Still playing Torment . . . a lot. I am really fascinated by the game's storyline as well as the philosophies of all the different factions in the game. Normally, you can only belong to one faction at a time - this is mostly political as differences in philosophy amount to not being able to see the forest among the trees. Being sincerely devoted ( Read more... )

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. . .
--Eugene McCarthy

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
- Lenin

Westley: All right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right... and who is dead ( Read more... )

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
- Max Beerbohm

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Kurt Vonnegut

A worthy cause . . . write your representatives now. Stop H.R. 4861. I pretty much agree with EFF's analysis here.

While you're there, check out the information on the SONY-BMG settlement.

While were on the subject, did you know you can rip DVDs to an IPOD?

Be an informed Patriot.

In other news, an interesting dance.

This dance on the ( Read more... )

Tron is on the Sci Fi channel.

Crom: "If I don't have a user, who wrote me" . . . LOL!

( Piss off the Master Control Program )

Finished Huxley's Brave New World recently . . . an interesting, if somewhat atypical concept of a dystopian world (this link gives a pretty good overall synopsis of the novel as a whole).

It's not quite the dystopian world we've come to associate with the likes of 1984, though it certainly has common elements with Equilibirium and THX 1138

Compare ( Read more... )

I'm not really in the mood to post philosophically tonight, so I'm going to play catch up with items of interest. . . . many of these are at least a month old.

The machine keeps getting faster. It may not be long at all now . . .

The perks of being elected to congress.

Quantum cult? Lots of parallels with consensual reality. A game of ( Read more... )