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Our campaign has started and the party has already participated in the slaughter of a hundred thousand civilians! Off to a good start, no?
You can find more details about the campaign by clicking here and then clicking on “Campaign”. In there you’ll find some details on the characters as well as player blogs.
Posted by Aaron on July 8, 2008, 8:40 am permalink top | general
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This desk would be perfect on the bridge of your time-travelling airship.
Too bad it costs $21,000. Link.
Posted by Aaron on June 18, 2008, 3:46 pm permalink top | general
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NASA released this image of a sunset on Mars, taken by the Spirit rover. It’s amazing what we humans have accomplished, despite all of our faults and frailties.
Posted by Aaron on June 4, 2008, 8:11 am permalink top | general
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I’m not a Michael Jackson fan by any stretch of the definition, but the video for Smooth Criminal holds a special place in my heart simply for the amazing choreography and themes. So today I found out that Fred Astaire was the inspiration for much of what we see in that video. Check out this […]
Posted by Aaron on May 28, 2008, 11:46 am permalink top | general
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This American Life, a news radio podcast from Chicago Public Radio has recently posted an episode entitled “The Giant Pool of Money”, a co-production with NPR. In their own words:
A special program about the housing crisis. We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the collapse of the […]
Posted by Aaron on May 15, 2008, 8:54 am permalink top | general
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Saw this posted over on Boing Boing and had to share. The New York Times site has a great article on Steampunk fashion.
It is also the vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly […]
Posted by Aaron on May 8, 2008, 8:59 am permalink top | general
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First a little background on the Iranian Oil Bourse, from wikipedia:
The Iranian Oil Bourse is a commodity exchange which opened on February 17, 2008. It was created by cooperation between Iranian ministries and other state and private institutions. The IOB is a Petrobourse for petroleum, petrochemicals and gas in various non-dollar currencies, primarily the […]
Posted by Aaron on May 2, 2008, 1:51 pm permalink top | general
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The Wired Gadget Lab has an interesting article up about a new, fourth electronic circuit element, the memristor, which was originally theorized by an engineering student back in 1971.
Thirty-seven years later, a group of scientists from HP Labs has finally built real working memristors, thus adding a fourth basic circuit element to electrical circuit theory, […]
Posted by Aaron on April 30, 2008, 3:21 pm permalink top | general
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I just recently came back from La France, the nation where my girlfriend was born and raised. It had been 2 years since we last visited but, with the upcoming move, we could only afford to visit for a week. We flew in to Paris overnight on Zoom Airlines; we’ve flown with them in the […]
Posted by Aaron on April 23, 2008, 8:52 pm permalink top | general
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Here’s an article about a mother who let her 9-year-old son take the subway home, across New York City. If your first thought was “Oh my god! Is she insane?!”, don’t worry, it’s not your fault. You’ve just been brainwashed by years of “Tragic Event TV”.
The problem with this everything-is-dangerous outlook is that over-protectiveness is […]
Posted by Aaron on April 11, 2008, 3:39 pm permalink top | general
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