Shahryar Rizvi

Category: Politics

  • The Brainy Gamer: On face value images

    The Brainy Gamer: On face value images. I don’t know if RE5 is a racist game. I’m not even sure it’s possible for a game, by itself, to be racist. What I do know is that RE5 contains historically and socially charged imagery that seems irresponsible to me and makes me feel very uncomfortable. Frankly, […]

  • A good breakfast, but a poor supper

    From professors in my neck of the woods If hope for averting environmental disaster is not the right reason to live sustainably, what is? The scholars say we must provide people with reasons to live sustainably that are rational and effective, based on virtues rather than consequences. That means equating sustainable living not with hope […]

  • Greener grass on the other side

    From The Technium There seem to be about six species of collapsitarians: Luddites, anarchists, and anti-civilization activists (see The Unabomber Was Right) who are trying the hasten collapse as soon as possible. (There was a point after the hurricane season 2004 where I felt a measure of dependency and helplessness by living without amenities such […]

  • Impressed

    Logan + Sath Efriken eksent + Lois Lane = Lara Logan

  • Red Hat Chifas

    From Restructure! If McDonald’s is Microsoft, then Chinese food is Linux.

  • Victory for Size 10 dissidents

    SHOES IN THE AIR LIKE YOU REALLY GIVE A DAMN SIZE TEN UP LEMME HEAR YOU SAY YEAH POWER TO THE PEOPLE PUT YOUR SHOES IN THE AIR SIZE TEN HIGH LIKE YOU REALLY DO CARE

  • War, Inc. review

    We’re in a constant state of war, Hauser. We kill our brothers, complete strangers, the guilty and the innocent. We are at war with our own hearts. Love is a cease-fire that’s destined to fail. But, as I said, it does get us into tricky situations I finally got to see War, Inc. today. It’s […]

  • El futuro en sus manos

    I was both fascinated that CNN is using cutting-edge interface technology in their election coverage and repulsed that CNN is using cutting-edge interface technology. Their pandering to techies was just inane and a disservice to the technology they use If you don’t know what I am talking about. Jeff Han’s Multi-Touch Interface has been making […]

  • Formality!!! Flawless Victory

    Howard Zinn on Obama as president Even though Obama does not represent any fundamental change, he creates an opening for a possibility of change. Obama will not fulfill that potential for change, unless he is enveloped by a social movement, which is angry enough, powerful enough, insistent enough, that he fills his abstract phrases about […]

  • Decision ’08 Presidential Results