Trine

Anyone want to play co-op?

Silent Hill Origins: O.R.T.

Dwarf Fortress

Doing some reading on the DX

Got my Kindle DX. The form fact is perfect, but it feels a bit heavy.

PDF support is a bit botched. You can't zoom in on the PDFs, only rotate them to enlarge the text.

A very neat touch. When the device goes to sleep/turned off, a screensaver goes up with a picture and name of a great author.

Written out of Revenge

Written out of Revenge

Civil war is an unpleasant business and the story that unfolds in the letters and diaries of Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, the Canadian diplomat with whom she was in love for more than thirty years, is not a happy one. This was not so much what the publishers are pleased to call on the dust jacket ‘the love affair of a lifetime’, more like a fight to the death. Not that theirs was a tempestuous relationship in the usual sense. There were occasional scenes and some quarrels, but not, apparently, many. The struggle was between two complex and internally divided natures at war with themselves as much as with each other and constrained by circumstances largely of their own making. After her death Ritchie destroyed his letters to Bowen and some of hers to him. We are left, therefore, with her remaining letters and his diaries: she talks to him and he talks to himself. Like two soliloquists just within earshot of one another they seem sometimes to fall into dialogue and at others to be taking part in completely different dramas.

Let's Talk about 6-4

The tide of cultural war must be turned and equilibrium must be re-established so that we can look at the present with a fresh set of eyes.

West miscasts Tiananmen protesters

To the extent that the protests were directed at abuses of an existing system by an emerging elite, they were motivated more by outrage at the betrayal of socialist ideals than by aspirations for a new system. The mood in the square was at least as much conservative as it was activist.

Such arguments may seem arcane two decades later. But, in my view, they are keenly relevant. The styling of Tiananmen as a pro-democracy movement helped to miscast the west’s narrative on China’s past and future.

Not Everything is About Democracy