The Banana Peel Project

Last week I jumped on the interactive storytelling bandwagon, complaining that Bungie Studios’ upcoming release of Halo 3 was just going to be more of the same droll one-dimensional writing that we’ve come to expect from game developers. Now, after spending some time digesting Chris Kohler’s review of the Halo 3 beta, I’m convinced […]

Somewhere among the redwoods, it became clear to me that it was really, really hard to talk about mind.
Anybody who spends a lot of time thinking about the philosophy of mind will tell you that there is no way to prove that anyone beyond yourself is a conscious, thinking individual with a concept of self. […]

Before I take off for my weekend backpacking trip, I thought I’d point out this unfortunate AP wire release from yesterday. Apparently a Pasadena-based local news site has started outsourcing some of their reporting to India. According to the release, the editor believes that some kinds of reporting “can be done from afar […]