April 18, 2001

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The official Starwars.com site has been redesigned with a bunch more Episode 2 stuff. I personally liked the old style better, but on the other hand all the new stuff on it is really interesting. Too bad it'll be one more whole year before the movie is released.

Open-Source soft drinks, who would have thunk it. Yes, now the open source license of letting others tinker with what you made in an attmept to make it better has been expanded to cola. So if you can come up with a better recipe, then you can say you contributed to making the world a better place to drink.

I just finished reading Orsen Scott Card's incredible book Ender's Shadow. It's a quasi-sequal to the famous Ender's Game (which is actually better IMHO), but not a true sequel since the story in Ender's Shadow takes place parallel to Ender's Game, just from another viewpoint. However it definitly helps to read Ender's Game first. Anyway, for those who haven't read the book, it's a really interesting science fiction piece about little children who are trained to be commanders in a war against an alien civilization. It's extremelly well written and will keep you thinking about war, humanity, strategy, and how the heck these little 6 year olds can come up with such radical ideas.



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