This video is truly wonderful.

Peter Watts‘ latest book messed with my head.
We, as a species, can communicate. But what is it that we are communicating?

I wrote about 300 already.
Unfortunately what I said wasn’t entirely accurate. To analyze my two predictions:
This looks like a special-effects funhouse.
This was true.
But moreso, it doesn’t look bad.
This was false. One for two.
I said it to friends after seeing the movie, coworkers later, and I’ll repeat it here. The movie just made me want to [...]

But seriously, this is not cool. A girl’s feet get severed.
Here’s hoping she can be patched up. My fingers are crossed.

Oh, man, I can’t believe there’s a girl working in the game industry! Seriously, how does she find time to produce games between being making dinner for her husband, popping out babies and cleaning the house? I can’t believe that Sony would let her even show her face in public, they must be so embarrassed [...]

I’m not suggesting a reason, but this is pretty messed up: a lake disappeared. Poof!
Guesses on where the lake went?
My money’s on it being called back to Iraq–that surge needed some help, it seems.

Fantastic Metropolis. What happened to it? Are there any spiritual successors? What am I missing?

If the measure Bush vetoed would have become law, the White House said it would have compelled taxpayers for the first time in our history — to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos.
Frustrating.
The administration doesn’t seem to mind compelling taxpayers, yet again, to support the deliberate destruction of mature human life. But that gives [...]