| Haiku #513 |
[13 May 2008|09:52am] |
Having a bad day
My keyboard lies in pieces
Best Buy awaits; Joy
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| 8 |
[08 May 2008|08:28am] |
On February 8, 1993, TIME Magazine did a cover story on Cyberpunk. On August 8, 1993, the New York Times also covered it. And that was the beginning of the end for Cyberpunk.
On May 8, 2008, the New York Times ran a piece on Steampunk.
R.I.P.
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| Unbelievable |
[26 Apr 2008|09:42am] |
I don't care if you're Christian, Jew, Polytheist, Deist, Cthulhist, Atheist, Buddhist or Hindu, this is asinine.
"Rocky Twyman has a radical solution for surging gasoline prices: prayer.
Twyman - a community organizer, church choir director and public relations consultant from the Washington, D.C., suburbs - staged a pray-in at a San Francisco Chevron station on Friday, asking God for cheaper gas."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/26/BUCN10C1KR.DTL
Even Nietzsche would say god was rolling over in his grave.
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| The Fall of Rome |
[18 Apr 2008|10:03am] |
Today I watched a television commercial for an antibacterial soap scum product. The mom and her child were in the bathroom and behind the shower curtain, dark shadowy animated bacteria shapes reared up and roared. The mother pulled back the curtain and the camera microscopically zoomed in to show us the bacterial monster world on the surface of the tub, which looked like something about halfway down Dante's Inferno. Of course the mom sprayed the bath product and all was well.
Over the top of this entire commercial, someone had decided that the word "Dramatization" needed to appear.
Ladies and Gentlemen, are we that stupid?
Maybe we are.
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| Hellas Unveiled |
[11 Apr 2008|03:38pm] |
For the past 18 months or so I've been working with Jerry Grayson (Godsend Agenda, d6 Powers) on a new RPG called Hellas. A few days ago we officially unveiled the Hellas website.
It's still a work in progress, but we've got working forums and some sneak preview artwork on the site, so please check it out if you're into historo-mytho-sci-fi-space-fantasy-opera role-playing.
http://hellasrpg.com/
Sign up for the forums and ask some questions. And stuff.
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| You Have To Burn The Rope PDQ |
[05 Apr 2008|05:44pm] |
http://www.mazapan.se/games/BurnTheRope.php
Hero
Good [+2] Jumping
Good [+2] Hurling Axes
Good [+2] Burning the Rope
Master [+6] Can't Really Die
Grinning Colossus
Master [+6] Axe Resistance
Poor [-2] Chandelier Vulnerability
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| Irony |
[03 Mar 2008|08:27pm] |
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/wrg/594769021.html
Trajan Magazine is an on-line men's magazine dealing with lifestyle and politics. We're reaching out to writers in the Seattle metro area who might be interested in contributing to our May issue on money and living the good life.
Compensation: no pay
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| Diet Chocolate Cherry Dr Pepper... |
[12 Feb 2008|10:40am] |
...tastes like drinking a Cherry Tootsie Roll Pop.
Which is to say, I have mixed feelings about it.
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| To the rude lady... |
[04 Feb 2008|12:12pm] |
... with the enormous stroller and the dog on the leash and the cup of coffee and the cell phone all blocking the entire sidewalk, forcing me into the street where they are dumping hot asphalt, and then giving me a dirty look about it because somehow it was my fault she was in my way and wouldn't move:
"Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms... but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
"This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength. Look for it. Study it.
"(I)t is too late to save this culture -- this worldwide culture, not just the freak show here in California. Therefore we must now prepare the monasteries for the coming Dark Age."
-- Heinlein, 'Friday', (c)1982
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| Cyberpunk, part 2 |
[02 Feb 2008|09:52am] |
For my Cyberpunk MUD I'm trying to create a timeline of the most notable Cyberpunk films, books and other media since 2000. This is not meant to be comprehensive - just to hit the big guns. I'd like between two and six things for each year.
What would you add? What would you remove? Is there anything coming out soon I should know about?
2000 The Sixth Day, Dark Angel
2001 The Crow 3, Versus, Avalon, Metropolis
2002 Altered Carbon, Equilibrium, Minority Report, S1M0NE, Cypher,
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
2003 Broken Angels, Jennifer Government, The Ultimate Cyberpunk, Animatrix,
The Matrix: Reloaded, The Matrix: Revolutions, Terminator 3, Solaris,
Paycheck, Code 46
2004 A Scanner Darkly, Immortel, Appleseed, Paranoia 1.0, Casshern,
Ghost in the Shell Innocence
2005 Market Forces, Woken Furies, Hammerjack, The Island, Aeon Flux
2006 Cybernetica, Prodigal, Children of Men, Renaissance, Ultraviolet
2007 Black Man (aka Thirteen), Looking Glass, Year Zero
2008 Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
2009
2010
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| How Cyberpunk are you? |
[24 Jan 2008|12:33pm] |
_X_ means I've seen it.
Cyberpunk Movies prior to 1980
_X_ A Clockwork Orange
_X_ Alien
___ Colossus: The Forbin Project
___ Creation of the Humanoids
___ Cyborg 2087
___ La Jetée
_X_ Metropolis
_X_ THX-1138
Cyberpunk Movies from 1980 - 1989
_X_ Akira
___ Android
___ Appleseed
___ Black Magic M-66
_X_ Blade Runner
_X_ Brazil
___ Bron_X_ Executioner
_X_ Bubblegum Crisis
_X_ Cherry 2000
_X_ Cyborg
___ Death Powder
___ Guinea Pig: Android of Notre Dame
___ Gunhed
_X_ Heavy Metal
___ Lathe of Heaven
_X_ Liquid Sky
___ Looker
_X_ Robocop
___ Runaway
___ Slipstream
___ Tetsuo (The Iron Man)
_X_ The Terminator
_X_ Tron
_X_ Videodrome
_X_ War Games
Cyberpunk Movies from 1990 - 1999
___ 8 Man After
___ 964 Pinocchio
_X_ Aeon Flux
_X_ Alien Resurrection
_X_ American Cyborg: Steel Warrior
___ Andoromedia
___ Armitage III
___ Automatic
___ Battle Angel
___ Bicentennial Man
___ Cyber City Oedo 808
___ Cybernator
_X_ Cyberpunk (Documentary)
_X_ Cyborg 2
_X_ Dark City
___ Death Machine
_X_ Eve of Destruction
_X_ eXistenZ
_X_ Fifth Element
_X_ Freejack
___ Full Metal Yakuza
___ Future War - It’s NOT Cyberpunk
_X_ Gattaca
_X_ Ghost in the Shell
_X_ Hackers
_X_ Hardware
___ Heatseeker
___ Johnny 2.0
_X_ Johnny Mnemonic
_X_ Judge Dredd
_X_ Lawnmower Man
_X_ Matrix
___ Menno's Mind
_X_ Nemesis
_X_ Nirvana
___ Omega Doom
___ Pi
_X_ Reboot
_X_ RoboCop 2
_X_ Robocop 3
___ Rubber's Lover
___ Screamers
___ Serial Experiments: Lain
___ Sixteen Tongues
_X_ Sneakers
_X_ Strange Days
_X_ Tank Girl
_X_ Terminator 2: Judgment Day
___ Terminatrix
___ Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
_X_ The Thirteenth Floor
_X_ Timecop
_X_ Total Recall
_X_ Twelve Monkeys
___ Virtual Girl
___ Virtual Obsession (Host)
___ Virtuosity
___ Webmaster
_X_ X-Files: Kill Switch (Episode 11, Season 5)
Cyberpunk Movies from 2000 to present
___ 2009: Lost Memories
___ A Scanner Darkly
___ Absolon
_X_ Aeon Flu_X_ (2005)
___ Appleseed (2004)
___ Armitage: Dual Matrix
_X_ Artificial Intelligence: AI
_X_ Avalon
___ Avatar (Cyber Wars)
_X_ Casshern
___ Cl.One
_X_ Code 46
___ Code Hunter
___ Cypher
___ Electric Dragon 80,000V
_X_ Equilibrium
___ Exterminator City
___ f8
___ Final Cut
___ Fragile Machine
___ Galerians: Rion
_X_ Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
___ Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
___ Hellevator: The Bottled Fools
_X_ I, Robot
___ I.K.U.
___ Immortel
___ Impostor
_X_ Kontroll
___ Magdalena's Brain
___ Malice@Doll
_X_ Matri_X_ Reloaded
_X_ Matri_X_ Revolutions
___ Metropolis (2001)
_X_ Minority Report
___ Natural City
_X_ One Point O {Paranoia 1.0}
___ Parasite Dolls
___ Puzzlehead
_X_ Renaissance
___ Returner
___ Save the Green Planet
_X_ Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
___ Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles Pilot Episodes
___ Texhnolyze
___ The Island
___ UCF: Toronto Cybercide
___ Ultraviolet
___ William Gibson: No Maps for These Territories
___ Wonderful Days {Sky Blue}
___ Xchange
I have seen 64/143 of these.
How did you do?
What's not on this list?
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| Subtle Editorial Bias 101 |
[01 Jan 2008|11:47pm] |
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/01/MNGNU7VE1.DTL&tsp=1
Let's look at the first four paragraphs.
( Read more... )
The fact is, most people skimming this article will read this:
"The two brothers who survived the Christmas Day tiger attack that killed their 17-year-old friend frantically sought to get help for more than 30 minutes before the zoo workers finally called 911."
And they will assume that it is fact, even though it's not necessarily true - it's just the words of an attorney representing some clients who stand to make millions of dollars.
You have to love journalism.
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| Rhapsody |
[01 Jan 2008|12:26pm] |
"Despite the changes, the basic storyline would always remain the same; Troy would always fall, and Odysseus would always make it home, just like Master Chief always saves the world, and Lord British always survives for another sequel. Little bits of each tale would contain similarities in structure - formulas - which not only allowed bards to more easily memorize long stories, but likely also allowed the audience to more easily understand who and what was being referred to."
Michael Fiegel traces the formulaic nature of today's game narratives to the epic poetry of centuries past.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_130/2761-Rhapsody
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