Unquiet Desperation

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I missed Windows for a while this weekend.

I was looking for a game to take my mind off of selling the house and moving to L.A. I wanted to relax and play a game, and I was craving a game like Galactic Civilizations. A sci-fi empire builder with exploration, colonization, [...]

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Human Mirror is the latest mission by Improv Everywhere where a group of identical twins rode on a NYC subway car, creating a human mirror. Here’s the full report.
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Web browsers are fragile assemblies of bugs, held together with Hello Kitty stickers.
from Kibo : Kibo : About Kibo’s official Web site
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No, really. July 4th falls in the astrological sign of Cancer.
What did you think I meant?
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This was a lot of fun to watch, and I’m not just saying that because I work for Mahalo. I’ve been wanting to learn things like this for some time. I think I’ll be checking out Gary’s show.

My parents’ generation was informed by great and powerful things. By the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the deaths of John Kennedy, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King. Before them, my grandparents were raised on dirt, suffering through the Great Depression with a grim determination to do it better for their kids. Me? [...]

Let’s have a little fun. What should the caption of this photo be? Come now, be creative.

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Often called a dead genre, interactive fiction continues to flourish long after reaching the end of its commercial lifespan. In the decades since whiz-bang graphics drew away the attention of the masses, hundreds of games have continued to evolve the genre — to the point where it can be a little intimidating [...]

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Chris Moody has just posted my interview for his PodioMedia Chat podcast. If you’ve ever wanted to know what goes on under the hood of Podiobooks.com, this is the show for you.

I’ve also put it in my own podcast feed. Listen below, or visit the PodioMedia Chat website for [...]

 

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A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers’ eyes. It’s the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait.
And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from [...]