Tell them Tony sent you
The site "Dave's Long Box" features posts about the proprietor's comic book collection. I originally found this site through, uh, a link to his post "Everybody Loves Power Girl!", where Power Girl is apparently some kind of DC Comics superheroine whose power is pretty much having great tits. The industry sure knows its target audience. The way superhero comics are typically drawn, I am not entirely sure how that makes her unique, but what the hey. Another blog "The Comics Curmudgeon" analyzes newspaper comic strips. "One Fan's Opinion" gives a more professional view.
Another time when we had already moved here, my wife had gone to America for a few days with her friend. When she got back, at the door she asked me me act like a supervillain for a moment. I started a Hulk act, and she put her hand in her purse and tossed me a Hostess fruit pie. And they sure were delicious! How come there are so many products that we don't have here in Canada?
The essay "Education and Class" comments the often-heard complaint about education being inherited from parents to children, which in turn solidifies the class society.
In Los Angeles, people can use the site "InSPOT LA" to anonymously inform other people that they have given them an STD. Since the site does not engage in any kind of verification or keep any identifying data, the potential for all kinds of merry pranksterism is limitless.
Ernest Adams has a bunch of excellent essays about computer game production. The essay "What's Copyright, Grandpa?" paints a future in which the concept of copyright is obsolete.
By the way, whatever happened to Mumia Abu-Jamal? I don't think I have seen that name mentioned for a long time now, even though with the Tookie Williams debacle there would have been many excellent opportunities. When I first heard about this case years ago, I wondered how come American conservatives and republicans didn't take up the cause of this brave freedom fighter who defended the liberties of his fellow man against the jackbooted government thug. Heh, that must have been early to mid nineties or something like that. Things sure were different back then. Remember kids, head shots work best.
Catallarchy is one my favourite blogs. Anybody who can write the following paragraph (in post "Law and Economics of Suicide") must be a true economist.
Perhaps Posner has spoken to it (query what Posner hasn’t spoken to) but it occurred to me that laws against suicide may be economically efficient, in that an individual’s suicide often imposes massive negative externalities on friends and family.
The online magazine "The Phat Phree" featured the article "Chinese Buffets: A How-To Guide"
that explains how you would maximize the enjoyment of cheap Chinese
food. When we hadn't moved in here yet or even married but I just came
to visit my wife, I often visited such cheap Chinese restaurants for
nourishment. Haven't done that for a while, though, since when I feel a
real hankering for Chinese food, Mandarin Buffet is so much better in every respect. Say, is that place "Dragon's Palace" in Waterloo still operational?
I
have never understood why American and Canadian gamma males settle for
in many ways defective gamma females (fat, ugly, smokes, personality
disorder etc.) of their respective homelands, since by the world
standards they are unimaginably wealthy alpha males who treat their
wives in a civilized manner. They would be able to get a far better
deal in the Third World countries, so all you single loserguys, get
your asses over there doubletime. Until then, the mating competition
for quality females is a zero-sum game, and the site "Tenets of Leykis" instructs men how to advance in it.
Gamma males can, of course, just visit the Third World. The essay "In praise of sex tourism" by Bart Croughs
argues that sex tourism is a good thing, since it increases equality in
Western society and gives money to grassroots industries in the Third
World.
One of the best essays by Theodore Dalrymple is "A Prophetic and Violent Masterpiece" that examines how the world of the novel "A Clockwork Orange"
and the movie has realized in the present-day Britain. In many ways,
the book was too optimistic. For example, Alex and his droogs are not
sons of unemployed single mothers and hundred fathers. Another essay "Poetry and Self-Pity" made me laugh in many ways.
The blog "The Enlightenment Project" should not be confused with an X Window Manager of the same name. From its archives, I note the posts "The Third Sex" and "Conservative Multiculturalism".
I am skeptical that sites such as "Rate My Professors"
could work for any profession, since the moment any such site becomes
important in the sense that it could actually affect business, it will be gamed since it is so trivially easy to game. For the same reason, I consider reader reviews at Amazon to be meaningless.
The new post "Cold blooded sex is not sex?" at "Classical Values"
wonders about the recent decision that if men sodomize a boy with a
broomstick, it is not a sex assault unless you can prove that those men
were gay. Silly me, thinking all this time that rape is not about sex
but power.
The article "Sex & Consequences"
by Peter Wood looks at cultures that already accept polygamy and gay
marriage, and doesn't find them very enlightened in other respects.
The post "A New Twist on the "Heckler's Veto"" made me wonder about the philosophical nature of the fourth wall.
I think it was SeanBaby where I first read the observation that stereotypes annoy people because they are so often true. The post "Detroit a Slum? Who knew?" in "Mahalanobis" notes that
Generalizations are often hurtful, but mainly when they are true, because no one gets mad when someone says 2+2=5. Therefore, if one wishes to counter a generalization, the best response is not “that’s not true”, but silence.
Heather doesn't have two mommies in Aesop's Fables. Apparently all copyrights have run out a long time ago, since you can read them for free online.
In Grant McCracken
(am I mistaken, or wasn't that some old Lucasfilm or Sierra adventure
game?) I noticed that Americans have now also learned the handy word "Precarity".
These jokers are well known in Finland as snotnosed socialist losers
who hate and want to destroy the surrounding society, because they
can't succeed in it.
"Otaku, Cedric's Weblog" explains "Why Ruby on Rails won't become mainstream" and what is going to be "a programming language for 2010".
The posts that can be found in "Best of Craigslist"
somehow feel different than the blogosphere. It would be interesting to
see a blog written by a normal person. For humour value, "Give it up, Hipster. An Ode" alone is worth the admission price.
"How dare you marry her?!?"
may be real or an Onion-style parody of political correctness. The
article didn't mention what department in the university the author
works in, but it's probably physics or economics.
You remember slightly wrong. That legendary game was called Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, published by LucasFilm Games (and by the time PC version came out, the publisher was called LucasArts).
Posted by Pasi | 1:59 AM
There were "free Mumia" posters at the "don't kill Tookie" demonstrations. You can also occasionally see "free Mumia"-posters in Cambridge, MA, for no good reason at all.
Posted by Vera | 5:28 AM