The other day I was browsing the Bungie Webcam and noticed what appeared to be the cover of a book with the word INTEGRITY on the cover in very large letters. However, the whole thing wasn't visible, and I thought to myself, if I was enough of a Bungie Fan, I'd go search the web until I found out what book that was and tried to relate it to Halo somehow.

Well, today the image on the 'cam shows the whole cover, including the author's name, and Matt(uh...#5) beat me to it, posting a link on the forum at halo.bungie.org to this item on Amazon.com, which, incidentally, is Integrity by one Stephen L. Carter, Yale law professor.

On that page is an excerpt from Kirkus Reviews about the book, in which this appears:

Integrity, in his conception of it, is a kind of über-virtue, for it involves, discerning what is right and what is wrong [and] acting on what you have discerned, even at personal cost. To make sure everyone knows that you have integrity, you should also announce that you are acting on your understanding of right from wrong. Carter is aware of all the traditional problems with integrity (doesn't a fanatical Nazi have integrity?), and in his legalistic way, the Yale law professor enunciates a series of carefully couched codicils designed to close off such immoral loopholes.

Now, others can do the bit of trying to relate this somehow to Halo, or Bungie, or Microsoft, or something...