Destructive Incorporated

I was thrilled when I saw Firaxis bringing out a new edition of one of my favorite Sid Meier's classics, 'Railroads!' Of course Railroad Tycoon doesn't quite stack up to the Civilization series, but it still entertained me for hours upon hours. First thing I did was look for some reviews of Railroads!, and found them quite lacking, which surprised me. So, trusting Sid wouldn't do me wrong, I went and bought Railroads! thinking I'd have a game to enjoy for some time to come.

Ever since I saw the first announcement of Flight Simulator X I was really excited to play it. I'm no plane nut or anything... I'm not even sure WHY I was so hyped up over it. Now, after playing Flight Simulator X for approximately 8 minutes, I am happy to say that I am even more excited about uninstalling it.

While getting my typical morning fill on Google News, I happened to come across Only hype makes organic food healthier.

Obviously the author quantifies 'healthier' far differently than the medical community, health experts, and myself. I would definitely tend to lean towards looking at healthier as combination of being more nutritional/vitamin filled, having less chemicals/carcinogens, and higher fertility. All of these health benefits you will only receive from eating organic foods.

Before I start with number 1 and work my way up, I would like to address a few things. First, this is my personal opinion of the game produced by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. As the title states, the purpose of this article is to highlight my largest gripes with the game and can be considered a rant. Secondly, the only experience I've had with the game thus far has been from the demo. I feel, however, that all of my points have nothing to do with the difference between the demo and full version and are therefore still relevant. Finally, I bring these points up because while I believe Battlefield 2142 might be the most successful in the Battlefield series, it will never be the most played first person shooter due to a number of small technicalities that DICE couldn't get right. I do offer solutions, even if obviously simple.

On behalf of my employer, I was asked to write a letter regarding the California minimum wage increase in my own words to an association we belong to that does industry lobbying and awareness building of its members. Because I believe this issue will affect every Californian, I would like to share it with all of you:

So I have the whole thing where when I find a word with which I can pigeonhole someone I use it extensively.
The term muggle is used in the harry potter series to describe non wizards/witches/magic people.

I have recently begun calling the end users who send me dirty dells all the doo dah day muggles.
They have not the magic required to fix their own pathetic computer systems. All they do that's magic is download the smileyfaces and pretty screensaver shiznigittycrap.

Also, the entire body of humans who make up the audience of a play have recently become muggles to me.

Right.
so.

Thepiratebay.com seems to have been raided! This is one of the very few large-scale bittorrent trackers left and it is a sad day to see it go. Both thepiratebay staff and a Swedish political group that seems to have stemmed in large part from them say they will be back up in due time as they will fight this because there is no legal basis for such a raid per Swedish law.

For more articles on TPB's raid, see their news links page.

The law enforcement seems to have taken large numbers of servers, many of which were not hosting anything to do with TPB content, including those used to host the piratbyran or 'pirate party' political party webpages. TPB is an arm of a much larger hosting company Rix|Port80.