http://www.heresy.com We Must Move Forward Tue, 13 May 2008 19:50:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My friends nudged me to read Freakonomics by Stephen D Levitt - which I did by audiobook. Inside, the chapter "Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms?", Levitt breaks down how the drug dealing ganglife is little better than working at McDonalds. Recently, Venkatesh has given ... http://www.heresy.com/2008/05/13/whether-by-hook-crook-or-book-what-sudir-venkatesh-knows/ In the last couple of centuries, with the UK's and USA's efforts on the rights of children, such as child labor laws and penalties for juvenile criminals, slowly a change of perspective is occurring in other nations. We're seeing a rise of child abuse investigations in Europe - especially ... http://www.heresy.com/2008/05/07/the-migration-of-childrens-rights-to-other-cultures/ Beuller? Beuller? Anyone? I used to love Ben Stein. I mean LOVE the guy, he is smart, erudite and willing to make not-so-smart people pay for their mistakes. I just re-read what I wrote. Ok, I do not have a fetish for Ben ... http://www.heresy.com/2008/04/30/ben-stein-is-a-fucktard/ Recently, a friend of mine dropped me a link to some kinetic typography on Youtube.com: a beautiful rendition of the "What Does Marcellus Wallace look like?" Pulp Fiction scene done completely in moving type. Then of course, I went on my pig-hunting-for-internet-truffles mode and discovered a Fight Club's Space ... http://www.heresy.com/2008/03/23/kinetic-typography-guitar-hero-they-speak-english-in-what/ So let's hear it for an overcomplicated user interface and strange gameplay! Stardocks' Sins of the Solar Empire is an a empire-building space based game that has some very nice features, is a decently designed and developed low-budget game. Sins doesn't have a ton of fancy graphics that makes your ... http://www.heresy.com/2008/02/17/sins-of-the-solar-daddy-ironcladstardocks-sins-of-a-solar-empire/ Apparently Microsoft Santa is a nasty old AI. (Quote lifted from MarketingPilgrim? so obviously, it has to be true. ) What kind of sick bot programmer would confuse Christmas with Going Down on the Unpubed? El Reg says: pizza (pi) Santa ... http://www.heresy.com/2007/12/06/well-someone-had-to-program-it/ [I hate reviewers that do not specify how far they played. I got to Act 3, with a level 22 Engineer, a level 10 Blademaster, and a level 5 Summoner - four days of nearly 25 hours of game time.] Four days after buying Hellgate: London, I got to act ... http://www.heresy.com/2007/11/06/my-own-private-hellgate-review-of-hellgate-london/ **snort** http://www.heresy.com/2007/10/07/anomaly-hyperdeathbabies/ I've delayed reading Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein for some reason. Personally, I think it's because he comes to Phoenix to sign his Black Summer comic book on the largest downpour of water I've ever seen in my fraggin 8 years of living in this outer circle of hell. Ha, vengeance ... http://www.heresy.com/2007/10/06/crooked-little-vein/ [Writer's group assignment: my group assigns weekly homework for us to keep our brains going. This one was a particularly vile one, so I thought I'd post it. It's totally whiney, but fun. I've been asked to perform it as a talking piece. Enjoy.] Marriage is an ex-wife calling ... http://www.heresy.com/2007/10/04/marriage/