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Bill Hicks on Marketing

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:32:03 -0500

By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.

Tentacles of Rage: A Brief History of the Republican Propaganda Mill

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:39:54 -0400

by Lewis H. Lapham, editor emeritus of Harpers Magazine, September 2004

Be an Expert on Anything

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:53:30 -0400

By Stephen Colbert
As printed in Wired

Look! Up in the sky ... It's Al Gore!

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:08:50 -0400

Superman's dad predicted Krypton catastrophe, just like Al Gore's global-warming warning, says the superhero's former writer.

By Elliot S. Maggin, Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2006

Being Poor

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:17:07 -0400

By John Scalzi

Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.

Cargo Cult Science

Wed, 31 May 2006 03:39:59 -0400

By Richard Feynman
Caltech commencement address, 1974

Jon Stewart's Commencement Address

Thu, 25 May 2006 11:01:15 -0400

Jon Stewart delivered the commencement address at William & Mary College in May 2004.

Why It's Better Not Being CEO

Sun, 21 May 2006 17:57:28 -0400

By Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems

Pixar's Magic Man

Tue, 16 May 2006 12:52:17 -0400

John Lasseter and his merry band of animators have a way with blockbusters. The master storyteller explains how he does it -- and how he plans to sprinkle some of that Pixar dust at Disney.

The Mugging of the American Dream

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:50:47 -0400

The following is the prepared text of the speech Bill Moyers gave June 3, 2005 at the Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C.

The Unfeeling President

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:15:14 -0400

By E.L. Doctorow

September 9, 2004

I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve of D-Day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear.

Computer Games are Dead

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:15:42 -0400

From Interactive Entertainment Design, April 1996

By Chris Crawford

...computer games are dead. The dying has been a long time coming, but it's here now. Yes, I realize that you don't see the indicators as clearly as I think I do; a cursory examination shows an apparently healthy patient. But let me show you how to look more closely at the organism, how to smell the ketotic breath, the asymmetric iris that are sure signs of inevitable death.

Flippancy in Fantasy Role-Playing Games

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:03:57 -0400

by Greg Costikyan

Yes, it's time to venture into the dungeon again. Corridors of stone. Fearsome beasts with fang and claw. Another day, another gold piece. Ho hum. It sounds like it's about time to liven up your gamemaster's expeditions a bit.

Niven's Laws

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:49:38 -0400

By Larry Niven

Spoon Bending

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:55:22 -0400

A Really Lousy Trick for Really Lousy People

by Penn Jillette & Teller

Reprinted with permission