{"id":338,"date":"2004-05-27T18:28:57","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T23:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2005-02-04T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T07:20:08","slug":"play-with-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/27\/play-with-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"play with yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emogame.com\/bushgame.html\" target=\"_blank\">BUSHGAME.COM &#8211; THE ANTI-BUSH ONLINE ADVENTURE<\/a> &#8211; this has to be one of the best things I&#8217;ve ever seen. The intro is brilliant, and the surprise guests are fantastic &#8211; be sure to see all of their &#8220;special powers,&#8221; when using them, by pressing the enter key with each character&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=25764\" target=\"_blank\">Mac OS X v10.3.4 Update<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m still on 10.2.6 myself (for compatibility issues with my serial to USB port, for physical computing), but that doesn&#8217;t mean you have to be.<\/p>\n<p>But back to politics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/26\/international\/middleeast\/26FTE_NOTE.html?8dpc\" target=\"_blank\">From the Editors: The Times and Iraq<\/a> &#8211; has to be the biggest kick in the pants I&#8217;ve seen in a bit. The LA times has become the only voice of reason over the past while, and the NY Times has been, well, crap.  Does this mean they are ready to shape up their act again?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/arts\/news\/story\/0,11711,1224835,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Emin tent feared to be among Saatchi works lost in fire<\/a> &#8211; sad story.  I guess if Duchamp work was in the fire, he would say it was now &#8216;finished.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And now some blog features, from blogger:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kuwaitdiary.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kuwait Diary<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jerusalemgypsy.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">jerusalem wanderings<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/andykaufmanreturns.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Kaufman Returns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUSHGAME.COM &#8211; THE ANTI-BUSH ONLINE ADVENTURE &#8211; this has to be one of the best things I&#8217;ve ever seen. The intro is brilliant, and the surprise guests are fantastic &#8211; be sure to see all of their &#8220;special powers,&#8221; when using them, by pressing the enter key with each character&#8230; Mac OS X v10.3.4 Update [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-5s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":773,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/15\/america-the-beautiful\/","url_meta":{"origin":338,"position":0},"title":"america. the beautiful","author":"nathaniel","date":"15 September 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember when I used to post a ridiculous amount of links to stories, quotes and movements in American politics? I mean, Carine Zaayman even mentioned the blog, and its left leanings, on artthrob. Well, that was nearly three years ago (the blog will be 3 years old in February!), and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news and politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":225,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/12\/strides-in-the-race-for-the-democratic-party\/","url_meta":{"origin":338,"position":1},"title":"strides in the race for the Democratic party","author":"nathaniel","date":"12 November 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Bad news for Howard Dean = good news for Howard Dean? Doing Dean A World Of Good On that same note, here's an article that says Dean's bid for South seen as 'perceptive' - I actually agree here, and thought it when I first heard about his comments. 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Has anyone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SA Art Times - Cape Town, South Africa","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/art-times.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":51,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/27\/can-americans-do-irony\/","url_meta":{"origin":338,"position":4},"title":"can americans do irony?","author":"nathaniel","date":"27 April 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"As CNN begins to look more and more like Fox news (whose CEO is none other than Bush's cousin), I'm beginning to think there has to be some irony in all of this. I mean, they can't actually expect the American people to buy into this crap, right? 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