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95 Old School Games You Can Play Online:
Every game is reviewed and rated. Includes a link to every game on the
list, a visual and mini description and how each one is played.

Play board games during the holidays? Try an updated version of an old classic.
You can indulge in as much sex, drugs, crime, and rock and roll as your
health will handle, just don’t roll a 1 on your first turn or you’ll be
aborted before you get started.

Or, if you are looking for something a little more fresh and less “serious gamish” why not try the new religious parody game in which you can play a chain gun wielding, cross toting Jesus? Other board games designed around (possibly exploitative) socio-cultural satire, like Ghettopoly and Redneckopoly, have provoked strong reactions.

The Caffeine Examiner will review any product containing caffeine. For example: chewing gum, sprays, energy drinks, soft drinks, hard drinks, perplexingly hard drinks, patches…?
The sidebar on the right points to reviews of more caffeinated products
than I had ever dreamed existed. Products are also rated by taste,
packaging, nutrition/buzz, and website functionality.

Cats have a seemingly unique ability, a ‘righting reflex’, to orient
themselves in a fall allowing them to avoid many injuries and land on
all four feet. It is this ability that helps cats to parachute safely into Borneo and survive falls from the 38th floor of a skyscraper (although falls from lower levels can be more serious given that it takes some time for the cat to right itself). Here’s how it works. Here’s a video of the reflex in action.

“At an age at which I should be putting on a wedding dress, I am asking for someone’s eyes to be dripped with acid,”

Four years ago, a spurned suitor poured a bucket of
sulfuric acid over [Ameneh Bahrami’s] head, leaving her blind and
disfigured. Late last month, an Iranian court ordered that five drops
of the same chemical be placed in each of her attacker’s eyes, acceding
to Bahrami’s demand that he be punished according to a principle in
Islamic jurisprudence that allows a victim to seek retribution for a
crime. The sentence has not yet been carried out.

If you’re not familiar with acid attacks against women, you can start with Wikipedia.

Perpetrators of these attacks throw acid at their victims
(usually at their faces), burning them, damaging skin tissue, often
exposing and sometimes dissolving the bones. The consequences of these
attacks include blindness and permanent scarring of the face and body.
These attacks are common in Cambodia, Afganistan, India, Bangladesh,
Pakistan, and other Asian countries.

Acid attacks are being used in Afghanistan against women and girls to as part of an effort to oppress them. Specifically, girls who attend school are being targeted to prevent them from getting an education.

In India, Haseena Hussain, the victim of an acid attack, now works with the Campaign and Struggle Against Acid Attacks on Women (CSAAAW).

In Pakistan, a cosmetics company is trying to help women who are the victims of arson and acid attacks.

Nicholas Kristof wrote an article about acid attacks last month, “Terrorism That’s Personal” which discusses a Pakistani organization, the Progressive Women’s Association:
Fighting Against the Horror of Violence Against Women working to stop
this sort of violence and an effort being made by the US Congress to
pass the International Violence Against Women Act.

Terry Pratchett , a man renowned for his staggering sales figures from his renowned Discworld series has been knighted.

Did You Try Rebooting?

A single serving site that should be the one link IT help desk you offer to Luddite friends, family and peers when they come to you with computer related problems.

You’ve got some sugar in your eye: 100 Cereal Box Covers

I work as a film location scout in New York City.
My day is basically spent combing the streets for interesting and
unique locations for feature films. In my travels, I often stumble
across some pretty incredible sights, most of which are ignored every
day by thousands of New Yorkers in too much of a rush to pay attention.
As it happens, it’s my job to pay attention, and I’ve started this blog
to keep a record of what I see.