When this hit my inbox, I thought it was a bad joke:
She’s plump, powerful and ready to cause more controversy than "SuperSize Me." She’s Fat Princess , the star of Sony’s upcoming video game of the same name. Debuting at last week’s E3 expo, the colorful Fat Princess is a capture-the-flag game with a twist: you can thwart capture attempts by locking the once-thin princess in a dungeon and stuffing her full of cake, thereby increasing her girth and making her harder for your enemies to haul back to home base.
Games have sure changed since the days I played Nintendo and I’m wondering whether this is reflective of a broadly altered cultural mindset. Check out detailed commentary on Fat Princess ’ debut from Liss at Shakesville , Holly at Feministe , and Mighty Ponygirl at Feminist Gamers .
Of course, I’ve no doubt many will argue ’ it’s just a game ,’ but I’m honestly not convinc...
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Storm World Receives Starred Reviews From Both Publishers Weekly and KirkusFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-04-24 08:46:04
My new book, Storm World , will not be out for another two months yet; it hits in early July. However, the early reviews are coming in from outlets serving the literary and publishing industry such as Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews . And I’m now tremendously pleased to be able to report that both of these publications have singled out the book, giving it starred reviews.
The reviews themselves are reproduced in full below the fold; the Publisher’s Weekly ...
more My Last OZ Talk: SydneyFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-04-22 16:05:44
I’ve had a wonderful time in Australia; as will be shown in my forthcoming Seed column, the experience has also been very eye opening in a lot of ways. It’s winding down, though: I do one last talk here in Sydney, and then it’s off back to the states on that ridiculously long plane ride.
Tim Lambert (who I’ll get to meet for the first time soon enough) has already blogged the talk, but here are the details:
Tuesday, April 24
6:30 PM-8:00 P...
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Post Date: 2008-06-25 09:11:52
You can read it here . It starts like this:
It was one of the largest public demonstrations in US history. On June 12, 1982, an estimated 750,000 protesters thronged Central Park in New York City, chanting "No nukes!" and bearing signs reading "Reagan is a bomb -- both should be banned" and "Arms are for embracing." Some demonstrators called for unilateral US disarmament, others for renewing arms control talks with the Soviet Union. It was a diverse coalition that had been pulled togethe...
more Intersection Pick: EVOFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-06-25 06:56:24
Well I’m impressed...
It’s called EVO or www.evo.com . The goal is simple: To increase transparency in the green market, decrease green washing, and encourage corporate responsibility.
In response to this increasing demand for product transparency, EVO spent several years developing an objective and scalable technology to screen millions of products for their green attributes. EVO publishes and rates the best products (...
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