Write your representative.

In a republic like ours one of the greatest things we can do as citizens to influence legislation is to write our representatives and senators to voice our opinion. For this hour in history I strongly suggest writing your representative in congress against SOPA. The Stop Online Piracy Act will allow the U.S. Government to use DNS blocking; the same method used by the PRC, Iran and Syria to censor The Internet and keep there citizens in the dark.

Please help fight SOPA! Fellow The Dallesians and eastern Oregonians please email Greg Walden. You can also sign a petition at whitehose.gov to let the white house know what we think about this bill and where they can shove it.

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Giving to those in need this Christmas?

One of my favourite missions organizations, Gospel for Asia , has an excellent Christmas catalogued , for giving to those in need in Asia. You can give an animal, which as Alton Brown says is like giving someone a small business . People can sell eggs from chickens, milk from goats, etc. Also you can give blankets, fishing nets, even a well. One thing that I love about Gospel for Asia is that they promise to send 100% of your donation to the missions field. So if you worry about middle men pocketing money this is a good organization for you to give to. Everything that you give to GFA goes directly to people working in one of the areas that is most untouched by the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Playing Mari0 on Ubuntu 12.04

If you are looking to play Mari0 on Ubuntu you may have run into a bit of a roadblock because love 0.8.0 is not yet available for Precise from the love-unstable ppa. No need to worry though the .deb file for Oneiric will work just fine. First download the .deb from launchpad, either amd64 or i386 . Then install dependencies by running. $ sudo apt-get install libdevil1c2 libmng1 libfreetype6 libgl1-mesa-glx liblua5.1-0 libphysfs-1.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libopenal1 libogg0 libvorbis0a libvorbisfile3 libflac8 libflac++6 libmpg123-0 libc6 libgcc1 libphysfs1 libstdc++6 Then install the love-unstable with dpkg ~/Downloads$ dpkg -i love-unstable_0.8.0~r1028-0oneiric1_<amd64/i386>.deb Run love-unstable on mari0 ~/mari0$ love-unstable mari0_1.3.love Enjoy what is possibly the coolest crossover game of all time.

Great Novels: Dune

I recently finished reading Dune as part of my quest to read the greatest novels of the 20th century . I have always heard that Dune was one of the greatest sci-fi novels ever written and it did not disappoint me in the least. Dune follows the story of Paul Atreides, a young man avenging his father after being defeated by a rival noble. Paul is kind of messianic character, fulfilling prophecies, leading people, all that messiah stuff. The world of Dune is quite intricate with many different factions involved in the conflict over the planet. The universe that Herbert has created is very complex and you feel that you are only seeing the tip of the iceberg of what there is to find in his world. Which I suppose is the reason for all of the books, games and other stuff that has spun off of this one book. There are several other books in the Dune series and the first one has left me w...

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