You must all immediately look at the following things:

Blindsight, a sci-fi novel by Peter Watts that is just so dark and brilliant I can't adequately describe it. One of my top three sci-fi novels ever, dense with terrifying and awesome ideas about information theory, neurology, empathy, compassion, identity, sentience, purpose and everything ( Read more... )

I watched a public prosecutor, robed and bewigged, struggling to get a .wmv file to play from his laptop. When he finally succeeded we were rewarded with a grainy video of a senior sergeant struggled to get a file to play on his laptop. The surveillance society seems to be more Brazil or Scanner Darkly than 1984 ( Read more... )

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So I always hear about right-wing conspiracy theories making the rounds via email, but all I ever get are amusingly captioned pictures ( Read more... )

www.freerice.com

My vocabulary level sits around 45.

I totally need to talk to people about any of the following things:

Dexter, Transhumanism, RPG theory

I mean real people, not internet forum people.

OH MY GOD Mount & Blade 0.890 is love

http://eustonmanifesto.org/?page_id=132

"Standards and values are relative to the culture from which they derive so that any attempt to formulate postulates that grow out of the beliefs or moral codes of one culture must to that extent detract from the applicability of any Declaration of Human Rights to mankind as a whole"
(American Anthropological Association 1947)

Discuss

Orcs, Stan Nicholls
In retrospect, I should have been wary when I saw that the front cover quote was by David Gemmel. While the concept of using the much-maligned Orc as the protagonist was a nice subversion of tiresome fantasy tropes, everything else was boringly typical. A lost opportunity. I'll stick with China Mieville, I think.

The Player Of ( Read more... )