mediocre minds great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

In her speech, she told a story about Florence Steen, an 88-year-old woman who stayed alive just long enough to vote for a woman and then died. If there's a better metaphor for her candidacy—other than Eight Belles, of course—I haven't heard it.
May 13th, 2008 / Binkley / Trackback / Comments

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Good point...

May 13th, 2008 / paladinz / Trackback / Comments

Age of Boobies

Age of Conan

When Robert E. Howard introduced the world to Conan the Barbarian, I'm sure he had no idea the character would be around over 80 years later. The fact that there is yet another upcoming video game about him means the Cimmerian is going strong.

Conan is an anti-hero, and as one, he generally likes to get down with the ladies. So it's no surprise that the game is supposed to have its fair share of nudity (I wonder if it'll compare to The Witcher in that matter). What's puzzling is that some gamers out there were so put off by the nudity that they decided to start a petitition to add a nudity toggle to the game.

The developer and publisher responded by... umm, releasing a "femme fatale" trailer.

Am in Bizarro world?

May 13th, 2008 / paladinz / Trackback / Comments

More site updates...

So, a few quick things I've been working on the past few nights when I've had a free 15-20 minutes. I added the author name at the bottom of the posts, as well as a link to the comments. Having some issues getting the right number of posts to display; I'll update that later. Images should generally be able to show up as much bigger now in image posts.

Okay, more stuff to come soon! I really gotta start hitting the css layouts some more.

May 13th, 2008 / paladinz / Trackback / Comments

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That's "February" in the last panel. I'm glad my high school French is good for something. (From Penny Arcade)
May 12th, 2008 / Binkley / Trackback / Comments


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A lightning storm hits Chaitén, an erupting volcano in Chile. More pictures can be found at The Daily Mail and Terra.

May 8th, 2008 / paladinz / Trackback / Comments

New comments system

The built-in comments system for Chyrp kinda sucks if you start doing anti-spam checking, so I have moved to an easy and flexible new method - Disqus. You can sign up on their website and post comments on any site that uses Disqus. You can keep one single profile, manage all your comments in one place, and I can manage it pretty easily as well. More on this later, as I haven't had a lot of time to give it a whirl. Discussions will only be viewable in the Trackback links (it's below this post). I'll add the comment count stuff a little later when I get some time.

May 8th, 2008 / paladinz / Trackback / Comments


Mirror's Edge: a new game from DICE.

May 7th, 2008 / paladinz / Trackback / Comments


Stephen Colbert's feud with Korean pop star Rain finally comes down to a dance-off!

May 6th, 2008 / paladinz / Trackback / Comments

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