Conspiracies!
It seems that all manner of whacked-out conspiracies were on display on digg.com today.
Among them was this article that asked, Were these brutal beatings inspired by video games? The article’s answer can be found in the last sentence:
Man’s inhumanity to man and his compulsion to pick up a blunt weapon have been around since caveman days. Given the recent tragedy, is the presence of baseball bat weapons in games like the Grand Theft Auto series and The Warriors an instance of art imitating life, or life imitating art?
That says, “No,” to me. “No, video games do not make people kill other people.”
However, as you can see in the first comment after the story, some flaming idiots) do not agree. I can’t wait to see what this clueless loser) does next.
Saw a great image of the famous Bigfoot walk movie stabilized which is very cool. Makes me want to take those images, create a stretched version of the landscape that is entirely visible, and have Bigfoot walk across that. Hmm…
And read an interesting post about how the NSA finds us and what software they use. Very, very interesting…