Drawing a cross in the dirt

[tongodeon]

So there's this thing about how McCain stole his story about a Vietnamese prison guard drawing in the dirt from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. And it seems that the charge is at least partly if not fully BS. It's not necessary for McCain to have stolen the story from Solzhenitsyn because Solzhenitsyn isn't the person who invented the concept of drawing

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[fizzbang]

Totally unrelated, but I'm curious about your thoughts on Emily and the Uncanny Valley. Personally, I think Image Metrics has done an amazing job, and I'd like to know just how much the animated face can vary from the original source's face. But you know more than I do about high-end animation systems, so I'd like to hear your thoughts in a future post.

[loic]

I think he ripped if off from the Battlestar Galactica Episode I watched last night when the guard asks President Roslin to pray with him while she's imprisoned in Kobol's Last Stand: Part 2.

Does this make me part of the "the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd"?

There's a shirt if you want to advertise the fact

[spiritualmonkey]

[matrygg]

I wonder if that's a ham-fisted attempt at anti-intellectualism. A swipe at the nerds from the ol' jock, if you will.

[matrygg]

Ok, granted -- a particularly ham-fisted on, then.

and the muscle twitch value is...

[drieuxster]

... I mean seriously, yes, it is a lot of intellectualizing to get from a ham-hand to a ham-fist when being gratuitoulsy anti-intellectual.... but that moves the kvetching forward how???

[haineux]

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/19/proobama-dd-tee.html

Now you can get a tee shirt that simultaneously proves you're a blogger geek and a politics geek and therefore desperately need to be http://music.metafilter.com/2380/Punch-Em-In-The-Dick-NSFW-lyrics

[haineux]

....present company excepted, of course!!

[catbear]

Dad's basement has the pool table, pinball machines and porn. No time for D&D.

[qp4]

Word. It also has a bar, a hot tub, and dad's stripper friends.

[mskala]

I hear "parents' basement" much more often, but I imagine the reason "dad's basement" isn't more common is similar to why "momma's boy" is an insult.