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Simple ideas are never as simple as they seem.
You tend to forget that things like this had to start somewhere, with an idea, and someone had to come up with it in the first place.
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Taking the Internet.
There is a piece of legislation before the U.S. Senate today that I think has at least a little relevance to what we all do here -- by which I do not mean Livejournal in particular, but on the Internet as a whole. I should like to share the documents in question with you, but as they are of considerable length I will provide links and put behind ( Read more... ) -
J.R.R. Tolkien: a prescient statement on, among other things, video game violence
"Fantasy can, of course, be carried to excess. It can be ill done. It can be put to evil uses. It may even delude the minds out of which it came. But of what human thing in this fallen world is that not true? Men have conceived not only of elves, but they have imagined gods, and worshipped them, even worshipped those most deformed by their authors ( Read more... ) -
Microsoft WTF moment
I'm browsing their website to see if my WMP components are up to date (they are), and I run across this page.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/devices/default.aspx
Are they unaware that there's a more famous use of the phrase "cool
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