Dream a little dream of me
The Fallout 3 that never will be. As far as western RPGs go, the Fallout series was one of the crown jewels. A spiritual successor to EA’s Wasteland, the games combined tragedy, black humor and all the cool of the retrofuture apocalypse. Although much of the creative team left to form Troika Games, and two (barely related) follow-up games were made, Black Isle Studios (who were also responsible for the Dungeons and Dragons-based Icewind Dale and Baldur’s Gate series, along with the epic Planescape: Torment) was planning a third sequel, but now Bethesda picked up the IP and plans to make an MMORPG. That little tech demo is all that’s left of one of the most demanded video game sequels in western RPG history.
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riding the synchronicity highway
20 Most Amazing Coincidences, “the noteworthy alignment of two or more events or circumstances without obvious causal connection” and other superlatives.
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Weeding out
Forbes Magazine Details The Top Ten Most Exotic Kinds of Weed (yes, the puff puff kind) with pricing and lovely pictures but no links to local dispensaries.
PS. Yer favorite weed that’s not on the list sucks.
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Spanish Solar Tower of Power
Wow, until now all I’ve ever seen has been passive solar power, where the suns rays are just collected and turned into electricity via powerfull solar cels, but redirecting the light via massive mirrors and into steam? cool, steampunk power to the rescue!
“The rays of sunlight reflected by a field of 600 huge mirrors are so intense they illuminate the water vapour and dust hanging in the air.”
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The cat’s out of the …. oh.
A New Brunswick woman is wondering how she made it through Saint John Airport security and all the way to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., with a live cat in her suitcase.
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With nature and a camera
Being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer – An utterly charming picture of life in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in 1896.
St Kilda – "Many theories have been advanced as to the origin of the inhabitants of this lonely rock, and a curious tradition exists as to its acquisition by members of the outside world. The inhabitants of Harris and Uist agreed to make it the prize for a boat race, and accordingly set out to row across the intervening waste of waters. So equally matched were the crews in regard to pluck and endurance that they arrived at St Kilda almost at the same moment. The Uist men, however, led by a few strokes, and hopes of winning ran high amongst them when Colla MacLeod, the chief of the Harris gang, chopped his left hand off and flung it ashore over the heads of his competitors, and secured St Kilda and its satellites to himself and his descendants for all time."
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Limited Edition Coolness
20ltd.com is a new and unique online shop. They have 20 limited edition items for sale at any time, and each item is a limited edition made exclusively for 20ltd.com. And they have a jukebox with some great tunes on to shop by.
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How to Interview
How to conduct a job interview. 5 steps to conducting good job interviews and finding the right candidates. Contains answers to the infamous why is a manhole cover round question. Also, 10 common mistakes managers should avoid when conducting same. On the flispide, here are some tips for interview preparation, the 25 most difficult questions an interviewee can prepare for and some things to avoid saying in interviews.
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Peak Performance
Peak Performance is a website featuring dozens of articles on just about every aspect of sports science, including large sections devoted to cycling, swimming and sports psychology. Some of my own favorites deal with the beneficial effects of Omega-3 fatty acids, the Chinese government’s plan to dominate the Olympics, Veronique Billat’s 30-30 running workouts and how to increase growth hormone levels naturally.
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Get off my orbital vector!
To celebrate the 17th birthday of the Hubble Space Telescope, please feast your eyes on a very detailed (Flash) picture of the Carina Nebula.
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iGoogle goes live
iGoogle is the new name for Google Home Page. It’s now out of testing. If you use any Google services, such as Gmail, it’s worth checking out because it really is useful. You can even make your own widgets.
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Mummenschanz on the Muppets
Mummenschanz on the Muppets Footage of swiss mime troop, Mummenschanz… [2, 3, 4]. Jenn and I just watched the episode that these clips were taken from, scary shit.
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Climate change explained!
Connie Meskimen of Hot Springs, Arkansas has a down-to-earth explanation for climate change! What the scientists and the Fifth Column environmentalists bent on wrecking American industry hope that you’ll overlook!
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The next thirty years of war
The British Ministry of Defence has been thinking about the future , and 2037 looks like it’ll be a doozy. Others have been thinking about it too, and they believe they’ll be mainly hot, sweaty, dirty and confusing.
Of course, if you’re the Canadian military, you get a science fiction author to write your future for you.
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Tom Smith’s Free Music.
Tom Smith is your average guy who likes comic books, Harlan Ellison short stories and Julie Newmar in a Catwoman suit (who dosen’t?). Except the thing is, the guy can sing and write music too. And he releases a free song every week at his iTom page. Like most artists his music can be hit and miss, but there’s some great free music to be found there such as Contessa and the awesome Jim Henson tribute A Boy and His Frog. Oh, and he also runs the ‘Digital Acoustic‘ livejournal, where he discusses all manner of things such as comics, politics and of course, music.
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SCIENCE!
“UNTIL you experiment with chlorine, you have missed some of the biggest thrills your home laboratory can give you.” Sound like fun? Bet you’ll want to set up your own home chemistry lab and try it out. But don’t stop there – the wonders of hydrogen and mercury await! Make a gas that gives you the giggles, then blow stuff up for more guffaws. And that’s just part of only one section of Modern Mechanix – "Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Today!"
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Map of maps, timeline of timelines
Milestones in graphics, maps, and visualizations. An incredible site for anyone interested in the history of visualization of data. See the first town map from 6200 BCE. Take a look at some of the most important graphics through history, including the London cholera map and the diagrams that made Florence Nightingale’s case, as well as recent examples of some of the worst. Also check out the fascinating history of timelines, or Cabinet magazine’s beautifully illustrated Timeline of Timelines.
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Turn on, tune in, get out
Entheogens and Psychotherapy. A 2001 paper by Canadian psychotherapist Andrew Feldmar on the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelics and his own experience with LSD. Now, because of this paper, he is no longer allowed to enter the U.S. [Via MindHacks.]
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121 pints of tears on the wall, 121 pints of tears…
"The average person will eat over 10,000 bars of chocolate, shed 121 pints of tears and have sex more than 4,200 times".
A documentary airing tonight in the UK is attempting a new method of visualizing statistics related to an individual’s impact on the environment. Human Footprint is scheduled to air on Channel 4 at 9PM GMT.
There is a "calculator" you can use to get the statistics adjusted for your age (and give you a little more data behind the statistics if you can sit through a page by page flash demo).
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Children Having Children
A nine-year-old girl had a baby; her rapist gets twenty-five years. She is not the youngest mother: Lina Medina bore a child at age five. Other young mothers.
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