2002.07.12
Slate asks the musical question, "Who Wants This War? - And why don't we find out before we start one?"
I think our relatively "easy" military successes of the last decade may be leading people to forget how ugly this might be, on the warfront, on the economy, in terms of putting fuel on anti-US fire in general...
Game of the Moment
Adventure is one of the true giants of old video games, an attempt to make a graphical version of the old text game
Colossal Cave Adventure. Along with being the forefather of Ultima, Final Fantasy, and all of those graphical RPGs, it contained the first videogame "Easter Egg", a hidden room with its creator Warren Robinett's name. Warren Robinett put together an interesting PowerPoint presentation (Google has the text version, but messed up) that talks about the history of the game and Atari programming in general. Plus, Scott Pehnke has made a passable but imperfect Flash Port of the game. (And of course you could try out "Indenture", an excellent replica-plus-expansion of the original game for MS-DOS by VGR.)
Quote of the Moment
I'm gonna be free like a bird, and eat birdseed...or whatever, you'll see