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Everything Else / Decompose plastic in three months?

« on: May 23, 2008, 06:16:49 pm »

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/teen-decomposes-plastic-bag-in-three-months.php

My question is that if such an abundant food source is available, why haven't these two organisms already multiplied exponentially? Whats preventing them from becoming plentiful enough to naturally decrease the rate of decomposure (er, thats not a word, but you get the idea) of plastics?

Thoughts?

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Spore: General / "Spore will fail" says gameplayer.com

« on: March 20, 2008, 12:20:20 am »

I'd like everyone to keep in mind that this article is most likely a hit piece to get people riled up in an attempt to secure hits for their website. With that being said, this is the first negative preview I've seen about Spore and I've been following the game since it was announced. Check it out

http://www.gameplayer.com.au/Home/FEATURES/FEATURE/tabid/1488/Default.aspx?CID=709bcc8b-c4ec-4ded-bb5e-e47a78d2e973&v7Pager=1

Found courtesy of Space Oddity's awesome blog.

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Spore: General / Madrid Q&A (no water creatures, no plant editor, no true flying, no figurines)

« on: March 18, 2008, 05:00:23 pm »

http://www.spore.es/index.php?s=specials&id=3

No water creatures, no true flying, no figurines, and no plant editor. The first two shouldn't come as a surprise, but I think some people will be bumed out to learn that there is no plant editor.

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Everything Else / Homosexuals are evil

« on: March 11, 2008, 09:35:50 am »

According to the politician Sally Kern of Oklahoma that is.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tFxk7glmMbo

Pretty disgusting that this type of ignorance and prejudice still exists in our society today.

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Console Games / EA attemting takeover of Take-Two

« on: February 24, 2008, 01:08:12 pm »

God damnit.

http://kotaku.com/360123/ea-makes-offer-to-buy-take-2

Also, for the record, this is an example of a thread which could go into a general gaming section

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Spore: General / Is there a limit to how many creatures per planet?

« on: February 22, 2008, 09:14:29 am »

Anyone have any idea?

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Spore: General / Analysts predict 3 - 5 million in sales

« on: February 18, 2008, 06:30:46 pm »

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/81546-Analysts-Expect-3-to-5-Million-in-Spore-Sales

I don't think that analyst views hold any water, but it's interesting none the less.

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Everything Else / Cuba stands up for.. Civil Liberties?

« on: February 14, 2008, 10:20:22 pm »

Oh, the irony is killing me.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23211613-663,00.html

To sum the article up, Cuba is demanding that the U.S. give back Guantanamo Bay, citing "the violation of human rights, unjust incarceration of prisoners held there without charges, and their appearance in courts without guarantees and in which they are convicted in advance"

Now, I understand that there are most likely ulterior motives for this, but I don't care. Go Cuba.

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Spore: General / New Article / Video Archive

« on: February 13, 2008, 09:41:35 pm »

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Spore: General / The GFW Podcast talked a bit about Spore

« on: February 13, 2008, 08:59:35 pm »

So the GFW Podcast talked a bit about Spore. Not much new, but they did explain what those huge creatures we've been seeing in pictures are all about. Apparently there's a feature called "Epic Sizing" which basically creates a huge version of a creature that roams around. So to anyone who wanted to make an entire race as big as, say,

this thing, it doesn't look like you can.

http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3148397

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Everything Else / If Iran Were America (And America Was Iran): A Timeline - (1953-2007)

« on: February 03, 2008, 07:41:49 pm »

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/bryan2.html

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Everything Else / Who owns the world?

« on: January 23, 2008, 08:40:02 am »

Oh, that's right, we do.

Really a great article by Noam Chomsky. Worth a read.

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PC Games / Free Civ

« on: January 22, 2008, 06:05:25 pm »

My advertisement for the day:

Freeciv is an open source clone of Civilization. The gameplay is reminiscent of Civilization II with elements of Civ III thrown in. Civ II was always my favorite version of Civ, so it's nice to see whats essentially an updated version of that. Check it out, it's free

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

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PC Games / Battlefield Heroes, free Battlefield game by EA

« on: January 21, 2008, 03:35:07 pm »

Quite a surprising move from EA. Their taking the battlefield franchise, changing the graphics into something reminiscent of Team Fortress 2, and releasing it for free.

http://www.battlefield-heroes.com/news.asp?id=20340

I have to say, I approve of this move. That's innovating. Here's another link if anyone wants to read some more about it

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7199881.stm

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Spore: General / Enemy UFO's are confirmed?

« on: January 19, 2008, 08:21:03 pm »

I'm not sure if this is well known information or not, but it can't hurt making the topic. It appears that there will definitely be alien UFO's attempting to invade your planet.

http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sporehm9.png

"Enemy UFO destroyed! Men in black en route to handle coverup."