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midcenturymodernfreak: Gerry Anderson’s Captain Scarlet Vs. The Mysterons – Via
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NETLab Toolkit » NETLabTK Update!
NETLab Toolkit » NETLabTK Update! It’s been a long time coming, but we’re about to move the toolkit forward to a completely new architecture. Flash Pro has been good to us, but now is the time to adopt modern technologies like HTML5 and Nodejs. In addition, the new NTK version is designed to run on…
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Eludamos, Journal of Games and Culture Vol 8, No 1 (2014)
Eludamos, Journal of Games and Culture Vol 8, No 1 (2014)
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It’s called the drug war, and it’s a racist war. Ronald Reagan was an extreme racist — though he denied it — but the whole drug war is designed, from policing to eventual release from prison, to make it impossible for black men and, increasingly, women to be part of [American] society. Noam Chomsky (via…
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Malamud’s “By the People” – stirring history of the Government Printing Office [2009]
mostlysignssomeportents: I’ve just finished reading Carl Malamud’s remarkable pamphlet, By the People, the transcript of an address he gave to the Government 2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 10, 2009. Carl is the beloved “rogue librarian” who has done so much to liberate tax-funded government works, from movies to court rulings to the text…
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But I now realize how much I yearn for a gaming experience in which things just happen to you, and in which small actions can have great or small consequences, forseen or unforseen. There is certainly a peculier sense of exhileration (and anxiety) in surrendering to the uncontrollable nature of life. Singing White Fungus (via…
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…I’ve been impressed by how all the warmongers and the false predictors get promoted, and they get on op-ed pages, and they get jobs after they have failed in the U.S. government. We know Robert Rubin and Larry Summers and Wolfowitz and Cheney and all these people. And we don’t—we don’t recognize people who have…
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2018: The year the United Nations officially charges the United States of America with war crimes between 1990 and 2012
pitchgrey: Ambassadors flee New York City in the largest helicopter flotilla in history
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azspot: Hypocrisy and U.S. Foreign Policy Hypocrisy is central to Washington’s soft power — its ability to get other countries to accept the legitimacy of its actions — yet few Americans appreciate its role. Liberals tend to believe that other countries cooperate with the United States because American ideals are attractive and the U.S.-led international…