I know, I know, four posts in a single day, this is out of the ordinary even for me.

The Wired "Underwire Blog" has posted this about the upcoming Gotham Knight anime direct-to-DVD broohaha. I wrote one of the stories, as I mentioned before.

Incidentally, when I was in Calgary, I got a chance to catch up with Bruce Timm, who worked on the project. He said very nice things about my script. I'm kinda proud of that.

Chris Kohler has an interview with UbiSoft's Yannis Mallat at the Wired blog. In particular, Mallat talks about wanting to create emotional investment in games. In particular, he talks about what I referred to as "parlor tricks" -- ie, reliance on cinematics to give the illusion of investment.

He seems to get it, though in specifically game-design terms, rather than in story terms, talking about "building a relationship between the game and the player."

Here's an idea.

Hire. Good. Writers.

Or am I out of line?

Loretta Hildago Whitesides, on the Wired blog, has a nice opinion piece about Huckabee, creationism, and why the answer to the question does matter. You can read it here, and it's worth watching the YouTube clip from the Bill Maher interview.

And then there's this little gem. And note that this contradicts what the Iranians said earlier about the incident.

When in doubt, deny the facts.

Apparently, it works wonders.