An old TelePolis article about the Hisbollah ego-shooter where you play a freedom fighter against Israeli forces. Interesting. ¹
And here are some statements (also via TelePolis) from the new guy in the Pentagon, William Boykin. One quote translated back to English: “My God is bigger than yours.” Reminds me of the Spam I get. ²
Started a second attempt at rewriting the OddMuse parser (ApplyRules and friends). The goal is that people can write a MyRules function that doesn’t take any arguments (even when it may result in dirty blocks). All they need to do is either call Clean(”text”) or Dirty(”text”) and print “something else”. All the difficulty comes because ApplyRules can be called recursively, therefore the datastructures have to be local to the function... But ’local’ to the rescue! Three new global variables, and dynamic scoping (like EmacsLisp!) save the day.