Just a few thoughts on the television shows I've been watching the last week, in roughly chronological order.

Heroes The first two episodes of this were mostly great, and the 4 since have been widely varied. I dislike both the cheerleader character (I mean, how many ways can we watch her die?) and the schizophrenia character (since when is that ( Read more... )

This...this can't be real. Can it?

Every day, I seem to find an article with information that brings to mind the scene in The Pianist where the family is reading about the Jewish symbols that must be put onto their clothes, and their expressions of "this can't be serious, can it?"

"Apparently England is ever forgetting that she is at present the greatest Mohammedan empire in the world. Of late years she has systematically neglected Arabism and, indeed, actively discouraged it in examinations for the Indian Civil Service, where it is incomparably more valuable than Greek and Latin. Hence, when suddenly compelled to assume the ( Read more... )

A fairly funny article on the Wii, from the BBC.

Yeah, I'm not happy with the $250 and the $60 controllers, it puts the Wii in the same price range as the 360, but I am still rooting for it the most.

Also reminds me: Gametrailers.com has been doing a Zelda Retrospective. 1 and 3 are very good (never cared about the gameboy ones myself), with 3 ( Read more... )

Andrew's post reminded me of somthing yesterday ( Read more... )

After looking intensively at Graduate Schools after a little, er, problem, I found this randomly:

There is a road in Laramie Wyoming named "Bill Nye Road ( Read more... )

"On Monday, vice-President Dick Cheney said insurgents had increased attacks in Iraq to sway the US mid-term polls."

I'm tired of reading the news and feeling like I'm going to cry.

Tetris

If you've ever enjoyed the game, watch this fascinating documentary about how Tetris came out of Russia and into the hands of Atari and Nintendo (I never realized Tetris was a key to Atari's downfall!). Insane.

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So that guy, who posted the football threats (NOTE: for those who didn't hear about this, probably those outside the country, it was a threat that something like 10 stadiums will be dirty bombed tomorrow, including Seattle), he has/had an LJSomething tells me the people who knew him aren't going to have reactions of the sort - "He's the last person ( Read more... )