Monday links
Oct. 13th, 2008 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiAt home, as we get Columbus Day off. Kinda weird; at Emory, the fall season was a dead zone for holidays (nothing between July 4 and Thanksgiving), but here, with Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Columbus Day, I've had a day off on each of the last three weeks.
A few links to start the week:
1. Paul Krugman won the Nobel prize for Economics! LIke Patrick Nielsen Hayden, I'd have figured it was for, "his distinguished work in the field of Being Right," but it's actually, "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity."
2. Sarah Beth Durst presents Tam Lin, with commentary.
3. The AV Club has a great interview with Patton Oswalt about movies and his upcoming film festival.
4. Chinese Democracy will hit on November 23!
5. Burn Notice has been renewed!
6. Marky Mark is not a fan of the "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals" sketch from SNL. The best part of this article is when they mention that he's promoting Max Payne. Between that and The Happening, it's like The Departed never happened.
7. Mets prospect Eddie Kunz is blogging from the Arizona Fall League.
8. Fincher's Rendezvous With Rama looks like it's not happening.
9. Starcraft 2 will be released as three separate games. Or, more accurately, Starcraft 2 will cost three times as much as a normal game.
10. Finally, what the world needs now is the baconburger fatty melt. My cholesterol shot up just looking at the pictures.
A few links to start the week:
1. Paul Krugman won the Nobel prize for Economics! LIke Patrick Nielsen Hayden, I'd have figured it was for, "his distinguished work in the field of Being Right," but it's actually, "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity."
2. Sarah Beth Durst presents Tam Lin, with commentary.
3. The AV Club has a great interview with Patton Oswalt about movies and his upcoming film festival.
4. Chinese Democracy will hit on November 23!
5. Burn Notice has been renewed!
6. Marky Mark is not a fan of the "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals" sketch from SNL. The best part of this article is when they mention that he's promoting Max Payne. Between that and The Happening, it's like The Departed never happened.
7. Mets prospect Eddie Kunz is blogging from the Arizona Fall League.
8. Fincher's Rendezvous With Rama looks like it's not happening.
9. Starcraft 2 will be released as three separate games. Or, more accurately, Starcraft 2 will cost three times as much as a normal game.
10. Finally, what the world needs now is the baconburger fatty melt. My cholesterol shot up just looking at the pictures.
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Date: 2008-10-13 01:54 pm (UTC)DAMMIT
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Date: 2008-10-13 02:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 02:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-10-13 02:13 pm (UTC)Three separate games?
Date: 2008-10-13 02:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 02:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 02:18 pm (UTC)Uwe Boll
Date: 2008-10-13 02:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 02:23 pm (UTC)Re: Three separate games?
Date: 2008-10-13 02:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 02:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 02:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 02:54 pm (UTC)baconburger fatty meltHeart Attack Express is. Yeesh.Re: Three separate games?
Date: 2008-10-13 02:56 pm (UTC)If I'm going to spend $600 on a game, I want to own it, not do the equivalent of renting it from the supplier.
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Date: 2008-10-13 02:57 pm (UTC)We can all learn a lesson from that.
His diatribes against corporate welfare are wholly laudable. His support of socialized medicine is not, but unlike many other proposals along these lines, one must actually argue against his; they cannot be dismissed out of hand, as so many others can be.
However, given the greatest sins of the current administration, he's been correct in opposing "trickle-down socialism" from day #1.
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Date: 2008-10-13 03:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 03:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 03:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 03:37 pm (UTC)But add grilled onions to it like the third
version as well as the bacon. Maybe some pickles too.
And a nice tomato slice in each bacon/cheese sandwich bun.
You don't have to unhinge your jaw,
just nibble away at any edge, top to bottom, etc.
And have a portable defibrillator nearby.
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Date: 2008-10-13 04:09 pm (UTC)Re: Three separate games?
Date: 2008-10-13 05:35 pm (UTC)I agree. I may be willing to buy an over-priced "trilogy" of games, but I won't spend one cent on any game that uses that DRM-limited-number-of-installs crap.
That's why I didn't buy, and won't be buying, Spore, even though I'm otherwise interested in it.
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Date: 2008-10-13 05:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 08:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 08:15 pm (UTC)Does anyone care that they're relevant?
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Date: 2008-10-13 08:32 pm (UTC)Now that I think about it, I'm surprised that Marvel hasn't come out with a comic called "Dangerous Visions".
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Date: 2008-10-13 11:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-13 11:31 pm (UTC)I really like burn notice. I don't know how accurate it is, but it feels increadibly well informed about spycraft.
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Date: 2008-10-14 01:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-14 10:49 pm (UTC)Now see what you've done. My cats want one. Each.
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Date: 2008-10-15 02:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-15 02:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-15 02:16 pm (UTC)