It is being widely reported that Saddam Hussein has been executed at 6:10AM Iraqi time. While we all knew this was inevitable, the speed and eagerness with which this has been carried out has left me with a bit of a sick feeling. After some reasoning, I've personally come to the conclusion that I'll support the existence of the death penalty for ( Read more... )

I think some of you might be interested in reading about nuclear energy viability here and here. The second is a wiki by Australian physics students and profs to get an updated version of the "truth" or whatever that may mean in this day and age.

Oil Safari

Interesting, but long.

Peak oil (like peak mammoth) will be here one day, probably within our working lifetimes -- 2044 by the USGS. Is this going to drag the world into a recession like it's never seen or is this going to be another Y2K?

Way too much additional discussion at The Oil Drum

The people over at Pew (no, not the blind pirate) did a poll on global warming. No surprise, but Americans are not very concerned about it, and they're also split about how you'd think along party lines. Democrats about as concerned as some Europeans, Republicans as concerned as Oil Companies, maybe less, and Independents are somewhere in ( Read more... )

We need more of these.

No, I'm not kidding.

Additional: Discussion of OTEC.

I hear there is a demand for a Transhuman Space game ( Read more... )

There's something to be said of Quentin Tarantino's selection in music. Always appropriate, always ecclectic, and always a treat. The extras on the Kill Bill discs are going to be ones that I will go back to simply for the music videos they contained of the 5, 6, 7, 8's and Chingon. It's good music. But KB2, while losing the comic-book violence ( Read more... )

I am constantly impressed by the comments everyone drops about my Star Wars game... It's just a story and I try to make it an interesting one, but it depends just as heavily on the players. There have been campaigns I have run where the characters just weren't interesting and neither was the campaign. And as all characters are reflections of ( Read more... )

A few things to consider spreading around:

Cheney may be indicted for bribery.

CBS refuses to play an ad for a Democratic group during the Super Bowl

The second Gulf War was fought on false pretexts
(Well, Duh!)

Don't let Bush win. A monkey would be better....

to make a Jedi pause.

And think.

Perhaps I just love pushing the Star Wars morality buttons, arguing about the shades of grey or the point where the Dark Side should not forever dominate your destiny if you don't let it. If you haven't seen it, try looking at thisAway I must go, thoughts on fright ( Read more... )