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Half-Life 2 Episode 3

Marc Laidlaw posted a plot synopsis for Half-Life 2 Episode 3 on his personal blog. He has a simple substitution cipher for all the names, perhaps since he no longer works for Valve. Reading it was very bittersweet. It is pretty clear by now that Episode 3 will never be

Waterlogged Book Review

by Tim Noakes Human Kinetics, 2012 $24.95; 430 pages ISBN 9780450424974 I received this book for free from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers Program. In the early 2000s, I was talking with a park ranger at the Grand Canyon. He told me he never really had to help anyone

The Long View 2005-10-04: Marvin the Paranoid Android

In a major break from John, I really liked the movie version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and hated the book. My wife suggested the problem was that I tried to read it as an adult, and since the book is literally sophomoric, you really need

The Long View 2005-09-29: Urban Legends; Theopathology; 1914+

A lot of the worst rumors following hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were not true. At least some of the examples of police brutality in the aftermath were true. Urban Legends; Theopathology; 1914+ No one doubts the Katrina disaster was mismanaged, but even while it was going on, it was

The Long View 2005-09-27: The Triumph of the Will

I keep meaning to read Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis. I bought a copy in 2011, and I haven't got around to it yet. I've been working through the backlog recently, so maybe I'll get to it soon. It is a part

The Great Year Book Review

By Nicholas Campion Penguin Arkana, 1994 696 Pages, US$14.95 ISBN 9780140192964 I picked this book up on the advice of Damian Thompson, Catholic gadfly and Internet rabble-rouser. It has taken me a while to get around to it, but this is a propitious time. This book is by

The Long View 2005-09-22: Bush makes the sun go nova.

NASA finished up the Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) in 2011. At this point, Elon Musk is showing them up. Bush makes the sun go nova. Does the president have any friends left? He has a popular base that is probably a plurality of the people, and a majority will