From an excellent Wired article on gaming:
Because really, who needs people? People suck. I'm joking, of course — but only a bit. The truth is that, in online multiplayer worlds, dealing with the delightfully unpredictable behavior of "real" people can be an absolute chore. Teammates fail to show up for a raid, or they leave […]

Caution: rambling post ahead.
I was goaded by Dan into reading an article by Robert Kagan, a neocon I usually avoid (by 'goaded' I mean that he mentioned it — I am easily influenced):
As good a foreign policy article as you will find in a US newspaper is a piece is by Washington Post "World Columnist," […]

Here's a report from the Beijing News (新…

Campaigning in the US Presidential Elections is coming down to the wire, and younger people of all nations and passports are as excited as they have ever been about the prospects for a changing of the guard.  Sens. Obama and McCain are running for the office of President of the US, but you’d think that […]

The District Court today sentenced Mao Chung-ming, 39, to three and a half years' jail for possessing counterfeit credit cards.