Archive for January, 2010
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[?]Submitted by Animal Person
I’ve been blogging here less partly because I’ve been blogging at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (check out my latest post “On Corporate Personhood and Animal Rights” and the better-than-the-post comments) but also because I’ve been feeling like a broken record and I don’t want to bore anyone.
It seems […]
Osama Bin Laden Jumps The Shark
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[?]Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
By Darryl Mason
Bin Laden, or whoever is making those tapes, reinvents himself as anti-capitalist, anti-global warming warrior. Or as it will probably be soon known : Greenhadism.
The War On Terror is dying in a flurry of exposed forgeries and outright frauds. There has to be something […]
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No wonder they hate President Obama so much. He’s got a very, very big mouth :
“The Government Accountability Office, the GAO, has looked into 96 major defense projects from the last year, and found cost overruns that totaled $296 billion….indefensible, no-bid contracts that cost taxpayers billions […]
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11,000 Haitians are being paid 60 cents an hour by the UN to clear away the rubble of their capital city, and begin rebuilding. The UN plan to employ 90,000 more :
This devastated capital showed increasing signs of stirring back to life on Wednesday as Haitians […]
Criticism That Cuts Too Close To The Bone
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The Google News links to the original Jerusalem Post story are dead….
…..but it’s still cached here for now.
So why has the Jerusalem Post attempted to disappear this story?
The Holocaust only gets media coverage because of affluent Jews’ financial backing, military might and lobbying fronts, presenting a […]
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Paul Joseph Watson :
Global warming is heading to the same dustbin of history as Y2K, SARS and swine flu – another manufactured scare peddled primarily to make vast profits for corrupt elitists at the expense of the general public. The entire fraud is collapsing under the […]
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Barack Obama’s face moments before he went to take the oath of office.
This is a detail from a larger image, which reveals Obama is actually looking at himself, in a mirror.
As I’ve said here before, regardless of the intent, the official White House photography of the […]
LGJ: Wait, it’s not a derivative?
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[?]Submitted by Law of the Game
This week’s LGJ takes another look at NBA Jam and examines a rare example of a sequel potentially not being a derivative.
Read on!
Any post that is marked “Submitted by Law of the Game” and any content that appears on this blog is not legal advice. It […]
Will Currency Hedges Be Key in the Global Microtransaction Model?
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[?]Submitted by Law of the Game
I was chatting with Zack Karlsson and Stephanie O’Malley Deming at Game::Business::Law last evening, and the topic of currency hedging came up. The discussion was certainly interesting, but unfortunately short lived, and I thought it might serve as an interesting point to examine. While hedging has […]
Law of the Game on Twitter
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[?]Submitted by Law of the Game
I’m pleased to announce that Law of the Game is now on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LawoftheGame. While I don’t expect the feed to be extremely active, it will contain short thoughts from conferences as I attend them and links to the latest Law of the Game and […]
Nintendo’s head shrugs off new iPad
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The head of Nintendo isn’t impressed with Apple’s new concept:
TOKYO (AP) - Nintendo’s president shrugged off the just unveiled iPad tablet computer from Apple as delivering “no surprises,” and displayed as little enthusiasm for 3-D technology and high-definition upgrades for games.
“It was a bigger iPod […]
Tropical Angel taping
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Two videos of a remarkable water skiing game:
The challenge here is to guide a hot water skiing bikini babe through an ocean path filled with rocks, sharks, and special jumping ramps. One of the earliest games with a woman as the star, this is surely […]
A posting for Halloween Harry/Alien Carnage
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Another neat shareware actioner with cartoony design. Here’s a video of it:
Evil aliens have raided New York City, turning many citizens into green-skinned zombies, and it’s up to the one-man-army of Harry, a commando armed with flamethrower and rocket launcher, to save the Earth.
It’s worth […]
An Apple tablet for game biz
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Here’s some news on a new device from Apple:
NEW YORK (AP) - When Apple introduced the iPhone, it shook up the cell phone business but it also changed the way people play video games. About a quarter of the 100,000 applications that you can download […]
Doom video
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The game that really popularized the first-person shooting genre. Here’s a short video of it:
An alien invasion into military research facilities on two of the moons of Mars leads to a marine having to fight and stop them all. It’s a game with impressive 3D […]
NBA Jam Extreme video
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Here comes the next entry in this sport series, and this time, it’s in more 3D format:
Midway lost the license to develop this series to Acclaim, who took over some of the franchise, and frankly made an even more impressive game than they did.
Facebook farmers
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A new game available on Facebook lets you work in agriculture:
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Even while calling Chicago home, Laura Hawkins Grimes is a country bumpkin. Her scenic rural spread has three dairy farms, two ponds and a log cabin, all skirted by a white […]
OK peeps. I’m outtie. Headed t…
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OK peeps. I’m outtie. Headed to the OB/GYN for our 21 week checkup then a second BDay dinner with preggers. TGIF! #stupidcancer
My first guest post in quite a…
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My first guest post in quite a while. “The Cancer Lifestyle” now live on the @ImermanAngels blog. http://bit.ly/97TKBB
Love. It’s what makes a Subaru…
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Love. It’s what makes a Subaru a Subaru. Zoom Zoom. The relentless pursuit of perfection. The ultimate driving machine. http://bit.ly/d6RfUe
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
American Enterprise Institute scholar Sally Satel’s article “Kidney Mitzvah: Israel’s Remarkable New Steps to Solve Its Organ Shortage” appeared this week in Slate. Here’s a summary:
Israel is taking bold measures to address its severe organ shortage. With the introduction of two new laws, Israeli families that allow […]
Finance vs. Independence at the Fed
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Richard Smith is a historian who is doing a biography about my mother’s cousin.
Here is his timely piece about the corrupting influence of finance on the Fed — in particular about A. P. Giannini got Truman to remove Marriner Eccles from his position as chairman of the Fed. […]
The Ideological Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis
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This short section from my forthcoming Invisible Handcuffs discusses the ideological use of cost-benefit analysis.
cost-benefit
Strong GDP growth with weak fundamentals
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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported today that the seasonally adjusted real value of the nation’s production of goods and services grew at a 5.7% annual rate during the fourth quarter. That’s great news, but…
Rate of growth of real GDP (annual rates), 1947:Q2 to 2009:Q4. Shaded regions represent dates […]
“No rate hikes likely in 2010…”
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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
Despite the somewhat startling conclusion (at least to me), the implications are pretty straightforwardly arrive at. From Michael Rosenberg, Financial Conditions Watch (Bloomberg, Jan. 27, 2010) (link added 1/29 8am) [not online]:
Fed Funds Rate Outlook — A Taylor Rule Perspective
With U.S. real GDP growth moving back into positive territory […]
