{"id":398,"date":"2006-08-29T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T10:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2006-08-29T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T10:23:46","slug":"now-with-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"[Now With Title!]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making progress on the deadlines.  Yesterday was particularly productive.  I am enthused.  It pleases me that I can sit down and write game stuff to a hazy outline knocked up months ago, and have it come out as something that I think is a damn good resource and an amusing read to boot.  I&#8217;m trying to push myself here, not settle for something I&#8217;ve seen before, and it feels like it&#8217;s working.  (Although in six months I&#8217;ll be cringing at it; that&#8217;s how these things work.)<br \/>\nLikewise, other work &#8211; it&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that I finish assignments at the moment I fully understand them, and vice versa.  Which is a nice realisation.<br \/>\n===<br \/>\nFurther to the Conspiracy Guff posts of the last few weeks about the Exploding Shampoo Plot, in my web catch-up I&#8217;ve found <a href=http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/007871.html>a fantastic article at Making Light<\/a> that summarises the whole kerfuffle with plenty of relevant outgoing links.<br \/>\nHighlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>El Reg points out the plot is technically unfeasible &#8211; liquid bombs are the stuff of action movies, not real world activity<\/li>\n<li>Paul Krugman in the NYT analyses how the Bush administration has used fear as a political tool throughout its existence<\/li>\n<li>Ned Lamont as target of three-minutes hate<\/li>\n<li>The Washington Post on the Bush admin increasingly avoiding all press contact and scrutiny (again, the story of this political era is the failure of the media)<\/li>\n<li>and a link to <a href=http:\/\/www.craigmurray.co.uk\/archives\/2006\/08\/hitting_a_nerve.html>a followup article by Craig Murray<\/a>, whose first article was the focus of my last  post on this subject.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check it out.<br \/>\n===<br \/>\nThe artist formerly known as Comic Shop Andrew <a href=http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42573152@N00\/224732088\/>as a zombie<\/a>.  More pics elsewhere at the site.<br \/>\n===<br \/>\nMore airplane madness:<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/08\/21\/1348224#transcript>Dude in t-shirt with Arabic writing on it forced to change before being allowed on plane<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making progress on the deadlines. Yesterday was particularly productive. I am enthused. It pleases me that I can sit down and write game stuff to a hazy outline knocked up months ago, and have it come out as something that I think is a damn good resource and an amusing read to boot. 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