Originally posted by Jane Harrigan of the Open Salon blog ( Read more... )

I've given up on trying to convince people not to panic over the nuclear situation in Japan. At this point I'm half-tempted to just tell everyone they're going to die, and then offer to sell them potassium iodine tablets at exhorbidant mark-ups ( Read more... )

It's funny, but one thing I always liked about kendo is how much of the bullshit surrounding "fighting with swords" can be boiled down to a minimal set of rules, governed by mathematical trade-offs.

And how once you realize that, almost everything you intuitively know about such a thing is mostly backwards to what the actual strategy should be.

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Haven't been writing here much lately, and I have to admit there's a few reasons ( Read more... )

Why is that people arguing for the "traditional definition" of marriage argue so strongly against the "traditional definition" of when life begins ( Read more... )

We're doing serious damage to our kids by teaching them the abject fantasy that other people's opinions don't matter. Success in life is actually primarily driven by other people's opinions, whether that's from customers, voters, your manager, friends, whatever. You will get nowhere in life if you think you're completely awesome but everyone else ( Read more... )

One of the quickest ways to identify someone you should never listen to ever again is if they float the option of a constitutional amendment to remedy whichever political transgression currently occupies the bulk of their ire ( Read more... )

Final Fantasy 14 has gone belly-up, with the firing of most of the senior management and the departure of a good chunk of the development team. It's now free-to-play indefinitely, with the PS3 release delayed to an unknown date ( Read more... )

"Baba Yetu," the title theme from Civilization IV, is the first video game song in history to be nominated for a Grammy Award.

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Saw it performed twice in person, once by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and another by the San Diego Symphony. It's always been one of my favorites, so this development pleases me greatly ( Read more... )

Proposition 8 was heard by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today ( Read more... )