Al Gore: Upper Class Senator's Son Twit of the Year
The man's gall amazes me. Yesterday, Gore went so far as to state that the Bush administration ignored 9/11 warnings and chastised the FBI for spending more time on a New Orleans brothel than on tracking al Qaeda.
Wonder whose fault this is? Who had control of the Justice Dept. when the reforms were [...]
Starcraft: Ghost Announced at TGS
Blizzard announced Starcraft: Ghost at the Tokyo Game Show today. A console-only action title, it marks a radical departure for Blizzard. And, they stress, it's not Starcraft 2.
w00t!
UPDATE: ShackNews has shots. Looks slick.
Greek Gaming Idiocy Continues
Just when you thought sanity had regained its hold on the gov't of Greece, a court of appeals overturned an earlier ruling that threw out charges against the operators of an internet cafe. They were on trial for letting patrons play Counterstrike and (heavens no!) online chess games.
This story gets increasingly bizzare, not to [...]
It's Just Art, Right?
The NY Post reports that the hideous scultpure of a naked female WTC "jumper" on the moment of impact has been removed from Rockefeller Center. There has been some animosity expressed by the average New Yorker, and who can really blame them?
I also wonder why I haven't seen more media coverage of [...]
Scooped
As alert readers over at LGF astutely pointed out, the Bowden piece mentioned below is actually a reprint of an article he wrote for The Atlantic, chopped conveniently in twain for newspaper consumption.
So there. Now there's no reason for me to link to the Inq's Sunday version. *grin*
Sun to Sell Linux PCs
In what has to be one of the worst-disguised, highly-telegraphed moves in recent IT industry history, Sun announced today that they will be selling Linux-based PCs.
These PCs will likely be beefier versions of their Sun Ray thin clients, although, who knows? Maybe they'll sell a model intended to replace their low end Sun Blade [...]
The Life of a Tyrant
I've managed to track down Mark Bowden's piece Inside the World of a Tyrant (Part 1) that originally ran in the opinion section of this week's Philly Inquirer. For those who don't recognize the name "Mark Bowden": Mr. Bowden is the author of Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo, among other works. In [...]
