October 27, 2008 – 03:20 pm
Project Introduction
Like most red-blooded American males who grew up in the age of Atari, Nintendo, Sega, PlayStation, and XBox, I’ve long dreamt of creating a video game. Unfortunately, I have very few skills that would allow me to do such a thing. I’m not a software developer, nor can I draw worth a damn. About [...]
November 27, 2006 – 02:26 pm
Grab some bread and wine, ’cause it’s time to go looking for Jesus. Our little adventure is going to take about an hour, but it’s got high-quality production values and some interesting points that you might not want to miss.
October 20, 2006 – 06:00 am
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet. – Bruce Sterling, “Visionary in residence” at the Art Center College of Design in [...]
September 14, 2006 – 03:24 pm
I highly recommend giving this podcast a listen. It’s by Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.
Also if you haven’t checked out this site before, ITConversations is a great resource to hear people talking about all kinds of interesting things, everything from web development to robots [...]
Last night, we returned from Free Wing Night at the pub, and before hitting the sack, I wanted to check my computer to see if my BitTorrent download had completed. While I waited for my screensaver to turn off (always a bitch when Azureus is running), a giant fucking moth landed on my monitor. I [...]
Neowin.net has posted Bill Gates’ e-mail to employees. While he writes a bunch of non-interesting stuff, one thing he did say was that Microsoft has doubled revenues in six years and generated over a billion dollars in profit every month.
IN PROFIT!!!!
EVERY MONTH!!!
That’s just damn ridiculous.
No wonder the man is retiring to work full-time for [...]
In 1937, H.G. Wells penned an essay entitled, World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia, in which he wrote:
…thinkers of the forward-looking type whose ideas we are now considering, are beginning to realize that the most hopeful line for the development of our racial intelligence lies rather in the direction of creating a [...]
And I love my boyand that’s why I’m leavingI don’t want him to be aware that there’sany such thing as grieving-Sineád O’ConnorFrom Black Boys on Mopeds
Hope and its Other
This is to be a philosophy of hope. It is to sit down and write something that wants to be read. It is the commitment of that [...]
For those of you who enjoyed reading (or reading about) my senior study project, “Of Creative Nonphilosophy,” you’re in luck. Because I’ve got two more senior studies for your wonderful hearts to peruse. The first is by the lovely Ms. [name redacted by request], which you can find on her brand new blog(!), Chora. [Name [...]
April 25, 2006 – 08:44 pm
As some of you may know, I am (currently) an undergraduate student in the Progressive Program at Green Mountain College in Vermont. As part of our requirements for graduation, Progressive Program students must complete a Senior Study. The Senior Study is a 12-credit project that acts as a capstone to the student’s entire undergraduate career. [...]
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