Jeff Deverett produces a kid’s show in Toronto called Ricky’s Room that is carried by some PBS channels. Deverett is currently protesting the new film, Death to Smoochy, a dark comedy about such children’s shows. According to Deverett, Death to Smoochy is the equivalent of the Sept. 11 attacks for kids. When the World Trade…
March, 2002
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For the last few months I’ve been (slowly) updating all of the articles on this site with a keyword system. Whenever I update the site with a new entry, I have a list of 13 categories with numerous subcategories under each of them. For example, when I posted this article about a new high-resolution image…
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Boing!Boing! pointed to this long article by a person in Sacramento that starts out being about ugly signs offering a work-at-home scam and ends up being about Herbalife. After college, my first job was working for a hospital laundry. The laundry had very little handle on its inventory and bought a half-assed system to try…
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Tech TV – “‘Freedom Force’ is rock-solid entertainment. Comic-book fan or no, playing this game will put a silly grin on your face and remind you that sometimes you have to toss cars around in the name of justice.” TFH Gaming Review – “FF is not just a great strategy role playing game, but a…
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The BBC reports that a Zimbabwean correspondent for The Daily Telegraph was arrested and charged with “publishing false information.” Peta Thornycroft, 57, was apparently arrested because she was investigating alleged acts of violence carried out by government supporter against Zimbabwe’s opposition parties. Anything which might be critical of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe is now officially…
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It’s official — the superhero computer game curse is finally over. Freedom Force arrived in stores for this week and it is getting extremely good reviews from gaming web sites. I’ve spent the last two days running through the game’s 25 missions until my eyes are too blurry to focus. Freedom Force is largely what…
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One of the things I hope I never end up doing is being one of these parents who makes some idiotic comment defending the undefendable actions of their kids. At the university I attended and now work at there is an area right near campus called Knollwood. Because it is a very large area with…
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The good folks at OpenRpg.Com are busy working on an open source Internet application that would allow people to play RPGs over the Internet. I’ve played with a number of applications like this, and OpenRPG is as good as anything out there, plus it is extremely customizable, including a plug-in architecture.
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I normally don’t like to just say “here’s a link, go read it,” but Charles Paul Freund’s article, In Praise of Vulgarity, is one of the best essays I have read in a very long time. Unfortunately, it is almost 9,000 words long and doesn’t lend itself well to reading on the web. Print it…
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Ah, yes, Yasser Arafat’s idea of peace with Israel.