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MOFT: Episode 1
by Deadman 11/25/2008 - 1:49 am
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Welcome to the first installment of My One Favorite Thing. This will be a regular (maybe weekly) post on the one thing I'm really digging at the moment. It could be a game or activity, an album or song, a movie or TV show, a person, a food, or just about anything at all.
MOFT (pronounced Mahf-tee) this week is Geo Challenge, a geography game on Facebook. The game is actually three minigames in one: You have to match the flag to the country in round 1, name the country just by looking at its shape in round 2, and then place cities in their correct place on the world map in round 3.
Like all Facebook games created by Playfish, Geo Challenge is incredibly addictive and made more so by the fact that you can see the high scores of all of your friends (as well as the top 104 scores by everyone on Facebook, though in my opinion it's full of cheating foreigners). I am now in a silent but obvious battle for supremacy with someone I went to college with and haven't talked to since graduation. It's quite clear neither one of us wants to relinquish the top spot as I've logged onto Facebook the past several mornings only to discover that the bastard has outscored me again, forcing me to delay all normal life activities until I have regained my rightful position as His Royal Geo Challenge Grand Poobah Master Bigness.
I will warn you: there is a downside to Geo Challenge. Every time I close my eyes to go to sleep, I now see various flags floating around in my head. Oh look, there's the Netherlands, or is it France turned 90 degrees? And look, there's Antarctica and Cyprus, countries so devoid of creativity that their flags are a picture of the country (and yet I heartily appreciate the approach of Libya - its plain green flag is minimalistic, eco-friendly, and best of all, insanely easy to identify when it comes up in the game)
And just in case you don't think there's not any practical value with Geo Challenge, well, ok, there's not, but it was kind of cool that I was in a cab today and passed a building with two flags hanging outside and immediately identified them as Bulgaria and the European Union flag.
Ah, my life is sad ...
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In the News
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Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private...
Huffington Post - A. Terkel/R. Grim begins report with:
WASHINGTON -- At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other individuals pledged approximately $100 million to defeat President Obama in the 2012 elections.
and report includes:
The source told The Huffington Post that they lamented the direction the conference has taken over the years. They said it used to be about "conservative strategy" and building a movement, but now it was mostly an "alpha male" spectacle focused on fundraising to beat Obama.
This is downright frightening.
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Brooks Goes All Revolutionary
If I could offer advice to a young rebel, it would be to rummage the past for a body of thought that helps you understand and address the shortcomings you see. Give yourself a label.
Effective rebellion isn’t just expressing your personal feelings. It means replacing one set of authorities and institutions with a better set of authorities and institutions. Authorities and institutions don’t repress the passions of the heart, the way some young people now suppose. They give them focus and a means to turn passion into change.
As if the socio-political change is a matter of removing one set and plugging in the other set.
In the end, all Brooks once wants to do is point to the kids of today and say "aren't they being silly."
What Brooks wants to avoid is the messiness that comes from delving into the change where the outcome is not known before one set out ahead of time. It wraps this up by saying those who see it in a different way are merely motivated by personal feelings, which is about as asinine as it gets.
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Komen caves, kinda, but still refusing to approve Planned...
As they say, you read, you decide. Preview:
They'll still turn down Planned Parenthood again next time because of the supposed pass-through grant. Unless of course, Nancy Brinker was lying last night. So which is it?
“This represents nothing new. We have known and have reported that they are continuing five grants through 2012. This is a reference to that. The second clause about eligibility is certainly true. Any group can apply for anything. It does not mean they are going to get anything,” Ruse told LifeNews.
Geez, is the 'surrender' a trojan horse? Or in fact, not even a surrender, since ongoing current funding was not being stopped. According to this, it's all about the future funding processes, which is still not committed. Hmmm.
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Senate Votes To Ban Its Members Insider Trading Not Really
Once again, as ever, this bill (as many legislative actions) provides only the facade that our Nation's leaders are legislating what the country needs and holding themselves to the same standards as their constituents.
In truth, the proposed legislation does not provide the same oversight and consequences for Congressional insider trading malfeasance, as the rest of our nation's citizens are subject to under current insider trading laws.
We need to stand up and speak out that this is not good enough! Please, blog - send emails - call - communicate the facts to the WH, media and your own local governmental body, asking them to pass a resolution to be forwarded to your state's congressional members as well as the WH. Don't attack either party as all are culpable. A bi-partisan coalition none should support.
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Komen Reverses Course
Well it took longer than I thought, but just a day longer. KOMEN has reversed course.
We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.
Nancy Komen Brinker goes on to deny what happened and continues to say they were misunderstood, but the backlash has been enormous, and they have reversed course and apologize.
The thing is, I think this will continue to hurt them, as they've been found out, they support policies that that hurt women.
Yep, sorry Nancy, your days in the spotlight are probably over.
I will update this with some video soon.
Read the article at http://blog.komen.org/?p=994
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Not that I'm competitive, but I'm going to add you as a friend on Facebook. (And then, I'm going to kick your ass).
Oh, D. I'm really sorry to announce that, with the recent election of Barack Obama, the United States has moved squarely back into the reality-based world.
bring it on, O! what's your word challenge score, dijamo? i rock in that but stopped playing because one of my friends is just too good at rearranging letters. she's like an idiot savant. it's quite disheartening.
19,858. Word Challenge Professeur here :) O is a measley 7,081. I am but a baggage handler in Geo Challenge which I only started today, but my competetive and compulsive nature will change that soon. In the immortal words of my penguin facebook flair, "Bring it foo!"
Whatev. I find that real world knowledge (as in all the places I'm going to visit) is much more important than stupid words. Words don't mean anything. It's all about experience.
Orlando, you are so right! Words are overrated. which is why I occassionally resort to sign language:
,,!,, (I learned that from Rahm)
PS I'm just bitter and cranky because you are an Air Traffic Controller and I am a lowly Baggage Handler :( I admit the Geo Challenge kind of rocks.
263624. anagram cyborg. 'nuf said. awww yeahhhhh ...
Not sure if you've noticed, but I'm totally coming for you.
Oh, I noticed ... and you may have noticed, I'm ready for you ... damn, i'm a bad-ass