Flyover Country

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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