LITANY AGAINST FEAR
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
From Frank Herbert’s Dune
Wow, does this take me back. Senior year of high school, Yvonne Husbands introduced me to Dune. I used to have the above committed to memory. It is a useful little mantra.
Thanks to David for jogging my memory.
Your average gamer these days is in his late 20s—young enough to still find new ways to destroy brain cells, old enough to worry about bills and 401ks, and wise enough to reminisce about the good ol’ days of videogames. But was the age of Pong, Atari, Mattel handheld football, and Donkey Kong really all that great, or are we just blinded by fuzzy, warm nostalgia?
That’s the question we asked—and answered—back in the November issue of EGM, in which we rounded up nine children of the PlayStation generation—ages 9 to 12—and forced them to play a variety of titles from the late’70s to the mid-’80s. Now read what the little scamps had to say, plus check their comments on a bonus game—Super Mario Bros.—that got cut from the EGM article. If you grew up with these classics, prepare to feel very old.
This article cracked me up. Talk about misspent youth! I’d like to see a follow-up in 20 years when PS2 and XBox are considered sooooo old school. 
Marvin Lewis found them to be the best use of his time during the 2003 combine, his first as a head coach. He found that he learned much more about the players he was considering for the Cincinnati Bengals from those sessions than he did from any other form of the vast research he studied. He received the answer to the most essential question he had about each candidate’s personality.
“Can they communicate?” Lewis asked a Cincinnati reporter rhetorically. “Can they talk about who they are and what they do?”
He is proud of the fact he “personally spent considerable time” with the Bengals’ first six draft picks. And he should be. The Bengals had by far one of the NFL’s best drafts last year. Many of their rookies had a role in keeping them in contention for a playoff spot until the end of the season.
Need proof the Bengals are getting their fair share of respect under Coach Lewis? Read this cover story from NFL.com. It is good to be a Bengals fan again.
With a simple one-cable connection, iPod users will be able to operate key playback features from the Alpine receiver’s buttons and have display of playlists, album, artist and songs on the head unit. The iPod can then be safely stored in the glove box or console because it acts like a portable hard drive connected to the head unit through Alpine’s powerful Ai-Net system bus. The Alpine connectivity solution also provides charging of the iPod’s internal battery.
Too cool. I hope this starts a wave of competitive development like the original iPod did. I need a head unit that will interface with my Nomad MuVo2 4GB.
Thanks to Clarisita for the heads up!
