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An open letter to BP’s PR department
Dear BP’s PR department:
First of all, let’s get one thing very, very clear before we go any further: your company has fucked up. Not “made a regrettable error” or “inadvertently” anything. You have caused a massive unnatural disaster. Right now, pretty much everybody on the planet hates your guts. There are guys in caves in [...]
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The feeling begins.
Taking a break from coding and house cleaning — I have a birthday party here tomorrow night, and my house is a wreck.
I’ve decided, tentatively, to blog about my current unique situation. People seem interested in how this came about and what I’m doing to get ready to go to Iraq. (I’m pretty sure it’s [...]
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The Dawning Of The Day
Tonight, I did the same thing I did last year on this day: I stood in the dark and listened to Mary Fahl’s “The Dawning Of The Day”, and I cried for people I never knew.
I hate jingoism, and I hate the way that so many people have used September 11th as a springboard for [...]
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What I'm doing right now…
…well, I don’t want to say just yet. But it’s pretty cool.
It’s a new gig. I actually have a title this time that means something. And you may be seeing more of me than usual….
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Patchwork ideas
A lot of people have been linking to Warren’s post “The Patchwork Years“. I thought you might be interested in something I emailed him back in January, which is my take on the ideas he’s exploring in his post. (Which is to say, great minds think alike.) I think this email was occasioned by this [...]
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RIP Stan Winston
Effects guru Stan Winston dies of cancer at 62 – Yahoo! News
Oh, man. Stan Winston was one of my few real heroes when I was a kid — his work on Terminator and Aliens and T2 and Jurassic Park was a lot of the reason I got into movie FX and, later, computer graphics in [...]
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Spore
I’m not really much of a gamer. I was when I was a kid, back in the Stone Age, and I’ve had my periods of obsessive game play as an adult, though it was more linked to specific games (Half-Life, American McGee’s Alice, GTA: Vice City, Tomb Raider) than to a desire to game in [...]
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Cheers, Saturday Night
Cheers, Saturday Night
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The hat is not fashion. The hat is what you wear when you’re walking around for extended periods in 105ยบ weather.
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Dbasr is live.