Monthly Archives: February 2006

You (Still) Need Love and Friendship for this Mission!

Posted on 2006-02-28 by Benjamin Hourigan

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 on videogame culture. This paper (mentioned in … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Call For Papers, Contemporary Culture, Davin, Editors, Final Fantasy 6, Heckman, Interesting Subjects, Love And Friendship, Love Friendship, Monospaced Font, Pdf Version, Reconstruction, Site Planning, Social Education, Web Design, Wolf | 1 Comment

How to Be Good (review)

Posted on 2006-02-19 by Benjamin Hourigan

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Acts, Beautiful Life, Christmas, Christmas Present, Despair, Divorce, Doctor Who, Emptiness, Happiness, Katie Carr, Marriage, Mum And Dad, Nick Hornby, Penguin, Protagonist, Spiritual Conversion, Supermarket, Unread Books, Vanessa Bell, Watches Tv | Leave a comment

Penny Arcade

Posted on 2006-02-11 by Benjamin Hourigan

I had the misfortune of falling sick today, my one day off this week. So I spent several hours finishing reading Penny Arcade. Yes, all of it, from the first strip (11 November 1998) to the most recent 10 February … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 11 November, Comic, kudos, Mike Krahulik, Misfortune, Penny Arcade, Sick Day, Ubiquity | 1 Comment

This is GNOME 3.0

Posted on 2006-02-8 by Benjamin Hourigan

Novell recently announced its release of the Xgl 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. The above picture is a … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Bacon, Closed Doors, Desktop Search, Desktops, Devel, Distros, Flash Plugins, Gnome Org, Gnome Version, Mail, Mockup, Nld, Novell, Novell Linux Desktop, Operating Systems, Style Window, Usability, Video Playback, X Style, Xgl | 1 Comment

Not only the right, but the duty to caricature god — Non seulment la droite, mais le devoir de caricaturer le dieu

Posted on 2006-02-7 by Benjamin Hourigan

Today I’ve been reading about the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed 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, … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Caricatures Of Mohammed, Depictions Of Mohammed, Embassies In Syria, European Newspapers, French Journal, Hair Trigger, Islamic Extremists, Journal France Soir, Jumping The Gun, Jyllands Posten, Mohammed Cartoons, Mona Lisa, Muhammad Cartoons Controversy, Muslim Extremists, Norwegian Embassies, Norwegian Newspaper, Page Headline, Posten Muhammad Cartoons, Posten Muhammad Cartoons Controversy, Religious Symbols | 2 Comments

The IT Crowd, Episode 1 (review)

Posted on 2006-02-1 by Benjamin Hourigan

A review of the first episode of The IT Crowd. Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 20th Century, Airs, Broadcasters, Channel 4, Cross Platform Support, Divx, Entertainment Tv, Few Minutes, H 264, Linux Users, Melbourne Age, Melbourne Newspaper, Sitcom, Support Mpeg, System Call, Theora, Thr, Watch Tv, Windows Users, Xvid | 8 Comments