If Jack Thompson hates it, then I'm willing to cut back on food in order to buy a copy of the game when it is released for the PC. That's my knee-jerk response.

I've given some thought to what the non-parametric fail hierarchy should be:

Fail
Monumental Fail
Legendary Fail
Epic Fail

but that list is kind of sketchy at the moment....

Deathbed confession >> hoax >> bored now....

I wish they'd enforce the anti-bribery laws that corporate lobbyists routinely flout with complete impunity. At the very least, they should be required to match the dollar amount of bribes in contributions directly targeted to reducing the principal of the national debt.

I think my favorite XKCD comic is Conspiracy Theories.

That looks really cool, and blows the outdated fried onion blossom out of the water in terms of style points.

When net neutrality is crushed, all forms of net anonymity will eventually be crushed as well, as anon.penet.fi spins in its grave.

Since the main list of topics scrolls off the end of my RSS feed so quickly, I would like a way to subscribe to individual BB topics.

Hullo to visitors from Slashdot!

If that had been a legitimate DMCA takedown notice instead of a pre-notice shakedown, it should certainly have originated from the office of the SFWA Counsel; I have to wonder if the SFWA Counsel was even consulted before the missive was launched.

Given the unusual demographics of Burning Man, I'm a little surprised that there aren't several suicides each year there.