Heard this on the (podcasted) radio: Video-Game Designers Target World Peace
A group of game designers says taht video-game technology can help save the world by raising humanitarian awareness. The creators of free educational games such as Darfur is Dying and PeaceMaker met with humanitarian activists during the third-annual Games for Change conference in New York.
When I was in college, a neighbor in the fraternity house had a game on his Mac where one played the Prime Minister of Israel trying to bring about Middle East peace. Nuclear war, terrorism, arms embargoes and all the rest were part of the equation. It wasn’t an easy game. It sounds like it was a precursor to the modern Peacemaker.
It sounds like this was a pretty interesting conference.
| In addition to being the executive producer of the world’s most popular comic book fan site and community, my boy Jonah was, once upon a time, a radio producer in the LA market. This week, he returned to radio, when stations from Albuquerque and Los Angeles interviewed him about the upcoming Superman Returns movie.
You can check out Jonah’s interview by looking up the 7 o’clock hour of the Bill Handel show for KFI AM 640 on Tuesday, June 27 either on the KFI site or via the podcast directory in iTunes. |
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They made me laugh.
I have it on good authority that the kitten on the left plays an undead rogue in WoW.
Here’s a sampling of the harder questions from the official sample test.
You answered 85% of questions correctly.
The most amazing discussions I’ve ever had about what the Declaration of Independence and constitution really mean were with Egyptians in Cairo, who all but wept talking about a kind of freedom they understood better than most who are born into it ever will, and which they had no expectation of ever having for their countrymen.
The least we can do as Americans, besides vote, is to be able to pass the immigration tests ourselves.
Whoops, forgot to ever look up the judges’ comments for the 2005 award winners, which are now available.
Belatedly, here they are for us at the Hesperia Star:
3B Best Feature Story
SECOND PLACE: Beau Yarbrough, Hesperia Star
They Ain’t Scared of No Ghost
COMMENTS: This was a whimsical and well-told story with nice details.
6B Best Law Enforcement/Legal Affairs Story
SECOND PLACE: Beau Yarbrough, Hesperia Star
High-flying in Hesperia
COMMENTS: Can a helicopter have a personality? This one does. The writer takes us along for a vivid ride and makes us feel a part of the air support team.
9B Best Government/Political Story
THIRD PLACE: Beau Yarbrough, Hesperia Star
Is the Hesperia casino really ‘terminated’?
COMMENTS: Well written.
29 Best News photo
THIRD PLACE: Peter Day, Hesperia Star
“Pacific Storm”
CATEGORY COMMENTS: Again it’s worth repeating what outstanding overall work in this category, it’s nice to see so many great photos in the contest. The first place photo is a standout in a category with a lot of great photos. The image of the sheriff wiping away the widow’s tear with a single finger is a real genuine moment. It’s a moving image.
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