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Today's attacks

Michael Scheuer's recent article for Jamestown nicely correlates with these two paras from today's announcement as transcribed by the BBC.

[ This is the first in a series of posts I'm making on August 2, 2005, containing DoubleQuotes that I've been posting elsewhere while unable to access FTP to post them here -- I'm setting the time and date of each to the time of original posting ]

Virtuality Reality

So, which is more virtual and which more real -- the online game or the poker game?

Games East and West

Black and white: absolute opposites, in the moral sphere which is the most significant of all, or friendly rivals / collaborators in the swirl of the tai-chih?

Do not let a pastime upset true affection
You can still accord with kind and say "I win."
The contest over, black and white are collected into two boxes
And where is there any trace of loss or gain?

These words of Wang An-Shih, 11th century Chinese statesman, are found on the same page as the description of the ideal go stones above. They remind me of William Blake: Opposition is true friendship.