Only 232 days until my birthday, so start shopping early.
Might I suggest something from Blade Runner, Dracula, Jaws, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, or Xmen.
Thanks in advance.
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Exhausted, but home. Had a
Exhausted, but home. Had a great time at GenCon, but my plane was delayed due to weather yesterday and I didn't actually roll into my bed until 2:30am (and that after averaging 4 hours of sleep a night from Wed.-Sun.).
So I'm still a little fuzzy.
Stick around, and there will be more blog concerning the trip and me over the next few days.
I did miss you guys.
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The time has come,” the Wal
The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings…”
And of me going away for the weekend to the last of the gaming conventions of the summer. I'm off to GenCon, the largest gaming convention in the world (at it's high point, the convention attracted 58,000 people). I'll return with more wierd pictures and more games for gaming night.
Check out the Keeper of Ancient GenCon Lore for more info on the history of the convention.
See you all next week.
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Excellent stuff from MIT an
Excellent stuff from MIT and Boston College. They are refusing to release names and information about students attending each university to the RIAA in their series of feverish litigation. Both universities are citing the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, and refusing to comply until the charges are filed appropriately in the local federal court.
GO MIT AND BC! This is exactly the response I'd like to see ALL universities taking.
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Are you a Bright?
Interesting new “movement” (I'll use the term lightly until I see it covered in more detail) being pushed by Richard Dawkins (writer and philosopher, The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker…one of the most influential thinkers alive today that gets no attention). Are you a Bright? I am.
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RFID in action…privacy ad
RFID in action…privacy advocates should take note now.
” At the Tesco Cambridge store, reports the magazine, a camera trained on the Gillette blade shelf, and triggered by the tags, captures a photo of each customer who removes a Mach3 pack. Another photo is taken at the checkout and security staff compare the two images to ensure they always have a pair.”
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There's just so much w
There's just so much wrong here that I can't even begin. I'm flying out to Indianapolis on Wednesday, and I'm tempted to print out a copy of the button and try this out. Paranoia triumphs over political speech….
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John Gilmore: I was ejected from a plane for wearing 'Suspected Terrorist' button. From Declan's politech list, a post from EFF co-founder John Gilmore:
My sweetheart Annie and I tried to fly to London today (Friday) on British Airways. We started at SFO, showed our passports and got through all the rigamarole, and were seated on the plane while it taxied out toward takeoff. Suddenly a flight steward, Cabin Service Director Khaleel Miyan, loomed in front of me and demanded that I remove a small 1″ button pinned to my left lapel. I declined, saying that it was a political statement and that he had no right to censor passengers' political speech. The button, which was created by political activist Emi Koyama, says “Suspected Terrorist”. Large images of the button and I appear in the cover story of Reason Magazine this month, and the story is entitled “Suspected Terrorist”. You can see the button [here].
The steward returned with Capt. Peter Hughes. The captain requested, and then demanded, that I remove the button (they called it a “badge”). He said that I would endanger the aircraft and commit a federal crime if I did not take it off. I told him that it was a political statement and declined to remove it. They turned the plane around and brought it back to the gate, delaying 300 passengers on a full flight.
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Ok…for those of you that
Ok…for those of you that were there, the Karaoke Madness probably is still fresh in your memory. For those who don't remember details due to various hydrocarbons still working their way through your livers, take a look. I haven't gotten to the pithy captions yet, so feel free to suggest those as well.
Selected photos from Owen's Karaoke Madness.
Anyone who would like the offending photos removed, you can ask me nicely and I'll think about it.
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Scary, scary news from England….a British Microbiologist who was part of the UN investigatory group is missing and presumed dead….exerpt from story:
“Kelly, 59, became involved in the storm over the intelligence on Iraq's alleged banned weapons when the government said he was the source for a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation that officials hyped, or “sexed up” data in a September 2002 dossier to justify war. “
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Moblogging, photobloging from Comic-Con in San Diego. Some interesting live photoblogging and narrative updates from folks attending the Comic-Con in San Diego this week. I am not there, but wish I was. Here's one, by way of Warren Ellis; here is a collective blog project created by the guys at textamerica (empty now, they just built it yesterday). Both of the above are also offered in a zesty RSS flavor for easy syndication. The San Diego Union-Tribune is blogging now, and there are some Comic-Con related entries on their Sci-fi/comics blog “Disembodied Brains.” Wil Wheaton says he'll be audio blogging from the convention. Got more live-blogging links? Post them here: Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]