My Smash Bros. Brawl review at N-Philes got a little attention from IGN. Of course any flattery I might have felt is quickly destroyed via a few pretty mean comments, but hey I’ll take what I can get.
Here’s a little of what they said.
It might seem a little late to the game but Nintendo fan site N-Philes has posted their review of Super Smash Bros brawl. Their review stands out against other fan site reviews as it discusses very specific issues such as Clones and the changes between Brawl and Melee that have been a source of discussion for our community.
Clay Shirky (author, professor) speaking at a conference about the effects of massive collaborative projects like wikipedia. A little long, but worth your time I think. I found it, like so many things, on Warren Ellis’ blog.
(embedded video not working, you’ll have to follow a link for now if you care to see it)
Most of the things Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price) does are pretty poorly presented, but I thought this was quite a clever little campaign.
After playing around on the site for a while I’ve come to the conclusion that spending three trillion dollars is pretty ridiculously hard to do.
Regular readers might already know the amazing story of my friend Matt getting slapped in the face by an old guy for talking during the movie D-Wars. It’s a subject that frequently gets brought up in my circle of friends because it never ceases to entertain us all. Well, as an update to that story, while working (at the same book store I work at) my brother ending up seeing the guy who slapped Matt. Mr. Slapasaurus Rex was buying a stack of DVDs, and it wasn’t long before my twitter was overflowing with the possibilities of what movies that man may have been buying. Here are some of the best ones.
Risky Slapness
Slap Club (if this is your first night at Slap Club… you have to slap)
There Will be Slaps
A Slapwork Orange
Slaps on a Plane
“Slap” (If this slap goes below fifty miles an hour it will explode!)
Being John Slapabitch
Frankenslap
Batslap
Butch Cassidy and the Slapdance Kid
Slap to the Future
Slappy Todd
Roboslap
Slaptease
The Best Little Slaphouse in Texas
Who Slapped Roger Rabbit?
Slapsky and Hutch
Alvin and the Slapmunks
Slapless in Seattle
Around the World in Eighty Slaps
Independence Slap
Superslap Me
Mission: Imslappable
Slapping Miss Daisy
Then Things I Hate About Getting Slapped in the Face
Slapship Troopers
Joe and the Slapcano
Once Upon a Time in Slapxico
Slapping in the Rain
This is just some of them. We did this for a long time. I should be more ashamed of this fact.
About a month ago I mentioned that I had been reading up about the Large Hadron Collider. Well, I just read a great article over at National Geographic that was written… well about a month ago. I guess I just missed it. The article went ahead and blew my mind all over the place. Physics is crazy and hard enough to understand at the theoretical level sometimes – I can’t even imagine understanding it at the mathematical level.
On what we’ll hopefully learn from the LHC (from the article)…
New puzzles seem a sure bet. After all, the universe doesn’t seem to be constructed for our investigative convenience. We’re big, sloppy meat-creatures who haven’t even taken a good census of the species of bacteria that live in our bodies.
Also of interest, a new cluster of stable elements has been found. Pretty cool.
So Mr. Stein has a new documentary coming out called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The fundamental argument of the movie is that those who speak out against evolution and in favor of Intelligent Design (ID) are “persecuted.” If you’re a scientist and you subscribe to the idea of ID you’re looked down on, if you’re a teacher who attempts to teach ID in school you may be fired.
There are already quite a few responses the the film that point out its many flaws, including one from the infamous Richard Dawkins (author of “The God Delusion”), so I wont spend too much time on it, but I did want to throw in my two cents.
If you’re a science teacher and you get fired for teaching ID in your classroom it has nothing to do with scientists being a bunch of heathen God haters. It has to do with the fact that you’re teaching unfounded, unscientific beliefs in a science class. If evolution turns out to be an incorrect theory (I don’t think it will) and a better theory is presented with more, founded, convincing facts than the theory of evolution (unlikely – due to the vast amount of evidence supporting evolution), science as a whole must, by definition, embrace that theory. Darwin was the first to say that if a better explanation comes along evolution should be thrown out. The problem is the more the subject is studied the more evolution starts to look like fact and the more ID looks like silliness.
If you want to preach that the earth is a few thousand years old and that we were all zapped out of God’s finger because the Bible says so, go for it. No skin off my nose. But keep it in church and don’t pretend like those claims have any real basis in science.
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