Archive for December, 2005

Patriot Act In Trouble

Friday, December 16th, 2005

And the Peasants Rejoice!!!

You may know that some of the provisions of the USA Patrio Act, are expiring on December 31. This is good news if you ask me, IMHO as the Act is far too infringing on liberties.

“We have more to fear from terrorism than we do from this Patriot Act,” Frist warned. I think Senator Frist is clearly out of touch with what’s at

And in the check your quotes department, you’d think the Assocated Press would credit Sununu with quoting Benjamin Franklin, but then what do I know…
“Those that would give up essential liberties in pursuit in a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security,” said Sen. John Sununu, R-New Hampshire. They suggested a short extension so negotiations could continue, but the Senate scrapped a Democratic-led effort to renew the USA Patriot Act for just three months before the vote began.

Check CNN & Slashdot:
http://www.cnn.com/…/index.html
Slashdot article

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Dungeons & Dragons Online Open Beta

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Fileplanet.com has a program to gain entrance to the Dungeons & Dragons Online Beta program. Non subscribers can get a low res client, paid subscribers can get a high res client (@ 2.4GB download.)

Should be interesting to see how Dungeons & Dragons translates to an MMO. I’m skeptical, since I think the magic of Drunken Dungeons is really about sitting around a table playing with friends, rolling dice (and drinking.) That said, Turbine is a great MM developer, even thought AC2 left alot to be desired. I have read that the game demands grouping, which is good because it makes it social. We’ll see, the games that are LFG focused always seem to have group politics, elitism, and long periods of frustration trying build groups and get into groups. Hopefully this isn’t too bad, City Of Heros worked pretty well.

That said, how can you not try out DnD Online? See you in Ebherron!

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