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Monday, December 19th, 2005

Munching pills in darkened rooms

Cognitive Daily ? Video games: Are the myths true? It’s a contentious issue – do computer games add to behavioral problems or are they a mere symptom. Every time I hear someone claim that violence is caused by games, I just want to whip out the rocket launcher and splash their brains on the pixelated […]

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Joe Haldeman – Forever Peace (2)

This is a story of many plots, ranging from the destruction of the universe, or a substantial fraction thereof, by nanotechnology, to modern warfare and social philosophy to moral conundrums of modern life – interracial dating, for example – and it tries to both set up these varying fields as enormous problem zones, and then […]

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Ursula K. Le Guin – The Farthest Shore (2)

The final volume of the Earthsea Trilogy, and, to me, the strongest of the three. It’s main theme, the struggle caused by the realization that life and death are intricately linked (a thought which is part of the dualist/taoist thinking that weaves like a thread through the whole trilogy, and indeed much of Le Guin’s […]