Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Maybe Aang Was the Second-to-Last Airbender – Holy … wow. I don’t know whether to be appalled, or ecstatic. A lot depends on who the underlying creative team is.
- Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition: Miss Cellania
- Conservatives Want To Deny U.S. Citizen Faisal Shahzad Miranda Rights, Ensuring He Won’t Be Convicted – Oh, Good Lord — I actually agree with something Glenn Beck had to say? Yeesh.
- LU Cancels Classes for Lynchburg City Council Election – Have to wonder what the Right would say if it were, say, a union calling a work stoppage to bus everyone to the local polls.
- Quote of the Day – I realize the “law & order” types have never been fond of the Miranda ruling (rubber hoses and the third degree, anyone?), but the current harping that nobody accused of terror — or at least nobody “foreign” (even if a US citizen) — should be Mirandized because it’s more important to just beat the truth out of ’em and then shove ’em before a firing squad, rather than shilly-shally about with “rights” and “trials” seems particularly despicable (and, may I say, anti-American).
- DORK TOWER, Monday, May 3, 2010 – Oh, Lord — how this describes so many games I have been in. (It’s not necessarily a bad thing, unless you’re looking to actually get gaming done ….)
- AFA’s Fischer: Any Muslim Unwilling to Renounce Islam Ought to be Denied Entry to the US – I think a look at crime statistics in the US, as well as a review of Western history, will indicate that Christians are guilty of most murders. I think we should force all Christians to renounce their religion or face deportation. (Just kidding, of course, but, yeesh.)
- The United and Continental Airline Mashup – What I note most about the (ugly) logo change is that it finally drops any of the “United [States]” red-white-and-blue imagery. Which may well make sense from a global standpoint, but is still sort of sad. As well as (as noted) ugly.
- Captcha Advertising – I’m appalled, but I have to applaud the guy who came up with the concept.
- Cuccinelli ditches censored lapel pins, blames the media for making them a ‘distraction.’: Amanda Terkel
- SBOE dare not say his name: “Obama” – Yeesh.
- Right on cue, McCain starts complaining – So is McCain’s standard now that folks who are likely to face capital crimes should not be Mirandized until they’ve been compelled to state everything they know. Is he actually listening to his own words? Jeez — what lessons did he really learn from the North Vietnamese?
- The GOP’s emergency-room argument lives – Money graf: “Sue Lowden’s campaign and its Republican brethren oppose health care reform, but they’ve endorsed the most inefficient system of socialized medicine ever devised.”
- Report: FBI Opens Criminal Probe Of Massey Energy | TPMMuckraker – Good. Nice to see some investigation into (if not, yet, accountability for) this sort of tragedy.
- Wash. Nuns Investigated By Vatican – Investigated for sexual abuse? Nah. Investigated for “feminism and activism.” Glad the Vatican has its priorities straight.
- US citizen from Pakistan nabbed on Dubai-bound plane in Times Square case, to appear in court – chicagotribune.com – Okay, now we’re in a relatively informed place to start talking about this case (on the presumption that the Feds have the right guy).
- The American Family’s Financial Turmoil | – Scary Infographic. And, yes, I’m doing better than “average,” but it worries me a lot, as a society and an economy, that this is what the “average” is.
- Is Walt Disney World feeling nervous about the arrival of Harry Potter? – I agree. While it may impact some folks going exclusively to WDW, if it draws additional visitors to Orlando it’s likely to add some attendees to WDW, too.
- AT&T asks government to create national censorwall and system for disconnecting accused infringers – Oh, that pesky “civil trial” stuff — I mean, if we can bypass it for terrorists, why not bypass it for important stuff, like people who download a song they don’t actually own?
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RE: A:tLAB, I can see a prequil, explaining why Aang decided to pout inside a block of Ice for 100 years, or one of his past lives, tons of stuff to mine there, a future life, or some heretofore unknon unknown that is the greatest threat ever, or Azula escapes from the island she has been banished to.
Based on the most probable, a Past life or Azula are the most likely options.
RE: The Nuns: That is very old news, the Vatican has been busily trying to force Nun’s that are too modern (i.e. not Cloistered) out of the church the the better part of a year now, heck, even NPR covered it last year. It’s all a part of Pope Prada’s goal to take things back to before Vatican II.
Okay, honestly, what gaming session *hasn’t* gone silly for at least 15 minutes every session. Though the bit about the name reminds of the Amber game that Randy ran in which Todd made a statement that he had come up with a name that none of us could make fun of (which, we regularly did with everyone of his characters) and announced that his Amber characters name was Demetrious…and without skipping a beat John Ellgood said, \Okay, Deadmeatrious…\. Much laughter and gnashing of teath insued and he never lived Deadmeatrious down for the rest of the game.
1. Avatar: we already know why Aang went all pouty in an iceberg. He was being forced, too young, to go off into Heavy Duty Avatar Training, and fled.
I think there’s room for some past life / prequel stuff, but, honestly, there’s enough to milk out of dangling plot threads (are there no Air Nomads left, and, if that’s the case, does that break the Avatar chain in a few generations? Where’s Zukko’s mom? Will Toph finally get a love interest? And, of course, Azula), that the story could continue.
2. Nuns: Yeah, old news (at least for the last year), but it bubbled up to the surface again just in time to give me indigestion.
3. I once made the mistake of actually giving folks their characters (each of which had been named and given a Mysterious Backstory). Everyone came up with amusing name variations, esp. Margie.
True, I had forgotten about the mystery of Zukko and Azula’s mom, there could be several cools things involving that. Anything to do with Toph would be A-okay with me.
As to the Air nomads? They would most likely be descended from those kids that were living at the one retreat, I am sure that as Aang grew up that he could more than teach them the ways of the Air Nomads, I had no worries there. It would be a lot like The UK where all the Britains were pushed out but folks living there now are still British.
Well, the interesting and unanswered question in the series is how bending is tied to ethnicity. The steampunk kids at the Air Temple were all of Earth Kingdom stock, so could they become Air Benders? We’ve never seen any of the tribes cross-train in that fashion.
That said, both the name “Air Nomads” and the fact that clearly not everyone of the Air tribe was living in the temples, implies there’s Air folk who have fled, been scattered, perhaps largely hunted down, but likely not exterminated. One could run a major plot about finding them, easy.
Mister Ister at Hearth’s Harth in Hithmist.
(that’s one that never gets old)
Heh.
Herth’s Hearth in Hithmist has a parallel universe analog in Doyce’s games as H’rsthm’r, via Margie.