there’s this epic reddit thread that’s been making its rounds. this guy played the same civ 2 game for 10 years. i’ve never been much of a gamer so civilization 2 has largely escaped my notice. this might actually be a game i could endorse for little dude but that’s actually a side point. in scanning through the comments, there were a number of interesting strategies suggested for working through the morass in the future....
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. – abraham lincoln increasingly, i think that this statement holds true in the social networking domain. for the first time in history folks have a real-time broadcast mechanism at their disposal to broadcast the mundane and the potentially deeply poignant to all manner of folks.
i had this in my instapaper favorites from my reading queue a few months back. with the recent santorumism in the news as of late, this popped back into my noggin. ...
warming arctic permafrost fuels climate change worries ...
it’s been a bad few months; ritchie, jobs and now hitch. love him or hate him, he forced you to think and digest things. i largely loved his columns and his books but i took issue with his iraq war stance. i never wrapped my mind around the falklands bit and didn’t square with his socialist leanings. (real socialism, not the shit tea party definitions) that said, i rarely missed the opportunity to read him....