Monday, May 31, 2004
GTA: San Andreas.
Read about some of the characters here.
9:56:00 PM
Saturday, May 29, 2004
2004 WSoP.
Now that the World Series of Poker is over and Greg Rayner has been crowned champion (check out the final hand here for dialup and here for broadband), check out the air dates from ESPN:
Date - Time (CST) - Event / Entry Fee
July 6 - 8 p.m. - No Limit Hold 'Em / $2,000
July 6 - 9 p.m. - Seven Card Stud / $1,500
July 13 - 8 p.m. - No Limit Hold 'Em / $1,000
July 13 - 9 p.m. - Pot Limit Omaha / $2,000
July 20 - 8 p.m. - No Limit Hold 'Em / $1,500
July 20 - 9 p.m. - No Limit Hold 'Em / $5,000
July 27 - 8 p.m. - Two-Seven Draw / $5,000
July 27 - 9 p.m. - Ladies Limit Hold 'Em / $1,000
Aug. 3 - 8 p.m. - Seven Card Stud / $5,000
Aug. 3 - 9 p.m. - Pot Limit Hold 'Em / $3,000
Aug. 10 - 8 p.m. - Razz / $1,500
Aug. 10 - 9 p.m. - Limit Hold 'Em / $5,000
Aug. 17 - 8 p.m. - No Limit Hold 'Em / $3,000
Aug. 17 - 9 p.m. - Main Event / $10,000
Aug. 24 - 8 p.m. - Main Event
Aug. 24 - 9 p.m. - Main Event
Aug. 31 - 8 p.m. - Main Event
Aug. 31 - 9 p.m. - Main Event
Sept. 7 - 8 p.m. - Main Event
Sept. 7 - 9 p.m. - Main Event
Sept. 14 - 8 p.m. - Main Event
Sept. 14 - 9 p.m. - Main Event
11:23:00 AM
Thursday, May 27, 2004
May 26 WSoP Update.
Looks like CardPlayer is asleep at the wheel, but Gutshot has yesterday's update.
12:28:00 PM
Presidential Ambition?
The Washington Post has a story from Alexander Haig, former White House Chief of Staff, who says former President Richard Nixon joked about dropping a nuclear bomb on Capitol Hill during the height of the Watergate scandal.
12:11:00 PM
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Poker Articles.
Jay Lovinger has a couple of new poker articles up at ESPN.com. The first is about Lovinger trying his hand at a WSoP supersatellite, while the second is about the World Series itself.
7:51:00 PM
WSoP Update, May 25 Edition.
Only 83 players remain; read about yesterday's action at CardPlayer and Gutshot.
1:46:00 PM
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
2004 WSoP Update, May 24 Edition.
Read about Day Two at CardPlayer and Gutshot.
11:33:00 AM
Monday, May 24, 2004
2004 WSoP Update.
Read about Day Two of the first cut here.
12:05:00 PM
Words and Pictures.
The Washington Post has an interesting article about the intermingling of words and pictures in art, specifically in regards to the National World War II Memorial. (Link via ArtsJournal.)
11:27:00 AM
Sunday, May 23, 2004
Essays.
I've been searching for these essays online periodically for the past year or so, and tonight my luck seems to be in order:
First, The Myth Of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus.
Also, Media effects: Marshall McLuhan, television culture, and 'The X-Files.', by Adrienne L. McLean.
Another, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.
10:31:00 PM
2004 WSoP.
It's World Series time, and the Net and newspapers are teeming with coverage.
The first day of the Championship Event, the $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold 'Em, was yesterday, and if you want a write-up of that day's events, you can read one from Card Player; for a list of players remaining, visit Poker Pages. (Poker Pages also has a blog.)
If you're just looking for some overall poker coverage, check out Bravado: The Essence of Tournament Poker.
CasinoCityTimes has a story on Barry Greenstein, who they deem poker's Robin Hood.
5:35:00 PM
Saturday, May 22, 2004
My 2003 NaNoWriMo Novel.
For National Novel Writing Month last year, I wrote a novel with a pretty good idea behind it. But the story didn't turn out to be as crisp and clean as I hoped it would. Now I've been pondering what I should do with it, and I think I'm going to try to condense it from a short novel at 50,000+ words to a long short story near 15,000 to 20,000 words.
1:08:00 PM
Comic Strip.
Garry B. Trudeau, cartoonist for the comic strip Doonsbury, has a special Memorial Day strip planned. I'm anxious to see it.
1:02:00 PM
Friday, May 21, 2004
New Website.
ImageTexT, a new website in the interdisciplinary study of comics, is up and has a panel discussion transcript with Dan Clowes, creator of Ghost World. (Link via NeilAlien.)
8:56:00 AM
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
WPT: PokerStars.com's Caribbean Poker Adventure.
Daniel Negreanu, one of the six finalists in tonight's episode, has his own poker web site. Read about the pre-final table events here, here and here.
7:21:00 PM
Star Wars.
The Sun, a UK newspaper, reports that the new Star Wars movie will be subtitled "The Birth of the Empire." (Link via Slashdot.)
5:19:00 PM
Comixpedia.
It offers an interesting look at the history of comics syndication in the U.S.
9:22:00 AM
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
DNA Art.
Slashdot has a link about a UK supermarket chain commissioning an artist to make a sculpture from shopping carts of a double DNA helix.
11:10:00 PM
Monday, May 17, 2004
"Victim."
I have a lot of reservations about this word, mainly because it's overused and attributed to persons in extreme non-victimizational positions.
I offer a snippet from Gregg Easterbrook's latest book, "The Progress Paradox":
"(Martin) Seligman's third cause of depression flows from the second, being the 'postwar teaching of victimology and helplessness.' Intellectuals, politicians, tort lawyers, and the media have in the last few decades become ever more proficient at discovering victims. So many classes of victimhood have been proclaimed that, in cumulative terms, today every person in the United States may be able to call himself or herself a victim of something or other; leaving aside the question of, if we're all victims, then who did the victimizing?
Surveys, Seligman (a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania) notes, show that ever higher percentages of Americans describe themselves as victims. ... The We're-All-Victims worldview only serves to deter men and women from asserting control over their own psyches."
8:32:00 PM
Vegas, Baby.
Marc Cooper offers his thoughts on Vegas: America's Last Honest Place.
7:33:00 PM
Online Comics.
Top Shelf Comix offers Martin Cendreda's Dang online. Check out issues No. 1, No. 3 and XMAS Dang. (Tip to Previews Review.)
7:30:00 PM
Saturday, May 15, 2004
GTA.
Here's some screenshots from the upcoming Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
6:46:00 PM
Comics Reviews.
Poopsheet has a couple of interesting ones up. First, one on Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and the other on Slave Labor Graphics' Bear #1.
4:50:00 PM
Friday, May 14, 2004
Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
Looks like Congress is deciding whether to revise the act. (Link courtesy ArtsJournal.)
1:38:00 PM
Thursday, May 13, 2004
NFL.
The Jacksonville Jaguars web site has an article on defense in the pros.
4:04:00 PM
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Interview.
Comixpedia has one with Bizarro creator Dan Piraro.
2:49:00 PM
Comics to Come.
Over at Previews Review is a list of comics shipping this week.
Image presents the reprinted second collection of Kane. Check out the reviews here and here. (Links courtesy Previews Review.)
Lumakick sounds like an interesting comic, although it's a bit pricy.
The next collected volume of Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix. I read one collected volume before and I really like the story and art, so I'm sure to get into this and Buddha ... eventually.
11:35:00 AM
Monday, May 10, 2004
Online Comic.
Over at Reason, Peter Bagge offers his latest.
7:29:00 PM
Sunday, May 09, 2004
Interview.
Digital Webbing offers one with Dune series co-author Kevin J. Anderson.
7:25:00 PM
Thursday, May 06, 2004
How Did Life Begin?
Directed panspermia includes the field of astroecology, the study of interactions between interstellar environments and ecologies.
There are all different sorts of panspermia theories.
Many articles and interviews have been written about it.
3:09:00 PM
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Chappelle's Show.
The Chicago Tribune has a profile on Dave and his show.
Some snippets:
And this season, there was the sitcom parody "The Niggars," filmed in black and white, featuring a white "Leave It to Beaver"-like family whose last name happens to be that word. Chappelle played their milkman, greeting the family at the breakfast table by cheerfully shouting, "Good morning," -- well, you know.
For several weeks this season, original episodes of "Chappelle's Show" drew a bigger audience than original episodes of "South Park," Comedy Central's tent-pole series; airings of "Chappelle's Show" generally average around 3 million viewers.
(Link courtesy ArtsJournal; reg. req.)
11:19:00 AM
Rethinking Wargames?
But how will three-player chess fare? (Link courtesy Scott McCloud.)
10:56:00 AM
Funny Man.
The Boston Globe profiled comedian Lewis Black yesterday. I never knew that Black has written more than 40 plays. (Link courtesy Romenesko's Obscure Store.)
10:39:00 AM
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
It's Grammar Time!
The Toronto Star follows Lynne Truss's tour for her new grammar book, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: A Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation." (Link courtesy ArtsJournal.)
9:59:00 AM
Monday, May 03, 2004
Comics Association.
The International Comic Arts Association launched its website. (Link courtesy Bookslut.)
12:28:00 PM
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