Game creators crave validation


Video game designers — especially those looking to produce something truly meaningful — must have some self-esteem issues. After all, their medium simply doesn’t command the same level of respect as film. Just read Roger Ebert’s creakingly unprogressive columns about the inability of video games to attain the same art and business status that film […]

Christmas creep misguided in crisis


Mozart, Picasso, Wright, Shakespeare, Dylan, Dickens. Point out one who doesn’t belong. Dylan, right? Wrong. That’s Bob Dylan we’re talking about, and he completely belongs. So when I heard he was releasing an album this Tuesday, I looked up everything I could about it. I was very disappointed when I found out it was a […]

Conservapedia hurts cause by rewriting Bible


These days, not even the bible is immune to an overly enthusiastic editor’s pen. This is the case with Conservapedia, a wiki-based online encyclopedia designed with a pro-American, conservative Christian ideology in mind. Citing liberal bias in current translations, the site recently started a project to retranslate the Bible. Self-heralded as “the watchdog of the […]

Podcast: Overtime 10/7/09


On this edition of Overtime, the Daily Trojan Sports Podcast, writer Grant Tunkel talks with Dan Greenspan of CollegeFootballNews.com about USC’s 30-3 victory over Cal this past weekend in Berkeley. Greenspan also offers his midseason grades of USC’s offense, defense, special teams and coaching staff, as well as an analysis of the Pac-10 up to […]