Oh look, Krinn venting. This is an angry post that is unlikely to be read by anyone who it attacks - but it needed writing.

I finally realized why it rankles me when people say “oh all extremists are alike.” The part I already knew was that generally, “oh the extremists on both sides are equally bad,” is
Not Even Wrong (or possibly wronger ( Read more... )

Today I read both Raph Koster's post about what roleplayers look like and an archived discussion about spam on Twitter. The common thread between those is slim, but present. It's this: for those of us who conduct a lot of our lives on the Internet, the bar has risen. It's not just that there exist a lot of tools for broadcasting and managing ( Read more... )

It is traditional to open with a joke - so here you go. The Mother Of All 9/11 Posts. Watch out especially for the white Flavor Flav imitator and the 4chan contributions in the "deliberately offensive" category.

This post, on the other hand, is going to be more in the vein of Jon Schwarz's "Today Is The Anniversary Of An Enormous Opportunity." ( Read more... )

On Sunday I watched The Hurt Locker, and shortly thereafter In The Loop. Now, while these are both good movies and you should watch them, you should not watch them close together because of the peculiar alchemy they have in combination. Independently, I would say that Hurt Locker is about .6 Requiem For A Dreams (standard measure of movie ( Read more... )

Oh wow: my respect for White Wolf just went up. A big chunk of the Yu-Shan book is an allegory for the current state of the US economy, especially regarding the transition from manufacturing and lifetime employment to service and screw-the-employees. Paraphrased, it goes like this: "we used to run the world and everything was fine. People's jobs ( Read more... )

J'accuse circuit_four of reading the post about memes and taking it as a dare: from that fecund brain has marched a great example of the thought-experiment meme. Paraphrased, it goes like this: you have a six-cylinder revolver that shoots comprehension of a work of culture - one per chamber. Each chamber can hold one full-length media item: 1,500 pages of ( Read more... )