From Tycho on Penny Arcade today: “Halo has those little grunts, and I guess I’m supposed to feel like a bad-ass when I destroy them but I actually just feel like an asshole. [They seem like they] just fell in with the wrong crowd. What they need ...
I finally finished Neal Stephenson’s The System of the World last night. Lucky for me, Elize just gave me my Christmas present today, a signed copy of Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullabye. Cool.
This was the CNN QuickPoll thing the night of Thursday, 2 December 2004. And the only thing I can even think to say is “what the fuck!?” This is utterly bizarre, and far below what I’d expect of CNN. The only thing I can even think of is that wha...
I just found a heinously strange link through Sahil Malik: http://www.dba-oracle.com/dress_code.htm. This details, in disturbingly exact standards, the dress code for his database consultants. Let’s walk through a couple examples here: Tie - Mu...
iRooster 2.1 is coming, and it’s going to be really friggin’ cool. I wasn’t intending to make my next release a big deal (it was just going to be 2.0.4), but I was seized by a strong desire to implement a feature…which lead itself to another featu...
Halo 2 is fucking awesome. There’s really no other way I can describe it than that. I only have a few gripes: The ending. I have to wait another 3 years or so to find out what happens after this. Damn it. Matchmaking seems to take forever. H...
Hundreds of tons of high explosives are stolen in Iraq after Hussein’s dictatorship collapses. Whose responsibility is it that this happened? According to Scott McClellan, spokesman for the White House, it is a problem that belongs to the interim ...
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt
This is from James Wolcott by way of the always incredible William Gibson (yes, that one): “The savage Iraq insurgency, a tragedy for the Iraqi people and the Americans and other foreigners who have been victims there, has unwound the future in wa...