Derren Brown is investigating supernatural phenomena in a miniseries of documentaries called Derren Brown Investigates. He wrote a great blog post to introduce the show, which delves into his approach and the nature and necessity of skepticism, which he defines as “reserving judgement until the evidence is weighed.” Predetermined disbelief he calls cynicism. It’s a [...]
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Spam Comments
A lot of spam comments get blocked here. I can see them, and it’s kind of amusing how many lately attempt to use flattery to get approved. Things like “your writing is great” on a page with just a list of games I’m playing and have played. Not very believable in many cases, but I [...]
Obligatory iPad Opinion/Speculation/Analysis
Almost everyone seems to have an opinion about the recently-announced Apple iPad.1 If you don’t, I may surmise that you either a) live under a rock, or have been distanced from the internet and tangential media and people enough that you have not yet heard about it, or b) you do not have any opinions at [...]
Chrome for Mac
Chrome is finally available for Mac! It’s beta, and so far it runs a bit slower than the Windows version (opening and closing tabs is noticeably a little slower), but it will improve. Already set as my default browser… Safari 4 is really nice, but the “omnibox” is the one thing I missed when using [...]
Worldbuilders 2009
Patrick Rothfuss has just begun his second annual Heifer International fundraiser, which now has a name: Worldbuilders. If you donate you can get lots of cool prizes, most of which are sci-fi/fantasy books.
On the way to 0.2.0
Photos? Oh, right. I’ll get around to putting them up before too long. Really. Also, spam-bots are getting more clever. I was almost taken in by this spam comment:
Whew. Seattle.
We’re back from our trip to Seattle. We got back Tuesday last week [at least, it was last week when I first wrote this sentence], but brought with us a flu, perhaps the “PAX Pox” as some are calling it, so this post has been unstarted for a while.
Twitter & Stuff
So I’m on Twitter now. Maybe I’ll use that a little more frequently than I post here? Anyway my username is SharedProphet, on both Twitter and Facebook (they let you have a username on Facebook now to make it easier for people to find you).
Another shirt? Is that all I do anymore?
Well, no, I also work, eat, sleep, help take care of Chloe, etc. But yes, I have created another shirt. For this one, I looked at the gaming-related shirts I could find on CafePress and noticed that people newer to gaming, specifically new audiences reached by the Wii and DS, were generally under-represented. So I [...]
And again…
Yet another new shirt, in exchange for your money. I’m having fun with this…
