More substance and nastiness
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Sen. John Kerry is sharpening his criticism of President Bush&#39;s handling of the war in Iraq -- and not a moment too soon. Many Democrats were growing anxious about the Bush team&#39;s effectiveness in defining
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Chewing gum, homosexuality, public protests... the list of things frowned upon is long in Singapore. But satire? Yes, that too. Seriously.
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Desperate to propel a plot when chemistry doesn&#39;t work, this sequel puts its heroine through the wringer. Female viewers may feel similarly abused.
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It's a crime so monstrous as to surpass comprehension. Yet its passion takes root in some of the most tender ground of human experience: pregnancy and motherhood.
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Tycho:  With PAX coming up this weekend (!!!), we didn't really have time on Friday to invest in Virgil's Wikiscanner - that mystical oracle that takes a raw IP range and then excretes a list of that organization's Wikipedia edits.  This is the pulsing, possibly Martian device that dished up last week's awesome Electronic Arts edits.    I wasn't sure if we should feel sorry for them or not - now that EA is situated in the number two slot, does that make them the scrappy underdog? - but I quickly realized it probably doesn't matter.  They can come right out and say "Yes, we edit it all the time," mischaracterize the nature of the edits, and by the time it's on the second page the events in question never happened.  People don't remember anything these days that isn't on the first page of their feed aggregators. In any case, the entire affair is talking place  on Wikipedia.  Kudzu will grow over the propaganda soon enough.    Though time was indeed in short supply, we did fritter some portion of it pawing through ancient email headers, scraping for filth on old enemies.  Or enemies with whom we have resumed talks.  Or enemies who are now friends!  Even people I hope to make enemies in the future by my careless commentary must fall beneath the scanner's baleful eye.    Like a chugging trawler, we hauled up net after net of treasure onto the deck, sifting it on hands and knees.  I'd never expose it, of course - sparking a desperate arms race to find self-serving commentary is a conflict I'm likely to lose.  And with the deep catalogue of nemeses we've inspired worldwide (and even below the world, in the warrens of the pale Gambrya, where hate is eternal) it's not what I'd call a fabulous scenario.  For us, at least; no doubt, our foes have already begun their malevolent harvest.
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It offers more than you might have thought.
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Elevating the material is the least appreciated star turn on television. Sometimes the dialogue, or the premise or the story arc, leaves a lot to be desired and it&#39;s up to a real star to step up and salvage the show.
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There is a part of gamer psychology that is rarely discussed, but incredibly important: We are thrilled by wanton destruction. We need it like a form of food. Commentary by Clive Thompson.
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Tycho: This podcast covers the writing process for today's comic (and a number of other tangents). Of course, it's entirely possible you had already subscribed to the feed and are currently listening to it. In which case, I apologize profusely.   (CW)TB
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This is turning out to be more like a game of snakes and ladders than anything else. Or perhaps an analogy with chess would be better.
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If you're a regular user of Twitter you're probably quite familiar with this image.  They've tried lots of variants, making it funny, or cute, with pictures of LOL Cats, doing cute things with screw drivers, but the pictures aren't funny for long, the more you see them, the more tiresome they get. Then I had an idea they could be used for a good cause.  Yeah that does it!
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It is always slightly amusing when journalists compose self-righteous articles on the evils of cocaine abuse. To put it no higher, the media do not exactly comprise a drug-free zone.
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REVELATIONS of the &quot;self-righteous and aggressive looting&quot; of Hollinger International by its former chief executive Conrad Black and his associates are so jaw-droppingly obscene it is tempting to conclude that, given the extremity of the behaviour Black
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Readers sound off on the latest headlines.
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All the incense and intrigue of another papal conclave is upon us again. Well, sort of
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Romantic whimsy is hell. Either that, or press junkets.
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Pain the the butts beware Comments Another Friday, and another batch of comments, some of which almost have an IT angle. Let's get stuck in.â¦