The Staging of the Jessica Lynch Rescue. This is a very interesting comment left today on one of our earlier Jessica Lynch posts: I came upon this… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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more people should read baudrillard's political economy of the sign.

Building knowledge societies. UNESCO is currently hosting a “virtual exhibition” on Building Knowledge Societies. The exhibition consists of annotated links to projects in several areas: creating knowledge, preserving knowledge, sharing knowledge, and transmitting knowledge. It includes some open-access projects, but not as many as it should, given its focus. [Open Access News]

yasd.

my nethack game was going nicely (even had a gray dragon scale mail from a wish), and then i choked while eating a fire giant corpse. level 14, 122479 points. not bad. i should know better than to continue to chomp on big corpses while satiated, though…

i'm still playing 3.3.1. i even play 3.2.2 when i'm at my mom's house & the possibilities of her grape imac (with mac os 8.5.1) are otherwise exhausted. i tried 3.4 a while ago, but the os x version wasn't great…i should eventually try it again.

• which nethack monster are you? – i'm a unicorn/water nymph
• nethack for the ti-83 – whoa. awesome.
• nethack fan fiction – eep!

best computer game ever.

[a jeweled platypus]

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it truly is the best computer game ever…