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oscar's blog: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:00:37 -0700

at Wired.com.

oscar's blog: Sweded

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:42:30 -0800

Sweded movies from Be Kind Rewind. Fan made Sweded movies! Moar.

oscar's blog: Bought and Paid For

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:12:49 -0800

Your tax dollars at work. Over five years, Cal Poly would receive $5.9 million from the Saudi government to create an engineering curriculum, build labs and train teachers in Jubail, a sprawling oil center on the Persian Gulf. Only men would qualify to take or teach engineering classes, although the campus has separate classes in other [...]

oscar's blog: Tales of Change

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:48:23 -0800

The true story of Marjane Satrapi is told in animated form in Persepolis as she grows from a child to a woman during the fall of the Shah and the Islamic Revolution. Nominated for an Academy Award and deservedly so. The somewhat based on a true story of an oilman’s rise and fall into madness [...]

oscar's blog: Free music

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:29:03 -0800

Well since NIN’s Ghosts I-IV server is completely trashed (yes I made my saving throw against the Ultra version successfully), here’s a link to more free music: The Charlatans new album up for download at XFM. And once NIN’s download server comes back you can also grab the first part of their new instrumental [...]

oscar's blog: The best high

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:48:21 -0800

My art teacher said I had good ellipses. I’ve missed educational compliments… lol. I guess I am asian after all.

oscar's blog: Yelpin

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:34:56 -0800

First to review!

oscar's blog: The redefinition of autism

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:20:11 -0800

Technology helping bridge the divide between autistics and neurotypicals (us). From Wired of course: Baggs is part of an increasingly visible and highly networked community of autistics. Over the past decade, this group has benefited enormously from the Internet as well as innovations like type-to-speech software. Baggs may never have considered herself trapped in her [...]

oscar's blog: No Country for Old Men

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:24:03 -0800

Damn. I guess I have to read the rest of Cormac McCarthy’s books. That was an excellent movie.

oscar's blog: Dumbledore is a pimp and drives an R8

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:38:31 -0800

LOL: Irish actor Michael Gambon, 67, who plays the wise old Hogwarts headmaster, is involved in an unusual love triangle with his wife of 45 years, Lady Anne Gambon, and movie set designer Philippa Hart, who’s 25 years his junior and gave birth to his baby last May - a situation apparently being tolerated by both [...]