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Archive of posts filed under the life category.
Democracy à la mode
Suppose you want to be president of the United States. How would you get there? Well, assuming you were born into a wealthy family, you might start with law school and local politics. Make sure to practice public speaking and cultivate as much personal charisma as you can muster. Campaigns are expensive, and you wouldn’t [...]
Contrast
There’s an interesting contrast between these two views of what it means to win a Nobel Peace Prize:
Extrinsic Motivation: the Danger That Games Embody
There’s a new editorial up today on Kotaku describing a man’s struggle with the disconnect between reality and the elaborate systems of extrinsic rewards we have used as the basis of so many things in our society. As Kotaku is a gaming news website, the role of video games in this process is of course [...]
Why do people hate the US?
Hint: it isn’t for our freedom.
Just one representative data point
Ranked by income inequality, the United States is now ninety-fifth in the world, just behind Nigeria, Iran, Cameroon, and the Ivory Coast.
The State of the Union
Why should the President be the only one who presents his views on the current status of the nation? This is my assessment of the State of the Union.
Prediction: Sandy will be exploited
Gotta get this in fast, since it is probably being worked on right now, or maybe I’m too late and just haven’t heard about it. Obama and Romney both will attempt to exploit Hurricane Sandy to gain more power. Obama will likely be successful. Expect it. Resist if you can.
This affects you.
If you are an American, or are interested in what is going on in America today, you should read this book: With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald. The things that are happening now, described in this book, affect you.
…also, politics.
A while back, Patrick Rothfuss reluctantly talked about politics on his blog:
More about Watch Dogs…
Rock, Paper, Shotgun has an interview up today about the game that sheds some more light on things. In it, we find out that there will be some cool multiplayer stuff in the game, which I didn’t know from the videos, and we get some hints about the main character, Pearce, and his motivations.
Dallas Comic Con
This past weekend was the Dallas Comic Con, which I attended on Saturday. While there, I got glimpses of Patrick Stewart and Stan Lee, and braved the sea of people to explore the expo hall. I saw an excellent Harley Quinn win the comics category in the costume contest, and perused some wares.
Eventually there’s some stuff about the Authors Guild
In the Guardian piece I linked yesterday Clay Shirky was quoted saying, “Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the solution.” Anecdotal evidence and intuition agree with this observation, but what does it really mean?
Little Games
On Wednesday the New York Times Magazine published a really interesting article that talks a little about gamification and a lot about specifically the type of games, often found on Facebook and mobile devices, that capitalize on the snippets of “free” time everyone has between doing other things. It’s definitely worth a read; go check it [...]
