It took 10 days and over 2000 written complaints to finally see some action out of EA about their horrendous DRM for Spore. The word on the street is that EA will be releasing a patch that will allow the user to deactivate a installation when they uninstall the game.

This to me is a half hearten approach to resolving the issue on hand. For one it doesn’t address the spyware that is installed with Spore and two it just adds another step to the hoops you have to jump through to use the game you paid $50 for.

The number of …

I have taken the New York Yankee Stadium story as an example of how differently a story can be portrayed for its various aspects. The range of the polarity between advocacy and dissent is usually larger than what the major national sources portray. Here I found varying degrees in an argument on the issue of the New York Yankee Stadium. Some project a story of building a good community, some project a story of profiteering off taxpayer money, while even others express a dissent towards …

“History has generally been written by the victors”, Ronald Takaki expresses in his book, and he hopes to bring about another form of telling history - through the stories of individuals who have lived and experienced life in a past time. In this book, Takaki gathered stories that are connected in themes and brought them together through written essays in between the testimonies.

In these essay introductions, Takaki writes a different version of history that isn’t the same traditional history taught in our public schools. Reading it blithely, some would …

I’m sure that it is not only Target who quizzes applicants in order to get a sample of his or her personality. In fact, many big stores and companies who are hiring general labor are beginning to add a personality test as a part of their application.

Some of these questions are no brainers, such as “Do you smoke Marijuana?” Well, as one may guess, if you answer “yes” to that question, chances are you aren’t going to get hired. Here are some other ones that may amuse you. The questions have answers that are multiple choice as well as true/false.

With the release of possibly the most anticipated game ever (at least until SC3 And D3 comes out) came the release of the largest firestorm of 1 star consumer ratings I have ever seen. On Amazon.com the Customer Reviews totals for Spore as of today are:

• 5 star: 71
• 4 star: 49
• 3 star: 21
• 2 star: 56
• 1 star: 2005(and climbing fast)

As far as I can tell from my research, EA has yet to provide a legitimate response to the reviews. They probably wont any time soon seeing how they know the game will …