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Jun 28, 2012

Today on the 5: I'm a little over a third of the way through Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods. So far, it's a good read, if not up to the levels of praise I usually read heaped on the book.


Jun 27, 2012

Today on the 5: There's nothing I see as a bigger indictment of the state of our democracy than the constant use of labels as a way to classify people. You see it everywhere, even from people who are otherwise fairly intelligent individuals. Rather than engage in real discussion or objective analysis, we end name...


Jun 26, 2012

Today on the 5: I've been playing through the 2010 game Red Dead Redemption recently. As I've been playing I was reminded of an article I read around the time the game was released about killing the animals in the game. I was curious what my reaction to that aspect would be, and whether it's common to have your real...


Jun 25, 2012

Today on the 5: The new animated series Tron: Uprising premiered a few weeks ago, and I've been catching up on the episodes. There was a lot of question around how the series would handle being a prequel to the movie, and having seen it I think there's a lot of potential to add some narrative weight to the events in...