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Some things.
Feb. 8th, 2011 09:20 pmI am supposed to be writing something other than this post right now, so here! Have a post.
Save the princess, save the world. Or, well, play more video games to save the world. A TED Talk by Jane McGonigal, who is totally not just trying to secure her job by getting us all to septuple our playing of online games. (Although I think you could argue that fandom serves the same functions for many of us, actually. Hmm.)
Unrelatedly: remember how one time I was all excited because I had had the idea of a Stargate SG-1/I Spy fusion where the CIA sent covert agents through the gate to other worlds to quietly and deniably foment rebellions against the Go'auld and get in adventures and stuff?
So today I started reading a book all about how in 1963 the United States opened the first "Turing gate" to an alternate reality, and immediately started sending CIA operatives through to alternate Americas to quietly and deniably foment rebellions in universes where the communists or fascists or etc. had taken over. <3_____<3
(A Turing gate is totally not a Stargate because when it activates there is a red mirror instead of a blue wormhole! And also it has a different name. That is how you can tell.)
It is Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels (you can read the first three chapters online at that link) and while I'm only about 30-some pages in I am REALLY EXCITED. And so far I think the hero is a little more Jack O'Neill than Kelly Robinson, but I am actually pretty okay with that.
Save the princess, save the world. Or, well, play more video games to save the world. A TED Talk by Jane McGonigal, who is totally not just trying to secure her job by getting us all to septuple our playing of online games. (Although I think you could argue that fandom serves the same functions for many of us, actually. Hmm.)
Unrelatedly: remember how one time I was all excited because I had had the idea of a Stargate SG-1/I Spy fusion where the CIA sent covert agents through the gate to other worlds to quietly and deniably foment rebellions against the Go'auld and get in adventures and stuff?
So today I started reading a book all about how in 1963 the United States opened the first "Turing gate" to an alternate reality, and immediately started sending CIA operatives through to alternate Americas to quietly and deniably foment rebellions in universes where the communists or fascists or etc. had taken over. <3_____<3
(A Turing gate is totally not a Stargate because when it activates there is a red mirror instead of a blue wormhole! And also it has a different name. That is how you can tell.)
It is Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels (you can read the first three chapters online at that link) and while I'm only about 30-some pages in I am REALLY EXCITED. And so far I think the hero is a little more Jack O'Neill than Kelly Robinson, but I am actually pretty okay with that.