Reading the /. thread on the XCOR rocket engine and was just thinking… If this explodes, does this mean Doom 3 gets delayed?
Related: the rest of Armadillo Aerospace’s site is interesting, including a development log
Category: Legacy
Digitally Photographing Artwork for a Web Site – shows how you’d want to light and shoot art works
In prep for EOS-10D plunge:
- dpreview: Canon SLR Talk Forum
- Rob Galbraith Forums: Canon EOS D30/D60 and 10D
- Canon Digital Photography Forum: EOS-D
With a wide 1.4/f prime lens at 3200 ISO, one should be able to take decent hand-held shots in street lights. (some photo tool links)
AICN put up the track listing for the Matrix Reloaded Soundtrack the other day. Overall, looks rather uninspired (P.O.D.? puh-lease). One interesting track title:
Juno Reactor – Mona Lisa Overdrive
Nice Gibson reference. Also, there’s a track by Fluke too. I’d been wondering what happened to ’em. Seemed like they disappeared of the face of the earth? Loved their dark big-beat sound.
And in continuing Radiohead news, May 8 deadline to contribute motion graphics/video to a RH music video.
According to at ease, [also green plastic] Nigel Godrich (producer) has confirmed that the Hail To The Thief leaked was an unmastered mix. What does that mean? That the real thing will be even better.
Mozillazine: Bookmarks Branch Landing Offers Many Improvements. (Bug 196756)
Ed Felten has been monitoring the Super-DMCA.
Super Patriotism, The Media, and Ideological Obedience
Where does this superpatriotism come from, this arrogance (as many non-Americans see it), this idea that the US is almost God-like, that it can do no wrong, that whatever it says or does -no matter how unfair objectively- is ok simply because it’s the US that does it? When did it originate? Was it always a feature of the American psyche? I suspect the elites and their propaganda system promote this actively and consciously, but did they create it?
It is pretty astonishing. Within two years the Bush administration has succeeded in making the US the most feared nation in the world, and the most disliked, even hated. That’s quite an achievement. Conspiracy theorists might conclude they’re really working for Bin Laden. …
Also, a reminder that we are invading here:
A suicide attack by military forces resisting an invasion can’t possibly be called an act of terrorism. Suppose the Iraqi army were surrounding New York and the Iraqi air force were bombing it unopposed. If an American carried out a suicide attack against the invading forces, would anyone call it “terrorism”? Or a violation of the laws of war? Or would we rather regard it as remarkable heroism, and grant the person an honored place in history?
The US isn’t committing state terrorism. This is aggression, pure and simple, a textbook case. Even CNN provides more than enough information to make that conclusion crystal clear. One can perhaps argue that the aggression is justified on some grounds, but there can hardly be any argument about what it is. Again, simply reverse the picture. Suppose that huge Iraqi armies had invaded the US, were attacking cities, etc. Would we call it “state terrorism”?
Added some news links to the left. (Has this turned into a warblog?) It’s really sort of taken over. Had some good LMS links, but power outage took it out. May look for that tomorrow night. Also, more programming.