Archive for October, 2006

Jack Thompson promotes Bully

Posted on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 in General | No Comments »

As you’ve probably guessed, I like Jack Thompson news. Ben Kuchera from Arstechnica posted this:

What Jack Thompson really did for Bully was make sure that everyone talked about it for months before its release. Sure, brand-new IP from Rockstar is always going to be a big story, but Thompson and the rest of the talking […]

Al Gore speaks on new space policy

Posted on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 in General | 1 Comment »

A few weeks ago the Bush administration announced a new space policy that essential treats space as a natural resource that the US must defend. The quick summaries I read seems to state that the US is announcing their right to treat the rest of the universe as its own over all other countries and […]

We’re just monkeys

Posted on Friday, October 20th, 2006 in General | No Comments »

Here’s a quote from Sven’s blog:
“Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of […]

Broadcast 5 and Bridge

Posted on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 in Photos | No Comments »

I’ve put up a few photos from the weekend. On saturday I competed in a 5 a side football tournament with guys from work. We did ok in the group, not bad, but not good. The highlight was destroying our company rival, MPC, 7-1. Check the photo’s here.
On Sunday Alasdair, Jo and I went to […]

Important, but unheard news stories

Posted on Friday, October 13th, 2006 in General | 2 Comments »

Project Censored publishes a list of “censored” news stories each year. I agree that a few of these stories are important, and did not get enough media attention. So I’m linking them here.
Stories I found profound in that I hadn’t heard them were:
#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
I always knew they were […]

Kaplan on Korea

Posted on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 in General | 3 Comments »

For anyone who’s interested in the recent issues with North Korea, Robert Kaplan has written a very good summary on what’s going on:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200610/kaplan-korea