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Interesting article stolen from Neil Gaiman's blog on the state of the US's environment and the prevailing attitudes towards it: "What is really alarming is the intellectual atmosphere in Washington. You can attend seminars debunking scientific eco-orthodoxy almost every week. Early in the year, there was much favourable publicity for a new work Global Warming and Other Eco-myths, produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an organisation reputedly funded by multinational corporations."

Also see Stop Exxon/Mobil. The biggest oil company in the world continues to attempt to convince people that, silly person, global warming really doesn't exist la la la la. Amongst their other varied and evil deeds.

EGM gets hilarious kids to test old timer's games. Here's their response to Tetris:
Tim: Which button do I press to make the blocks explode?

EGM: Sorry, they don't explode.

Becky: This is boring. Maybe if it had characters and stuff and different levels, it would be OK. If things blew up or something or-

Sheldon: If there were bombs.

Becky: Yeah, or special bricks. Like, if a yellow brick touched a red brick it would blow up and you'd have to start over.

John: Why haven't I won yet? I've paired up so many of the same color.

EGM: Don't worry about colors.

John: I just lined up six of the same color. Why didn't they blow up?

EGM: Nothing blows up.