A paper of mine on the social education of youth in Final Fantasy 6, 7, & 8 appears today. It’s in the online journal Reconstruction: Studies in contemporary culture, in a “special issue”:http://reconstruction.eserver.org/061/contents.shtml on videogame culture. This paper (mentioned in a “previous post”:http://benhourigan.com/archives/2005/01/21/you-need-love-and-friendship-for-this-mission/) has a tortured history. The editors of this issue of Reconstruction, Matthew [...]
Nick Hornby, How to Be Good (London: Penguin, 2001), 244pp. ★★★ (3 stars) I got this as a Christmas present from Mum and Dad: unusual, since in Australia I’ve got so many unread books that I never read anything that people give me, and I think they know that. But they rightly guessed that books, [...]
I had the misfortune of falling sick today, my one day off this week. So I spent several hours finishing reading “Penny Arcade.”:http://www.penny-arcade.com Yes, all of it, from the first strip (“11 November 1998″:http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18) to the most recent “10 February 2006.”:http://www.penny-arcade.com/2006/02/10 I’m pleased to say that the strip has gotten better over time (as it [...]
Novell recently announced its release of the “Xgl”:http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/ code that it’s been working on by itself for a while. There are some videos of the upcoming Novell Linux Desktop 10 (NLD) at the “release page.”:http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/ The above picture is a mockup released a few months ago, but as “Jono Bacon”:http://www.jonobacon.org/viewcomments.php?id=637 has written, it’s very similar [...]
Today I’ve been reading about the “Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons controversy…”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy To summarise briefly, in September 2005, a Danish newspaper (the Jyllands-Posten) published a collection of caricatures of Mohammed. Doing so was intended to highlight a feeling that artists were self-censoring, afraid to depict Mohammed because of fear of reprisal from Muslim extremists–Islam forbidding depictions of [...]
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