From Fark…a dark and secret look inside the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Those of you reading this that are not gamers….view this and fear us. Those of you that are gamers….welcome, and rejoice!
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You know…I never really t
You know…I never really thought I'd ever say these words, but…well…here you go.
Ted Koppel is THE MAN!!
From Lisa Rein's Radar, an entry about the PATRIOT Act piece from Nightline on Sept 4th. Probably the most insightful piece that I've seen a major media outlet do on PATRIOT. Lisa also vid-captured it, and posted it on her space as a Quicktime file…I'm mirroring her capture of the entire piece until I'm told to take it down. (warning, BIG quicktime…~50 megs).
Here's the transcript of his closing remarks…take it away, Ted:
“The men who drafted our constitution, who framed our civil rights and protected our various freedoms under the law would, I suspect, retch at some of the bone headed, self-serving, misinterpretations of their intentions that they so often use these days to undermine the very freedoms they pretend to safeguard. The miracle of American Law is not that it protects popular speech, or the privacy of the powerful, or the homes of the privileged, but rather, that the least among us, those with the fewest defenses thoses suspected of the worst crimes — the most despised in our midst, are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
That remains as revolutionary a concept now as it was in the 1780s. It makes protecting the country against terrorism excruciatingly difficult, but we cannot arbitrarily suspend the rights of one catagory of suspects without endangering all the others.”
*applause*
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In honor of the upcoming pu
In honor of the upcoming publication of Neil Gaiman's first Sandman work in several years (Endless Nights), a quote about librarians:
“Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained.Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?”
Neil Gaiman The Sandman. Line spoken by Lucien, Librarian of the Dreaming.
For those of you who have been unlucky enough to have missed this amazing series completely, the Library of the Dreaming figures prominently in several stories (to be fair, Gaiman did largely steal the library from Jorge Luis Borges, but most of his best ideas are stolen…he weaves them in ways others envy, though.)
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In North Carolina political
In North Carolina political news:
Edwards in blogland. Senator Edwards has launched a blog. Built on Slash, with ratings, and a special icon to signal staff postings, the site has local (well, state) blogs linked to the national blog as well. [Lessig Blog]
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“The Future is here, it jus
“The Future is here, it just isn't evenly distributed yet.”
–William Gibson
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For those of you who haven&
For those of you who haven't been introduced into the bizarre world of the Cthulu mythos, Kuro5hin comes to the rescue with a brief introduction. Great pulp horror, wierd and Victorian and completely different than other types of horror that most people are familiar with. Much more psychological, with characters that literally lose their mind when they see things that the human mind can't understand or accept.
In the interest of full disclosure, this IS coming from someone who bought his wife a stuffed Elder God.
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Has anyone see my
Has anyone see my face?
I believe that I had it rocked off last night.
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Busy, busy weekend. First o
Busy, busy weekend. First off was a birthday lunch at PF Changs for Karen that ended up in the mall for many more hours than is probably healthy. Saturday was a failed bicycle riding attempt with Jean and Justin (maybe next weekend?) and today = Counting Crows/John Mayer concert at Alltel in Raleigh. Then…more school.
I've decided that I really like school…I just don't want to do the damn work right now.
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Baseball pics are up!
Baseball pics are up!
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Thanks to all the feedback
Thanks to all the feedback from yesterdays post, it looks like I will be switching over to Jones' Virtual Communities class.
This has a lot to do with the fact that I'm just not really having fun in Ethics. It seems like a good class, and would be good….it just seems like a big review to me, having done much of this sort of thing previously. Virtual Communities seems like it would be more fun, and quite frankly as an elective, I'd rather have fun.