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Serious games: tackling real world problems through video games

Games People Play SMH LiveWire | November 16, 2006 Game makers are tackling real-world problems, writes Chuck McCutcheon. IF YOU’RE a video game player whose social conscience isn’t fulfilled by … Continue reading

16 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Palestine National Day and Welcome, Ambassador

This evening I had the pleasure of attending a meet and greet drinks affair to commemorate Palestinian National Day at the NSW Parliament House, Sydney. Now a yearly event, it … Continue reading

15 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Middle East Studies McCarthyism

… Noughties style, around the I-P issue and academics’ positions on it in the teaching of Middle Eastern studies across American campuses. A transcript follows of a current affairs program, … Continue reading

10 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Kerala logs Microsoft out

The remarkable southern Indian state of Kerala does it again. It has banned Coke and Pepsi and now is pursuing a policy of preference for Linux over proprietary software, amongst … Continue reading

27 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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