A couple random games I’m looking forward to:
Killer 7 – Gamecube – July 6 2005
Indigo Prophecy – Xbox – September 6 2005
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The always inimitable Audrey of Seattlest fame just mentioned that Philip K. Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. It’s about time, in my opinion. Dick’s storytelling has done more to shape modern science fiction than just about anyone else. You can feel the strains of Gibson’s Neuromancer embedded deeply within Blade Runner, which was based upon PK Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
In opposition to my typical feelings on this subject, I’ve always been far more partial to Blade Runner than its source material, but A Scanner Darkly has always touched me more deeply than words can easily express. It’s also being turned into a movie that hopefully not even Keanu Reeves can ruin. Only time will tell, though. It certainly looks beautiful, eerie, and terribly depressing, which is all I can really ask for in a film adaptation from any of Philip K. Dick’s books. I’ve been meaning to watch Blade Runner again for a while now, and I think I’m going to have to sometime this week now.
And, as far as guns/walkie-talkies go, it could always be worse…
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I made a donation just now to the ACLU. Although I have always supported them in spirit, I decided now was a perfect opportunity to support them financially. I make more than enough money to support causes dedicated to–among other causes–Gay and Lesbian rights.
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Gizmodo: Sometimes I ask him to rub my feet. Sometimes I ask him to explain himself very slowly, then close the AIM window and do it all over again while I fry up some bacon.
(it’s far more innocuous than it sounds 
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I just found my new favorite weblog, The Darth Side – Memoirs of a Monster: …You try to be an effective manager, you weed out the bad apples like the late Admiral Ozzel — only to find that an insidious culture of incompetence has somehow transformed your deadly pan-galactic armada into a fleet of spaceballs.
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Ruy Texiera has an interesting analysis of El Presidente’s first hundred days in his second term: The President’s miscalculation that a 2.5 percent margin of victory in the popular vote constitutes a mandate for trashing the New Deal’s most popular program was a blunder that even has conservatives starting to use “quagmire” in describing Bush’s predicament.
There’s been a flurry of blogging over the past few days about how the White House has completely botched their hatchet job on social security. We’ll see how it plays out.
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Ah, the good kids at MIT are at it again. There’s going to be a time travelers’ conference on May 7th. Specifically, it will be at:
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT
(08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
The guy who brainstormed this is asking for snack/drink funding through Paypal, and as much publicity for the event as can be mustered. I find this whole thing amusing in a sad sort of way, although there is something appealing about the whole affair.
To be pedantic about it, though, assuming that no time travelers actually show up (my money’s on NO), it’s impossible to say that it is hard proof time travel is physically impossible.
Anyway, to see more on this, check out the official Time Traveler Convention website.
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