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The last week has seen a couple of interesting developments in the Tenet/Bush conflict. My predictions and thoughts about these will no doubt be as accurate as my predictions and thoughts about the Iraq war. Which is to say “semi.” Most recently, the Pentagon broke the news that Tenet asked Rumsfeld to illegally hide a prisoner from the Red Cross. It is no accident that the Pentagon made this statement right now; it’s the first salvo in an attempt to reduce Tenet’s standing in the court of public opinion. ...

Six Apart took another crack at Movable Type pricing. It’s a lot simpler. For non-commercial use, you can pay $69.95 to get up to five authors and unlimited blogs, or you can pay $99.95 to get unlimited authors and unlimited blogs. They’ve also fixed most of the license issues. For me, this license and this pricing scheme work. I’ll be upgrading sometime soonish, most likely. I expect there are still people for whom it won’t work, and I think that’s a perfectly rational decision too.

Book Meme: + bold the ones you’ve read{{ double-space-with-newline }} + italicize those you started but never finished{{ double-space-with-newline }} + add three at the end My own comment: calm down all ye Terry Pratchett fans. Yeesh.

The Chronicles of Riddick was not as good as I wanted it to be, but it was also not as bad as I feared it might be. It’s the perfect Warhammer 40K movie; there’s very little pure good in the world, the antagonists have psionic powers, and there’s lots of blood and guts. If you can’t take a guilty pleasure in spiky bitz, it’s not a good movie for you. If you can, then it’s worth the viewing. ...

Ginger’s last WISH (original) is up: Tell me your favorite war story. Why is it your favorite? What does it show about your character or the game/campaign you were playing? What does it exemplify about why you like gaming? My answer (from Carl’s UN PEACE game) is over at 20’ by 20’ Room (original).

“Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete (in the style of a hammer and sickle).” Angola (original).

My personal favorite Reagan tribute is Rob’s. Whose party I will be at soon if this damned file transfer will just finish up.

Would you believe there are no perl modules to perform astrological calculations? It’s true — I can’t find a single one. (This is a picture of me invoking the LazyWeb (original).)

So the whole thing where Bush says (original) “I’m going to say it one more time. In fact, maybe I can be more clear. The instructions went out to our people to adhere to law.” That would be so much more comforting if the infamous memo didn’t argue that it’s not illegal to torture certain classes of people.

In the spirit of Neel Krishnaswami’s recent post on sports games (original), today’s mashup is Hoosiers. It could be any sports movie, but I happen to like basketball a lot. I guess if you’re a football fan or something it’s OK to break away from the pack and do Any Given Sunday; the Mashup Ninjas will not pay you a visit. This once only. Hoosiers is a nice simple story. Washed up coach comes to small town with a basketball team and teaches them how to win a championship. (Mostly discipline.) He alienates people with his fancy coaching ways but it turns out that in Indiana, winning is more important than anything else. He also finds love and redeems the town drunk.