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Also Overheard at PAX: Rated-MA Edition

Curtis Chen
August 28, 2007
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If you’re under 13, it’s past your bedtime. Seriously, kid, get outta here. “My name is Wil Wheaton, and Jack Thompson can suck my balls.” – from the start of his keynote speech (download MP3) “Any corporate lawyers here can…

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Overheard at PAX

Curtis Chen
August 26, 2007
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“This is the new E3.” – an attendee coming out of the exhibition hall “Have you had breakfast? You look hungry!” – the barker at the “Win Your Weight in Ramen” merchant booth “They think they’re going to be playing…

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Go See THE KING OF KONG

Curtis Chen
August 21, 2007
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Opening this weekend at the Lumiere in SF and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley: A most excellent documentary about two gamers competing for the world record high score on Donkey Kong! I saw a screening of the film today, and it’s…

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Izzard and Hitchens: Separated At Birth?

Curtis Chen
August 21, 2007
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Comedian Eddie Izzard on religion, from his 1999 show Dress to Kill: And Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, at Google last week: All things being equal, I’d rather pay to see Izzard than…

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If Business Meetings Were Like Internet Comments

Curtis Chen
August 20, 2007
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Thanks to Bryan for the link. As he says: “I love the attempts at spam that are stopped by captchas.”

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Dyson’s Fear

Curtis Chen
August 16, 2007
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From my friend Jeff: “The next word, but not the last word, in our little ongoing feud about climate change comes from Freeman Dyson: http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge219.html#dysonf“ I don’t agree with all his points, but he does set a good example by…

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Fight For The Future

Curtis Chen
August 2, 2007
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Reflect, for a minute, on who America’s grandparents are being taught to hate: Americans who do what Americans are supposed to do, what our founders implored us to do: debate vigorously and in the open, the meaning of the public…

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