Month: April 2012

Nullsec space

this is extremely fascinating. the null sec areas of the game sound like the perfect place to send ron paul and his friends to.

The open-ended game is like a Hobbesian dreamworld in its no-security (“null-sec”) areas, that are open to scamming, murder, corporate espionage, economic manipulation, ruthless warmongering, and mind-boggling heists. But many of EVE’s law abiding players stay within safe high-security (“hi-sec”) areas that have mostly protected them from null-sec raiders, much to the chagrin of Goonswarm and its allies. Many of those in null-sec, including Goonswarm and its leader, resent hi-sec’s existence and aim to force their vision of the game on hi-sec players (who they insultingly refer to as “empire dwellers”). To accomplish that, they’re waging economic warfare and aiming to strike fear into all those who play in hi-sec space.

Portlandia

this show is very painful. not sure yet if i can overcome the loathing to like it 🙂
Portlandia
Portlandia is getting better indeed. i am watching season 2 now, and it is much improved from the painfully drawn out skits in season 1. far from being just a sendup of hipsters, it is perhaps one of the best shows at capturing the zeitgeist.

Giorgio Moroder

I have been looking for this song since 1984, when I first heard it. It is the favorite tune of my childhood. It held up well. Thank you internets!

2016-03-18:

“The range of my audience is incredible. I see young kids and older people, sometimes people in their 40s, 50s, and even 60s! It’s fantastic to see people around the world dancing to my songs.” He’s now 75 and frequently tours—this time with a laptop loaded with hits from his opulent catalogue. On being called the oldest touring DJ, his response: “I don’t know if being the oldest is a good or bad thing. But I really think it’s wonderful, if anything.”

The end of spycraft

that, and spring break ain’t the same anymore with everyone scared of being face tagged, eh? it’s called the transparent society and it is nearly here.

Busy spy crossroads such as Dubai, Jordan, India and many E.U. points of entry are employing iris scanners to link eyeballs irrevocably to a particular name. Likewise, the increasing use of biometric passports, which are embedded with microchips containing a person’s face, sex, fingerprints, date and place of birth, and other personal data, are increasingly replacing the old paper ones. For a clandestine field operative, flying under a false name could be a one-way ticket to a headquarters desk, since they’re irrevocably chained to whatever name and passport they used.

opsec is really dead:

the Kremlin was quickly able to identify new CIA officers in the US Embassy in Moscow — likely based on the differences in pay between diplomats, details on past service in “hardship” posts, speedy promotions and other digital clues,. Those clues could have come from access to the OPM data