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Wisdom of a Muppet
Luke: Is the Dark Side stronger?
Yoda: No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
(Yes we're not acknowledging the violence the prequel trio did to all of the themes and metaphysics of the Star Wars universe.) -
Belated Books
Unseen Academicals - Terry Prachett
Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross
The Truth about Organic Gardening - Jeff Gillman
Carrots Love Tomatoes - Louise Riotte
1635: The Dreeson Incident - Eric Flint, Virginia Demarce
Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
Spook Country - William Gibson
Beginnings, Blunders, and ( Read more... ) -
To Boldly Go...
I would (and, in fact, am) recommend Space Exploration: Serpens Sector to anyone seeking to fill a few random half-hours with seeking out new life, and new civilizations in a randomly generated cluster of stars. It's a lot of fun, and there's interesting little interactions based on your crew and previous actions in all sorts of places, so even if ( Read more... ) -
Unbeatable Arguments
So I was reading the comments on The Ferret's post about manilness and somebody linked to the website The Art of Manliness, and I clicked over because I was curious, and I was ready to make jokes about it, but then I saw the title bar ( Read more... ) -
Stupid, or Evil?
Is the Daily Show seriously the only news show out there with a research team, and video archives? Or even Google?
EDIT: Okay, the embed worked on preview, but not when posted, so here's the link: The Parent Company Trap -
The Facebooks
So, I set up a facebook account a while ago, in part to keep in touch, so to speak, with people I know who'd graduated and such. My opinion so far? It's Twitter and Flickr combined, with a bunch of flash games. But I blocked all the games, especially the annoying ones that spam updates to all your friends, so I could actually see if anything ( Read more... ) -
Squish
So, Black Widow spiders are on the list of things I can squish without feeling terribly guilty.
It's a list mostly limited to parasites and things dangerous to family and pets. -
Two (or more!) mints in one
Okay, so. I am absolutely done with Vista on this thing, when the computer runs a high quality downloaded version of a video slower than streaming the same video from Youtube, I'm done ( Read more... ) -
When in Doubt, Quote
"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow ( Read more... ) -
Okay then.
So I heard this guy was pushing the "America was founded as a Christian Nation!" thing, by trying to say the Founding Fathers were his variety of Christian, but that wasn't what made me facepalm. No, he was trying (of course) to justify it by talking about the Founding Fathers, particularly Thomas Jefferson ( Read more... )