Here's wishing a happy Mother's Day to everyone here. No Daily Feature today, I'm too busy between church and Morrowind. Funny, huh?

    Anyways, happy Mother's Day! Don't eat too much like I just did!

 

    Darn relatives always trying to kill me by feeding me.

    Don't Shoot the Fish   Now, I've got a question for ESRB (the darn games raters). Why is itthat for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune there is gratuitous bloodshed ofhuman life, but the fish cannot be killed? Why? Because you said itwould affect the rating. Is a totally realistic game M just because youcan kill anything that walks, or due to its actual content? Why is itthat anything goes so long as it's not so "insensitive", but a T gamecan have a body count of 10,000...

Do you know copy-pasting from Dreamweaver will not save tables unless you copy/paste the HTML code. I hate that. 

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53FreeInkscape and Xara tie for free quality, Ill...

    On Desire for God   I believe that men are born with a desire for God that nothing else canfill. Granted, that's also Blaise Pascal's position, but ignore therelation between the guy my favorite programming language is namedafter and the article topic. I believe that when the world "gets usdown", it's due to this undiagnosed thirst. Yes, I do believe that Godis the answer to all our problems.

    I alsobelieve that this refutes evolution nicely...

    Now, I know Stardock has the blacklist feature for a reason, but seriously, when will you guys learn? If I don't blacklist you, why do you blacklist me? Do I have a tendendcy to spam comments? Do I have a tendency to be vulgar, profane, or crude? What is it about me that you really hate that actually warrants blacklisting me from your articles? Can you not stand my opinions? If so, tell me, argue with me. Heck, slander me for all I care, but blacklisting is a plain piece of cr...

    On Time 

            What is it?   Now, this is a mixed philosophy-religion article.  So give me someslack here. Nobody will agree with all of this. Or almost nobody.

   Time is one-dimensional for us humans. In fact, we can only continueonwards, so it could be argued it's non-dimensional, merely aninfinitesmal blip on a timeline. This is how I believe we are not onlypredestined, but als...

    On Raytracing       Raytracing refers to the process of using a computerto render an image, sometimes photorealistic, from an array of things.Raytracing is a very simple task, but eats up a fair deal of computerpower. It doesn't requre a terribly great computer, though, since itmerely runs lots of commands. This allows a raytracing engine to renderawesome sights on pretty much any computer. I'd recommend it for allpeople who need an image.

&nbs...

    Now, somebody tell me if this is a medical problem, or just my dehydration (yes, I spend 80% of my time more or less dehydrated, but I do try not to be). Every morning (for the past four days), when I wake up, my calves cramp. I've torn my calf within the past year (six months ago), and these cramps have tear-like syndromes for about two or three hours, but I think that's just the severity. They're extremely painful, and used to be limited to occuring in my right calf (the one...

    Why is being a gamer bad?                      It makes me sad when there isdiscrimination against the innocent.   Now, I may be quoting out of context here, but I have been told that asa gamer I have no place on JU, and I should crawl back into the sameold gaming sites I frequent. I believe that there is nothing wrong withbeing a gamer, it is simply a part of my identity. ...

    Welcome to my first Daily Features article. I'll start off by writing an article describing daily features.

    On Daily Features   Anyways, now that I have your attention, I will describe dailyfeatures. Daily features are a compilation of three or more articles.Three types of articles are considered for a Daily Feature. The firstis an opinion article. Basically it's the "On" article I'm fond ofwriting. Generally two paragraphs, with an aim for...

    I sat up in bed. The visions of the future... or were they the past? were too much for me. The war did this to everyone, but I knew for sure that I was never meant for this. But I fought on. Day after day, hiding, running, shooting. A warrior's life. A'na'la. I haven't used my native language in a long time, but that was the one word that applies to a warrior's life. It's actually three words, combined for one meaning.

    A means "the" in our language. It's ...

    Swearing is not a sin. It is, however, an annoyance to some of us who learn more than five adjectives, nouns, verbs, and adverbs. If you don't know a word to use, use a dictionary.

    Swearing also devalues your opinion. When I find that someone swears, I view it as a negative mark on their maturity, as they have no real self-control. It's one thing in conversation, but it's entirely different when you can write stuff down. You cannot convince me that you ca...

    Ok. Gonna try to keep it clean.

    There is nothing in having many articles written that hurts you. If the articles have a point, regardless of how strong, state a fact or opinion, tell a story, do not plagarize, are not spam, and are not mandatory reading, you do not suffer at all from some people posting ten thousand articles a day. So what if it gets pushed out of the recent articles list? Some of us actually put links up at different places to advertise....

    The Quran condemns the "munafig", those who claim to be believers and peacemakers and are not. Do all the radical extremists realize that by your actions, you give all of your religion a bad name?

    Now, I'll admit I'm not Islamic, I'm a white-as-bleach Christian, but bear with me here. When one complains that they are victim to persecution, if they retaliate with bloodshed and killings, will it help anything?

    The simple answer is no. ...

    Hypocrisy is turning a blind eye to wrongs that should be punished when you punish them elsewhere. Hypocrisy is looking first for other's flaws. Hypocrisy is not judging.

    Hypocrisy is a common affliction. It's so nice if we're the perfect ones. Isn't it? But also, consider this. If you, say, write an article on how others write too many articles, then you are flooding out good articles with your crazy nonsense ones. Even if you feel that the flooding arti...