Experience History: Berlin 1961-1989 November 5, 2009
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Flickr has created a Photo Pool to commemorate the upcoming 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Flickr users who have photos from that period stowed away somewhere, are invited to share them.
Such a strange, strange time.
Gabe turns Halloween and craft items into an awesome dungeon October 23, 2009
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Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik does some very clever things for his regular Dungeons and Dragons game, both conceptually and in terms of stagecraft. Here, he sends his party on an adventure modeled on quests from World of WarCraft, on a game board built using craft materials such as LED tea lights, Halloween spiderwebs, plastic toys and shiny trinkets.
Obi Wan has an opinion about Mos Eisley October 19, 2009
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Bre Pettis: If you aren’t doing something obsessive October 18, 2009
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I’m not saying to quit your job and start an iPhone app company to connect people, although there are lots of people doing that successfully. I’m saying that if you aren’t doing something obsessive that connects you to a community in addition to your normal daily grind, then you are giving pony rides while the trains rush past.
Countdown to Moon explosion: 14 hours, 26 minutes October 8, 2009
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Moon explodes Friday morning. Bring your telescope and watch it at Cal Anderson Park, Seattle. http://bit.ly/khmoh
Remaking Star Wars, 15 seconds at a time October 8, 2009
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Jedi ejected from supermarket for wearing hood September 28, 2009
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Tesco spokesperson: “If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they’ll miss lots of special offers.”
Thanks to http://geekfeed.info/
Huge hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure uncovered in UK September 25, 2009
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It’s an unprecedented find that could revolutionize ideas about medieval England’s Germanic rulers: An amateur treasure-hunter searching a farmer’s field with a metal detector unearthed a huge collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver artifacts.
The discovery sent a thrill through Britain’s archaeological community, which said Thursday that it offers new insight into the world of the Anglo-Saxons, who ruled England from the fifth century until the 1066 Norman invasion and whose cultural influence is still felt throughout the English-speaking world.
Favorite line: “The hoard was officially declared treasure by a coroner on Thursday.” See, that’s what coroners do in the UK. When you find a hoard, they examine it to see if it’s treasure. Not surprisingly, their job satisfaction levels are much higher than their counterparts in the United States, who tend to handle corpses rather than golden coins, precious gems and magical, legendary blades.
