development (even worse than in... →
Just interesting comments about uncertainty in development circles.
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Specter of Censored Fairy Tales, Rap Music Raised... →
An important read if you value free speech, and are invested in video games. CA’s arguments here are really seeming to lack substance, but that could just be me.
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The Dawn Chapel - The Derp Cycle →
DERP.
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The greatest science-fiction story ever written :... →
It is the greatest story ever written. Go collapse the wave function.
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Thoughts on Index/Railgun 1
So I have a couple of random thoughts on the To aru Majutsu no Index and To aru Kagaku no Railgun universe.
Magic in this universe was developed as a response to the innate abilities that the show places in Academy City, a haven for science and rationality. This strikes me as amusing since magic is usually considered (in fantasy) as the innate power, and science and its related powers are...
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