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gigantic post from shaviro about the movie gamer. reminder dottage.

Quoted: Gamer, by Mark Neveldine

“Games of Empire,” is a blog that archives writings by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter on the contested convergence of video games and global Empire

Quoted: The future of computing may depend on embracing the chaos that defines human thinking. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.

click to play

ooohhahahaha

Quoted: Dirt Dog at his finest

I hope it happens.

Quoted: RIO DE JANEIRO - A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a 9-year-old boy living in Brazil should be returned to his American father, butthe case will likely be appealed again, officials said.

A panel of three Brazilian judges ruled the boy must be handed over to his father, David Goldman, at the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro within 48 hours, said Ricardo Zamariola, Goldman's attorney.

jonney redot so i remember to watch it later.

Quoted: The world-renowned Indian environmental leader and thinker Vandana Shiva spoke before thousands at Saturday's protest in Copenhagen. On Sunday, I spoke with her at Klimaforum, the People's Climate Summit, and asked for her assessment of President Obama and what he represents in the climate change talks. [includes rush transcript]

succinct, transparent and well-written critique of Samuelson's economic theory.
re-publishing this constitutes a nice "good riddance" gesture given that he just passed away.

Quoted: Paul Samuelson, America’s best known economist, died on Sunday. He was awarded the Nobel prize for economics, (founded one year earlier by a Swedish bank in 1970 “in honor of Alfred Nobel”). That award elicited this trenchant critique, published by Michael Hudson in Commonweal, December 18, 1970. The essay was titled “Does economics deserve a Nobel prize? (And by the way, does Samuelson deserve one?)”

I heard Heather on TWIG and TWIT episodes in Dec 2009 - very smart and very funny lady.