Geoscience
johnaltate:
From the page: "It窶s the kind of warning that could be a gamechanger for people in earthquake country."
Posted on May 13, 2013
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Liberties/Rights
Multiple Arrests Of Liberal Activists In North Carolina...
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johnaltate:
From the page: "âoeWe thought it was important to stand up and be heard. We hope that as respected historians, who some would call eminent, we can reach out to others and stir them to speak out.â"
Posted on May 10, 2013
Television
Defiance: The Devil in the Dark
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johnaltate:
Watch it all.
Posted on May 1, 2013
Video Games
johnaltate:
From the page: "..for me personally (keep in mind that there are eight other writers that worked on Mass Effect), I donât necessarily take inspiration from scifi. The thing I love about Mass Effect is that you can tell any story. Whether itâs from Downton Abbey, you can find those sort of human stories scattered throughout itâŠ,â said Walters."
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
Humor
True Evil - Table Titans
tabletitans.com
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johnaltate:
From the page: " I didn't want his first dungeon to be too hard, so I created a rather tame affair that could be run easily with simple problem-solving skills and basic math. You know, the kind of dungeon that relies on the player more than the character."
Posted on Apr 19, 2013
Cognitive Science
newvagabond: maxistentialist: Tweenbots by...
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johnaltate:
From the page: ". Over the course of the following months, through"
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
Literature
And Then The Video Game Industry Woke Up
kotaku.com
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johnaltate:
From the page: "ways optimistic at GDC, and as "
Posted on Apr 1, 2013
Web Development
Ian Hickson - Google+
google.com
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johnaltate:
From the page: "
Arguing that DRM doesn't work is, it turns out, missing the point. DRM is working really well in the video and book space. Sure, the DRM systems have all been broken, but that doesn't matter to the DRM proponents. Licensed DVD players still enforce the restrictions. Mass market providers can't create unlicensed DVD players, so they remain a black or gray market curiosity. DRM failed in the music space not because DRM is doomed, but because the content providers sold their digital content without DRM, and thus enabled all kinds of players they didn't expect (such as "MP3" players). Had CDs been encrypted, iPods would not have been able to read their content, because the content providers would have been able to use their DRM contracts as leverage to prevent it."
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
Anarchism
CA.Org/TAD Are Stealing Artist Royalties by *Cryptcrawler...
deviantart.com
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johnaltate:
From the page: "
Before work got steady this was a painful reality for me and I'll be perfectly honest with you, it ate me alive.
However, once you move past all that and find out you aren't the only one it's happened to and that it could happen to someone else, your motivation changes to something else entirely.
I realize that by doing this I'm kissing any hope of getting the money that's been stolen from me returned.
If that is what has to happen to ensure that someone else doesn't get victimized by these individuals and institutions, then I'll gladly eat it.
This consumer warning is offered out of my sincere concern for those of you who may be considering entering into a contractual agreement, investing your capitol or livelihood or even attending classes or events involving/hosted by either Conceptart.Org or TAD.
You do so at your own financial peril for they have stolen the royalties that they agreed to pay me via contractual agreement, for going on two years now.
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Posted on Mar 5, 2013
Video Games
Age Of Wonders III/3/three/iii/³ Announced
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johnaltate:
From the page: "It窶ll be in a shiny new engine (as you窶d hope, with the last game coming out in 2002). Would you like a feature list? I bet you would.
Explore, expand and exploit a living fantasy world. Discover wondrous locations and gather legendary heroes.
Develop your domain, with many classes having the ability to change terrain and climates to suit your needs.
All new 3D graphics that provide a crisper and m"
Posted on Feb 10, 2013
Roleplaying Games
Brainy Gamer: Notes from the wild
brainygamer.com
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johnaltate:
From the page: "
Why not? Because those arguments fail the sniff test. It no longer matters whether or not games contributed to the massacre at Newtown. What matters is that lots of reasonable people have come to believe weâre awash in depictions of bloody violence across media, and repeatedly exposing our kids to this stuff is just plain wrong. In all my years of playing shooters and brawlers, my mother never expressed a shred of concern. But this year at Christmas she looked me in the eye and asked, âoeDo you worry that video games make killing seem like fun?â And for the first time I answered yes."
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
Robotics
R/C Sports Car Transformer?!
sourcefednews.com
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johnaltate:
From the page: "otype during the upcoming Maker Faire in Tokyo that begins December 1st. The r/c car is operated using a modified PS3 controller, has a missile launcher in each arm, and a wireless camera that can feed into mobile devices like the iPad."
Posted on Nov 28, 2012
Mental Health
johnaltate:
From the page: "There are among us men who live their whole lives wanting to have sex with children but never doing it. America might have more of these men if we eased our taboos on anyone even admitting an attraction to kids. Consider that in Germany there is Prevention Project Dunkelfeld, an organization that, like a suicide hotline, offers free counseling to anyone struggling with thoughts of molesting a child. "Dunkelfeld" translates to "dark field," and PPD's founders say their goal is to make sure pedophiles come out of the shadows and get the help they need before they offend. A sample PPD tagline is representative of the kind of sympathy with which it approaches the problem: "You are not guilty because of your sexual desire, but you are responsible for your sexual behavior. There is help.""
Posted on Sep 7, 2012
Liberal Politics
What does AMA and IAMA mean on forums like reddit?
kgbanswers.com
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johnaltate:
From the page: "n the social news website Reddit IAmA stands for "I am a" and AMA stands for "ask me anything".
In an IAmA post, a person will post what they are, and other people will ask the original poster about himself/herself.
Reddit was founded by two 22 year old University of Virginia graduates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005. Reddit claims to get more than 1,600,000,000 page views each and every month, it is one of the largest websites, with the greatest amount of traffic in the world."
Posted on Jul 11, 2012
Literature
Memory—H. P. Lovecraft—Flash Fiction Online
flashfic...line.com
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johnaltate:
From the page: "
The Genie that haunts the moonbeams spake to the Daemon of the Valley, saying, âoeI am old, and forget much. Tell me the deeds and aspect and name of them who built these things of Stone.â And the Daemon replied, âoeI am Memory, and am wise in lore of the past, but I too am old. These beings were like the waters of the river Than, not to be understood. Their deeds I recall not, for they were but of the moment. Their aspect I recall dimly, it was like to that of the little apes in the trees. Their name I recall clearly, for it rhymed with that of the river. These beings of yesterday were called Man.â
So the Genie flew back to the thin horned moon, and the Daemon looked intently at a little ape in a tree that grew in a crumbling courtyard."
Posted on May 8, 2012
Science
johnaltate:
From the page: "2) You can only deconstruct your roots for so long
At least, that's what comics creators seemed to find. Right around the time that space opera was turning gritty, a lot of superhero creators were going the opposite way. Alan Moore may have done for superheroes what Joss Whedon and Ron Moore did for space heroes, with Watchmen and The Killing Joke 窶" but by the early 2000s, he was doing America's Best Comics, including the bright, heroic Tom Strong. Kurt Busiek was making waves with colorful-but-introspective Astro City. You heard comics buffs saying the age of "deconstruction" had been replaced by "reconstruction." So at some point, gritty space opera was bound to stop being a challenge to the status quo, and just become... the status quo. What's sad is that we haven't seen a wave of "reconstruction" in mass media space opera, outside of J.J. Abrams' Trek and a few other things."
Posted on Feb 28, 2012
Liberal Politics
Purple Heart: Soldier Pawns Medal To Pay For Christmas
huffingtonpost.com
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johnaltate:
From the page: "he serviceman who gave up his medal of merit remains anonymous. He declined an interview with the Sentinel.
VanderBosch, the pawn shop owne"
Posted on Dec 22, 2011
Liberties/Rights
johnaltate:
From the page: "Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Lewis Powell Memo, a document that set the stage for the creation of the echo chamber that protects corporate interests ahead of the public interest. A corporate lawyer and well-known tobacco industry defender at the time, Lewis Powell [7] wrote this influential memo to a friend at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce laying out a strategy to develop a long-term campaign to set up corporate front groups and think tanks to manufacture the appearance of credibility for corporate interests.
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Posted on Nov 3, 2011
Guns
Chimneyspeak - 2) 22
chimneyspeak.com
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johnaltate:
rest of the comic is NOT work safe, even if it's an amazing read!
Posted on Sep 15, 2011
Education
johnaltate:
From the page: "13. The students we remember are happy, respectful, and good-hearted, not necessarily the ones with the highest grades. "
Posted on Aug 20, 2011