EMI to Offer DRM-Free Online Music (Daring Fireball) First the "complete my album" feature, now the ability to buy songs without DRM. Steve Jobs is so fucking serious about cracking the lid off of the music companies' comfortable little world, and it's all because The People started voting with dollars for an easy-to-use, well-designed, OS-agnostic little app called iTunes. Incredible.
Religion & Philosophy For Gaming Dummies (GameSetWatch) Although I don't like linking to articles that link to other articles in this list (I'll always just link to the original), there is a comment on this page that seems to have a striking clarity. Ironically, I believe it to be written by John Hummel, whom I never liked when he handled the lettercolumn for the long gone gameforms.com.
Why Bush Won't Compromise (Peter David) A very short, very sad, armchair analysis of why Bush has absolutely no reason to let the Democrats' recent Iraq pullout timetable stand.
Another game night regular, Anna, posted a collection of pics here: http://good-times.webshots.com/album/558552980lOjIqZ?start=0
I will probably steal a ton of these for some future hilarious photo essay.