The X-Men 2 Trailer is online! Here’s a direct download — right-click and “Save Target As”. Streaming video sucks. I was a bit worried by the teaser trailers that this movie wasn’t going to be up to the first’s level of story, but now my fears have been put to rest and I’m offically Really Excited about the release!
And while we’re watching trailers, check out this one for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (direct download because streaming sucks)
Hey, what do you know, video games are good for you. Finally, research not being done by socialogists who see guns and think “Oh no, violence!”
I play a LOT of “violent” video games. Random mindless violence is pretty funny at times, and to know why you have to look at the link between humour and violence that has always existed. A smile and an agressive baring of fangs are incredibly similar and sociologists theorize that the smile grew out of a need to show that something that seemed dangerous actually wasn’t.
So it is with video games. When I see horrific violent content in a fantasy world, it’s funny. If I were to see the same thing for real, my reaction is the absolute opposite. Believe me, I haven’t been desensitized to real violence, and I’ve been playing games like this nearly my whole life.
Hey kids, time to play Gulf War II.
Also, Bush is no Nazi. Honest.
Best line in there, and one I wish all Americans would really meditate on: “America doesn’t start wars, we end them.”
I’m not the cleanest person in the world. No, scratch that, I’m downright messy. Here are some shots of my work area, with “stuff’ strewn about everywhere.
Before:
Every once in a while I’ll get off my butt and actually start cleaning up. This weekend Mel & I did a massive effort to clean up the office area, and the results are pretty impressive. I finally said goodbye to all my game and software boxes that contained nothing and took up heaps of space in the closet.
After:
I’ve already got Scott Kurtz’s PVP linked, so you know I like his work, but his Matrix parody in the print issue of PVP #5 is brilliant and is now available online in its entirety for free.
You owe it to yourself to check it out.
Woke up this morning to the news of the shuttle Columbia shattering on reentry and don’t quite know what to say.
Part of me is detached and logical with an “if you want to make an omelette…” kind of viewpoint, another part worried that this might slow down space exploration, and another just plain old sad for the astronauts that lost their lives doing great things and their families.
From all of me to the survivors of the shuttle incident, whether they be families who have lost their loved ones, or workers that have lost friends, my sympathies.
“If we die, we want people to accept it. We’re in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.”
- Virgil I. Grissom, March, 1965. Grissom later died in the capsule fire in Apollo 1.
Edit: Here is an article with bios on the seven astronauts.
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