greed morals family duty societal duty national duty international duty common laws of moral decency irrespective of religious or civic obligations and beliefs one person can make a difference skating a thin edge ( Read more... )

( it just struck me in the course of a conversation that the movie 'Highlander' had a lot of gay subtexts- how come I didn't notice any of this before?)

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( another and much longer excerpt from the same interview with Grant Morrison...too good to pass up....even if you are not familiar with Mr.Morrison, this is a fascinating and painful piece to read...engrossing and interesting ( Read more... )

H.Keith Henson: A meme survives in the world because people pass it on to other people, either vertically to the next generation, or horizontally to our fellows. This process is analogous to the way willow genes cause willow trees to spread them, or perhaps closer to the way cold viruses make us sneeze and spread them ( Read more... )

my mind has been hopping since reading Warren Ellis's Global Frequency trade the other day; usually don't have this much mental feedback with his stuff; that's more Grant Morrison territory with his hyper-sigilism ( every time I read the Invisibles, it infects me for at least a week afterwards) and deliberate memetic imprinting ( Read more... )

Hah! It's Tuesday. Well, fuck me. Where did Monday go so fast? It doesnt seem like yesterday that it was Sunday and the looming specter of Monday sat at the end of the bar laughing and cackling into its foul version of a seabreeze that used tomato juice instead of Grapefruit, looking over and sneering, giggling to itself ( Read more... )

Johnny liked people to call him Stomp. He liked the association with a multiple times loser from 1950's/1960's mobland L.A.. Big Johnny Stompanato, a wop with a shiny coat and a shinier knife; stomp was notorious for his connections with Cohen's rackets but when it came to the crunch, he'd piss his pants every time it came to a confrontation . He ( Read more... )

( ala Warren Ellis...a writing exercise wherein you just take a vague idea and write it stream-of-consciousness style without stopping ( Read more... )

DO you care if other people like you? I mean, do you get offended? Do you actualyl give a shit if some nobody assmonkey with a bad attitude gives you the cold shoulder? It's an interesting question in terms of modern society. Why do some people constantly seek approval? And especially, why do they seek approval from strangers or work colleagues ( Read more... )

For any confusion over this issue- my theory is saying that in a few games generations ( within the next three to five years), we will have a sufficiently advanced Games AI Engine to generate proper God Sims environments. As regards what constitutes a 'proper' GS environment, I would propose that this would have to involve ( Read more... )