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It looks as though we’ll be modifying the national anthem. Instead of "land of the free, home of the brave", its accuracy will be enhanced by "land of the free (those not under suspicion, who can be imprisoned indefinitely with no charges and no judicial review) and home of the formerly brave"

Greenwald:

From The Associated Press, today:  "Spain said Monday it was willing to take in five inmates from the American prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, three more than it had announced last month."  Previously:  similar agreements to accept our Guantanamo prisoners were entered into by the EU, Italy, Australia, France, Britain, Latvia, Portugal, Hungary,Switzerland, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Slovakia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iran,Iraq, Albania, Bermuda, and Palau.

By cowardly contrast, from CBS News, October 1, 2009:  "The House went on record Thursday against allowing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to be transferred to the United States, even to face trial or to be jailed in maximum-security prisons . . . If such a ban were to become law, the Obama administration would be hard-pressed to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by January as Obama has promised. Eighty-eight Democrats broke with Obama and House leaders on the nonbinding recommendation, an ominous sign for future votes."  And:  "other Democrats have made it plain they don’t want any of Guantanamo’s detainees sent to the United States to stand trial or serve prison sentences. ‘We don’t want them around,’ said Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev."  And:  "Congress flatly barred the release of any Guantanamo prisoner into the U.S. . . . and surrounded with conditions the President’s power to transfer any detainee anywhere in the world."

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Identically:  from the AP, yesterday:  "Five Muslims were sentenced Monday to 23 to 28 years in prison in Australia for stockpiling explosive chemicals and firearms for terrorist attacks on unspecified targets . . . .The men, aged 25 to 44, were found guilty last October on charges linked to preparing a terrorist act between July 2004 and November 2005."  Previously:  "LONDON – Three British Muslims accused of helping the suicide bombers who carried out the attacks on London’s transportation system in July 2005 went on trial on Thursday."  "The trial of 29 people accused of involvement in train bombings that killed 191 people in March 2004 has opened in the Spanish capital, Madrid."  "DENPASAR, Indonesia (CNN) — The first suspect charged with the October 12 Bali bombings, which killed over 200 people, has gone on trial in an Indonesian court."  "MUMBAI:  The sole surviving gunman from last year’s Mumbai attacks, a Pakistani national, on Monday pleaded guilty at his trial, admitting for the first time his part in the atrocity that killed 166 people."

By cowardly contrast, from McClatchy, February 1:  "Sen. Lindsey Graham plans to introduce a bipartisan bill Tuesday to block funding for civilian trials of five alleged plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001."  And:  "The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison." And:  "Holder also announced that five other detainees held at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be sent to military commissions."

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Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.

I don’t understand America’s terror of trying and imprisoning terrorists here, but that terror is exactly what the terrorists hoped to achieve.

Steve Benen at Political Animal:

It’s often called the "cash-and-trash" strategy — Republicans hate the stimulus package and "trash" it at every available opportunity, but love the stimulus package and grab the "cash" when it comes to creating jobs in their own states/districts. It’s been going on for a year, but the phenomenon keeps spreading.

Last week, the Washington Times found that "more than a dozen Republican lawmakers," all of whom insisted that the stimulus package was an awful idea that couldn’t possibly help the economy, privately urged the Department of Agriculture to send stimulus money to their states and districts, touting the investments’ economic benefits.

Today, the Wall Street Journal moves the ball forward with still more GOP lawmakers who say they oppose the very idea of the stimulus package, but who nevertheless believe the stimulus will help improve the economy in their areas.

More than a dozen Republican lawmakers supported stimulus-funding requests submitted to the Department of Labor, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service, in letters obtained by The Wall Street Journal through the Freedom of Information Act.

It’s quite a motley crew. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said the stimulus "misses the mark on all counts," but encouraged the Labor Department to invest stimulus money in his district, highlighting a project he said would create 1,000 jobs. Reps. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) and Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio), both right-wing opponents of the recovery efforts, did the same thing.

It’s not just House Republicans, either. Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Bob Bennett (R-Utah), and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) all told the Obama administration that the stimulus would improve the economy in their states by directing funds in their direction.

The takeaway here should be pretty obvious, and it goes beyond just the impressive levels of hypocrisy. When push comes to shove, and it’s their constituents on the line, Republicans know that the stimulus works. For all their palaver about how government spending is simply incapable of creating jobs and generating economic growth, we know they don’t mean it — we have the written requests for stimulus funds to prove it.

Also note, the WSJ report only covers Labor, EPA, and Forest Service. It’s very likely that many more Republican lawmakers who opposed the stimulus also reached out to other agencies, convinced that the money would do wonders in their state/district.

Expect the Democratic campaign committees to emphasize this heavily as the election season nears.

Both satellite records agree. So much for those who think local snow means global warming has stopped. It hasn’t.

An email from the Center for American Progress:

"Snowmageddon." "Snowpocalypse." "SnOMG." These popular depictions of the record snowstorms that crippled the Mid-Atlantic region in recent days demonstrate that the American public knows the weather is disastrously out of control. Instead of galvanizing Congress to take action to stop the man made disruption of our climate, political pundits are using these storms to justify inaction. According to the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, the "back-to-back snowstorms in the capital were an inconvenient meteorological phenomenon for Al Gore." Fox News host Sean Hannity argued "the most severe winter storm in years" would "seem to contradict Al Gore’s hysterical global warming theories." "Where’s Al Gore when we need him?" quipped Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Before the storm hit, the Virginia GOP launched a web ad mocking "12 inches of global warming," attacking Democrats who had voted in favor of climate and clean energy legislation. After hundreds of thousands of people lost power, several people died, and states of emergency were declared in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, Sen. Jim Inhofe’s (R-OK) family joined in the mockery, building an igloo on the National Mall and calling it "Al Gore’s New Home." The Washington press dutifully reported the "climate-change debate."

WARMING FUELS WINTER STORMS: "The last few years have brought several unusually heavy snowstorms as warmer and moister air over southern states has penetrated further north, colliding with bitter cold air masses," National Wildlife Federation climate scientist Amanda Staudt explains. Even as winters have been getting shorter — spring arrives 10-14 days earlier than it did 20 years ago — many areas are seeing bigger and more intense snowstorms. "The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30 years ago," top climate scientist Kevin Trenberth told NPR, "means there’s about on average 4 percent more water vapor lurking around over the oceans than there was, say, in the 1970s." As the Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States report issued by the federal government describes, warmer oceans and shifting atmospheric circulation mean "strong cold season storms are likely to become stronger and more frequent." A 2006 scientific paper by Chagnon et al. found that "most of the United States had 71% — 80% of their snowstorms in warmer-than-normal years," so that "a future with wetter and warmer winters" will "bring more snowstorms." This season’s extreme weather is also influenced by natural oscillations in oceanic and atmospheric circulation, including El Nino — unusual warmth in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that climate researchers expect may become permanent if global warming continues to rise. "Like it or not," says scientist Daniel Richter, "we live in the Anthropocene age."

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Cheney knows that he’s safe from legal action, so he’s now taunting us. Greenwald:

Dick Cheney went on ABC News this weekend and boasted of the role he played in ordering the waterboarding of detainees.  Andrew Sullivan has written several posts accurately describing this statement as a "confession of committing a war crime on national television."  Harper‘s Scott Horton identifies the specific criminal statute Cheney confessed he violated, makes clear that — as the Attorney General himself previously said — there is no reasonable debate possible regarding the criminality of waterboarding under U.S. and international law (notwithstanding the efforts of Politico and friends to pretend otherwise), and then asks:  "What prosecutor can look away when a perpetrator mocks the law itself and revels in his role in violating it?"

In general, people who commit felonies avoid publicly confessing to having done so, and they especially avoid mocking the authorities who fail to act.  One thing Dick Cheney is not is stupid, and yet he’s doing exactly that.  Indeed, he’s gradually escalated his boasting about having done so throughout the year.

Why?  Because he knows there will never be any repercussions, that he will never be prosecuted no matter how blatantly he admits to these serious crimes.  He’s taunting the Obama administration and the DOJ:  not only will I not hide or apologize, but I will proudly tout and defend my role in these crimes, because I know you will do absolutely nothing about it, even though the Attorney General and the President themselves said that the act to which I’m confessing is a felony. 

Does anyone doubt that Cheney’s assessment is right?  And isn’t that, rather obviously, a monumental indictment of almost everything?

Take a look at this cool video illustrating the construction (and site) of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.

I noted in an earlier post that China is working to implement 42 high-speed rail lines by 2012, while the US hopes to have 1 by 2014. This morning Bob Herbert uses his NY Times column to note the general way the US is failing to maintain and improve its infrastructure. He begins:

Gov. Ed Rendell likes to tell a story that goes back to his days as mayor of Philadelphia.

As he recalled, the city had a long cold snap with about a month and a half of below-freezing temperatures. Then, abruptly, the mercury rose into the 60s, he said, “and 58 of our water mains broke, causing all sorts of havoc.”

The pipes were old. Some were ancient. “My water people told me that some had been laid in the 19th century,” said Mr. Rendell, “and they were laid shallow, without much protection. So with any radical changes in temperature, they were susceptible to breaking. We had a real emergency on our hands.”

Infrastructure, that least sexy of issues, is not just a significant interest of Ed Rendell’s; it’s more like a consuming passion. He can talk about it energetically and enthusiastically for hours and days at a time. He has tried to stop the hemorrhaging of Pennsylvania’s infrastructure, and he travels the country explaining how crucially important it is for the United States to rebuild a national infrastructure landscape that has deteriorated so badly that it is threatening the nation’s economic viability.

Two years ago, a bridge inspector who had stopped for lunch in Philadelphia’s Port Richmond neighborhood happened to glance up at a viaduct that carries Interstate 95 over the neighborhood. He noticed a 6-foot crack in a 15-foot column that was supporting the highway. His sandwich was quickly forgotten. Two miles of the highway had to be closed for three days for emergency repairs to prevent a catastrophe from occurring.

These kinds of problems are not peculiar to Pennsylvania…

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Whenever I see the initials “MWF”, I think of “Monday Wednesday Friday” rather than “Mitchell’s Wool Fat” shaving soap: insufficiently attuned to shaving, I guess. I’ll work on it.

The Omega 48 boar brush did its usual great job, with MWF making a great lather. My Milord with an Astra Keramik blade smoothed my face, and I do like Alt Innsbruck as a finish.

My friend Mr. B. sent me a link to a Procter & Gamble press release, which, in telling of their great advances, admits to the rough treatment the skin receives with the “tug-and-cut” action of the multiblade cartridge:

Even with the tremendous advances in shaving technology Gillette has introduced over the past 20 years, most men continue to experience discomfort during and after shaving, especially when the blades tug and pull, causing a series of unwanted side effects. To help address skin discomfort and the root cause of tug and pull, Gillette Fusion ProGlide and Gillette Fusion ProGlide Power(TM) add a series of high-precision advancements to the breakthrough technology already in Gillette Fusion. Consumer use testing shows that the Fusion ProGlide family is preferred at an up to 2-to-1 ratio over Gillette Fusion, the world’s best selling razor.

I doubt that the advances amount to much. I followed the link to learn about Gillette’s new “MVP Fusion,” which (they claim) is wonderful for sensitive skin. But then I noticed a footnote, in tiny type, that said:

MVP is a color variant of Gillette Fusion. All Fusion color variants perform equally well on sensitive skin.

Hmmm. The great new technology consists of a new color of plastic??

I’m sticking with single-blade shaving. YMMV.

Amazingly tasty: very rich tasting with the flavors playing nicely together. AND: It’s very easy and quick to make.

I just followed the recipe, using mint in preference to parsley, and I was careful to use chicken stock, not chicken broth.

This one’s a keeper. Low in carbs and with the peas for protein.

I’m sure you’ve already thought of this, but it’s terrific sprinkled with shredded cheese. Or yogurt. Or—what the hell—sour cream.

I realize that one reason I like it—beyond its taste, ease of prep, comfort-foodness, and low cost—is that this is not a soup you could get in a restaurant (by and large—Calvin Trillin wrote about an amazing little restaurant that now, alas, is no more). It’s strictly something you have to get homemade, or make it yourself (which is a cinch).

In the NY Times:

There are times when governments fight to keep documents secret to protect sensitive intelligence or other vital national security interests. And there are times when they are just trying to cover up incompetence, misbehavior or lawbreaking.

Last week, when a British court released secret intelligence material relating to the torture allegations of a former Guantánamo prisoner, Binyam Mohamed, it was clear that the second motive had been in play when both the Bush and the Obama administrations and some high-ranking British officials tried to prevent the disclosure.

Mr. Mohamed, an Ethiopian-born British resident, is a victim of President George W. Bush’s extraordinary rendition program, under which foreigners were kidnapped and flown to other countries for interrogation and torture. He was subjected to physical and psychological abuse in Pakistan, Morocco and a C.I.A.-run prison outside Kabul before being sent to Guantánamo. His seven-year ordeal ended when he was freed last February.

At issue in the British court were seven paragraphs derived from American intelligence documents. The Bush administration claimed the material contained top-secret information and threatened to cut off intelligence sharing with Britain if it was released. Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton repeated those threats, despite President Obama’s campaign promises of openness and the rule of law in his detainee policy.

The paragraphs contained no real secrets. Mainly, the document — a summary of information that American intelligence provided to Britain’s security service, MI5 — echoes previous disclosures by the C.I.A. and Mr. Mohamed’s harrowing account of his ordeal.

But what it does contain is the assessment by British intelligence that his treatment violated legal prohibitions against torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of prisoners.

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Reported by Laura Bauer of the Kansas City Star:

Sitting frozen in the Kansas City crime lab is a partially gnawed piece of candy.

Police and prosecutors said someone spit it out years ago after he broke in and then damaged several classrooms in a local school. They’ve yet to lock up anyone for the crime, and the statute of limitations has long expired.

But here’s the thing. The candy contained a man’s DNA.

So prosecutors charged that DNA.

A critical crime solver, genetic science has clinched guilty verdicts in murder and rape cases for years. Now, as the technology advances, prosecutors in a few pockets of the country systematically use DNA evidence to file what are known as "John Doe" complaints, or no-name warrants, in less serious crimes such as burglary and vandalism.

“If you don’t stop the clock from ticking, there’s nothing you can do,” said Ted Hunt, an assistant Jackson County prosecutor who specializes in DNA evidence. “It’s too late.”

Since 2002, Jackson County prosecutors have filed 28 John Doe complaints, and Hunt said that number would grow substantially. That’s because police and prosecutors make sure they watch the clock.

Whenever a burglary, robbery or vandalism with DNA evidence is nearing its statute of limitation, police alert Hunt’s office, and prosecutors file a no-name charge.

By filing these complaints, and charging the DNA instead of a named suspect, prosecutors put cases on hold until they know whose genetic fingerprint they charged. These cases otherwise wouldn’t be solved within the statute of limitations, and the suspects would be let off scot-free…

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Via Open Culture:

Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein writing in ProPublica:

More than two decades ago, Congress set out to stop dangerous or incompetent caregivers from crossing state lines and landing in trouble again.

It ordered up a national database allowing hospitals to check for disciplinary actions taken anywhere in the country against nurses, pharmacists, psychologists and other licensed health professionals.

On March 1 – 22 years later – the federal government finally plans to let hospitals use it. But the long-awaited repository is missing serious disciplinary actions against what are probably thousands of health providers, according to an investigation by ProPublica in collaboration with the Los Angeles Times.

Some of the missing cases involve providers who have harmed patients – a nurse, for instance, whose license was pulled after she injected a patient with painkillers in a drugstore parking lot and improperly prescribed methadone to an addict who later died of an overdose.

The omissions took federal health officials by surprise. Only last month, a spokesman for the agency that oversees the database told reporters that "no data is missing." Another official said the agency had been "constantly" checking its data against state licensing board websites.

But Friday, the head of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) acknowledged that records were missing. She said her agency had launched a "full and complete" review to determine what is wrong and how to fix it.

"We take this very seriously," administrator Mary Wakefield said.

The new information will still go online as planned – but with a warning that it is incomplete, she said.

Wakefield and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter Friday to the nation’s governors asking for their immediate help fixing gaps in the database. It was a matter of "protecting the safety of patients across this country," they wrote.

This summer, the letter said, the federal government will begin publicly listing any state agencies that do not report properly. Wakefield’s agency also plans to hold training sessions for state officials and conduct audits to help ensure compliance…

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From Climate Progress:

The Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review and the Annual Threat Assessment just given to the Senate by the Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair highlighted climate change’s impact on military operations and security.  The Pentagon and the intelligence community are finally recognizing climate change’s threat to global security, as discussed in this repost by CAP’s Michael Werz and Kari Manlove.

At long last, the world’s top energy consumer is factoring climate change into its long-term strategies. The Department of Defense recently presented to Congress its Quadrennial Defense Review, or QDR, a strategy document that lays out the Pentagon’s vision for its missions and force structure in the face of anticipated threats. The QDR identifies climate change as a destabilizing agent and discusses how military operations should respond to climate-induced disasters and how climate change will affect military operations. The QDR’s recognition of climate change’s threat should kickstart an interagency discussion among the Pentagon, the State Department, and the White House on a comprehensive approach to climate change that factors in its ability to drive migration and destabilize regions.

For the first time, the Pentagon measures the cost of its own tremendous energy use not only in dollars but also as a strategic disadvantage. Only days after President Barack Obama announced an executive order requiring the entire federal government to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, the QDR takes an introspective look at the military’s energy consumption, especially with regard to transportation on the battlefield.

It appropriately tags energy efficiency as a “force multiplier,” and for good reason: Reliable energy supplies are of the utmost importance on military missions, which explains why troops protect energy supply routes and why support convoys are often the target of attacks. Reduced reliance on oil through energy efficiency will safeguard American troops, cut down pollution, and free up federal dollars for other priorities—fuel costs account for about one-third of the annual cost of deploying a service member to Afghanistan.

The Pentagon’s increased attention to efficiency wasn’t that surprising given its importance, but it also recognized that the U.S. military increasingly engages in disaster response, which broadens the military’s responsibilities beyond traditional operations. The Center for Naval Analysis convened a board of military officials in 2006 who concluded that climate change is a “threat multiplier” and increases political instability in regions that are important to the United States. The new QDR takes these arguments one step further by conceding the necessity of a comprehensive approach to energy security, climate stability, and even the strengthening of weakened governments in areas particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, because such an approach is in the United States’ national interest.

The QDR’s authors mention the “significant geopolitical impact” that climate change will have around the world, “contributing to poverty, environmental degradation, and the further weakening of fragile governments.” This acknowledgment is an important step in addressing the complex security and humanitarian challenges of coming decades. And it lays the ground for yet another step into the right direction: the notion that there isn’t a military answer to every security threat.

The intelligence community also seized the opportunity to weigh in on climate change last week with its Annual Threat Assessment, presented to the Senate by the director of national intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair. The DNI’s assessment draws on expertise from …

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From Glenn Greenwald’s column today:

Australia becomes the latest country — after Britain, Spain, Indonesia, and India — to show how civilized countries previously victimized by horrific attacks imprison Terrorists:  not by putting them in cages without charges or inventing new, due-process-abridging military tribunals, but rather, by giving them trials in their real court system.  Note, too, that the terrorists in question here were found guilty of plotting to bomb a large sporting event and/or kill the Australian Prime Minister.  But rather than panic and abandon their justice system, the Australians provided the accused with the full panoply of due process and then imposed a harsh sentence.  It’s a good thing Lindsey Graham isn’t Australian; he would have put his foot down and would never have allowed this to happen.

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Read this detailed critique of the Daily Mail‘s coverage, a coverage that depends heavily on making false statements.

Dan Colman at Open Culture:

Django Reinhardt, one of Europe’s finest jazz guitar players, would have turned 100 on January 24. It’s fairly astonishing to think that he mastered the guitar as he did, elevating it to a lead jazz instrument, despite being self taught, and having lost the use of two fingers in a fire. (More on that in the LA Times.) Below, we feature Django and his group, Quintette du Hot Club de France, performing “J’Attendrai” (I Will Wait) in 1939. As you’ll note, he only has two fingers moving on the frets.

Take a look (if you have a netbook).

DO NOT aim them at the side of your own car: egotistical and also fails to cover the blind spot. The Wife and I both adjust our car mirrors correctly after reading how to do it years ago, but I know that most people refuse. The reason, I think, is that if the mirror is correctly adjusted, it will show cars in the blind spot but otherwise shows nothing, and the latter thing seems to upset people: they want to see something in the mirror at all times, so they aim it instead at the side of their car. :sigh: So it goes.

Here’s an article with clear diagrams on how to adjust the outside mirrors—and why.

For the past few years, various carmakers have been offering blind-spot detection systems for their cars’ side mirrors. Often complex, these systems employ cameras or radar to scan the adjoining lanes for vehicles that may have disappeared from view.

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) published a paper in 1995 suggesting how outside mirrors could be adjusted to eliminate blind spots. The paper advocates adjusting the mirrors so far outward that the viewing angle of the side mirrors just overlaps that of the cabin’s rearview mirror. This can be disorienting for drivers used to seeing the flanks of their own car in the side mirrors. But when correctly positioned, the mirrors negate a car’s blind spots. This obviates the need to glance over your shoulder to safely change lanes as well as the need for an expensive blind-spot warning system.

The only problem is getting used to the SAE-recommended mirror positions. The cabin’s rearview mirror is used to keep an eye on what is coming up from behind, while the outside mirrors reflect the area outside the view of the inside rearview mirror.

Those who have switched to the SAE’s approach swear by it, however, some drivers can’t adjust to not using the outside mirrors to see directly behind the car and miss being able to see their own car in the side mirrors. To them we say, “Have fun filling out those accident reports.”

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UPDATE: Here’s how I do it: roll up driver-side window and lean your head against it. Adjust the left mirror outward until you no longer see the side of the car. As soon as the side of the car vanishes, stop: the mirror should be correct.

We tested it by driving on the freeway. When a car is coming up on the lane just to the left of my lane, I can first see it in the inside mirror. Just as it vanishes from the inside (center) mirror, it shows up in the (correctly adjusted) left outside mirror. And just as it vanishes from the (correctly adjusted) left outside mirror, you can see it out of the corner of your eye. With the outside mirror adjusted correctly, you never miss seeing the overtaking car: either in the center mirror, or in the outside mirror, or from the corner of your eye.

Try adjusting it, then take it on a four-lane street/highway and see how it works.

Looks like a very cool book. Reviewed by Kevin Kelly at Cool Tools:

This is by far the best guide ever written for designing games. All kinds of games, simple and traditional, but of course video games too. This fat book is packed with practical, comprehensive, imaginative, deep, and broad lessons. Every page contained amazing insights for me. The more I read and re-read, the more important I ranked this work. I now view it as not just about designing games, but one of the best guides for designing anything that demands complex interaction. My 13-year-old son, who, like most 13-year-olds, dreams of designing games, has been devouring its 470 pages, telling me, "You’ve got to read this, Dad!" It’s that kind of book: You begin to imagine your life as a game, and how you might tweak its design. Author Jesse Schell offers 100 "lenses" through which you can view your game, and each one is a useful maxim for any assignment.

Sample excerpts:

We must be absolutely clear on this point before we can proceed. The game is not the experience. The game enables the experience, but it is not the experience. This is a hard concept for some people to grasp.

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Lens #1: The Lens of Essential Experience

To use this lens, you stop thinking about your game and start thinking about the experience of the player. Ask yourself these questions: …

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