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Games are mechanisms for play. Play is not art. Play is dynamic, art is static. Play engages, art coerces. I think Ebert is mostly right, but we shouldn't give much serious attenti…

(The comment I am about to make is not supported by a link to a paper published by a widely respected, peer-reviewed scientific journal. You can safely assume that it contains noth…

I agree with the fundamental philosophy behind Doctorow's argument, but good grief: The model of interaction with the iPad is to be a "consumer," what William Gibson memorably desc…

This story was first broke by the New York Times: "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts" http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html

(I realize--hope?--that everyone else has moved on from this thread.) "what you posted is IMHO quite insulting to HN posters" If it is insulting even with my comment just above tha…

I only flipped through about ten pages of thumbnails, but as far as I could tell every photo on their stream is accompanied by a link entitled United States Government Work which p…

I'm guessing from the down-votes that folks have taken my "Perl sucks" comment at face value. (Or maybe they just don't think I'm funny, which puts them in good company; my girlfri…

Also, Perl sucks.

I remember first reading this not long after it was originally written. This article made a significant impact on me, and contributed significantly to my maturation as a programmer…

It's odd to hear all this victory hooting over a single hyperbolic prediction with so many glaciers in retreat all over the world ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_of_glaciers…

I agree. It seems you could have written this article during Jane Austen's time. "Children growing up are going to be SOOOO much different from the previous generation because the …

A quote from http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/GlobWarm.HTM The science, reduced to its simplest terms, is that carbon dioxide is known to be effective at trapping solar heat. So…