American Scary is a documentary about local hosts of horror features that premiers in October 2006. Can’t wait to see this released one on DVD.
September, 2006
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This Reuters article about a study of the effects of MMOs on sociability had me laughing out loud. Constance Steinkhuehler, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dmitri Williams, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studied the effects of playing Asheron’s Call I and II on 750 subjects (half divided into a non-game playing control…
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Alas, there are still no flying cars, but Terrafugia hopes somebody to sell a combination automobile/plane. In the mean time, it offers a module for the PC flight simulator game “X-Plane” that models what is “roadable aircraft” will fly like,
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A few months ago I wrote about custom-made magnetic Katamaris for sale on Etsy. I finally broke down and bought one recently from crotchet wizard Amy’s Babies. I told her to surprise me on the colors and the result was perfect,
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Google’s Webmaster Central has a lot of tools for webmasters to make sure everything on their site is submitted to Google and to track Google’s status in indexing a site.
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ArsTechnica has an extensive review of the Lego Mindstorms NXT system. Sounds like Lego has put together an excellent sequel to the original Mindstorms (and at $250 for the box, it better be damn good).
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Using a technique that examines short bits of DNA, researchers examined water taken from the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean and discovered thousands of previously unknown species of bacteria. The survey was part of the Census of Marine Life, a decade-long effort to map all marine life. Researchers found an astonishing amount of bacteria in the…
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The New York Times published one of the strangest religion-related stories when reporter Michael Luo wrote about schools in the United States where students aged 7 to 14 spend 8 hour days memorizing the Koran. And that’s pretty much all they do, according to the New York Times. Luo writes (emphasis added), Because the task…
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With its tagline of “Stop the Fluff. Think For Yourself. Fight the Bunny,” Wicca for the Rest of Us is a Wiccan website even this atheist can get into. For example, the site hosts a series of essays debunking some of the historical falsehoods bandied about by some Wiccans/pagans/neopagans/whatever. The site’s take down of Margaret…
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War-Torn Middle East Seeks Solace in Religion had me laughing out loud the other day, Palestinian widow and mother of three Dareen Idriss agreed, citing the healing power of prayer as a way to cope with the relentless slaughter she and her family witness every day. “When the children cannot stop crying because of the…