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E3 2010 — Civilization V E3 Trailer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX-KViLbOrU&w=560&h=340] I was excitied that Civilization V decidied to appear at this year’s E3 conference. The Civilization series consists of turn-based strategy games. You play the role of a leader of a civilization alongside other civilizations beginning in the year 3000 BCE. Your main goal is to grow economically and progress technologically. Seeing your domain […]
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links for 2010-06-17
Why Bollywood's film about Hitler is profoundly misguided | Film | guardian.co.uk Hitler's support of the Indian National Army, a fascist-allied fighting force led by Subhas Chandra Bose in the 1940s, has apparently persuaded the makers of Dear Friend Hitler that the dictator loved India. In fact, the Nazi regime's disgust when Bose became romantically […]
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E3 2010 – Day 2 review.
All in all, this years conference highlights that E3 is a marketing spectacle more than a reflection on gaming that the Games Developer Conference offers. It is an exciting occasion nonetheless. Most of the games featured in the conferences were either sequels, prequels, or reboots of existing properties. There is nothing wrong with this if these extensions […]
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links for 2010-06-15
The 5 Greatest Books With Psychotic Fan Bases | Cracked.com (tags: books culture book history) The 6 Worst Parts of Being Chinese (Not In The Stereotypes) | Cracked.com (tags: comedy race culture)
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links for 2010-06-12
Glee vs copyright: do as I say, not as I do The absence of any mention of copyright law in Glee illustrates a painful tension in American culture. While copyright holders assert that copyright violators are "stealing" their "property," people everywhere are remixing and recreating artistic works for the very same reasons the Glee kids […]
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links for 2010-06-08
Are the Ten Commandments really the basis for our laws? Clearly, this very First Right of all Americans is in direct contradiction to the very first Commandment sent down by God. So people saying our laws are based on the Ten Commandments must never have even gotten to the first one of the ten. I […]
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links for 2010-06-06
The Gobi Manchurian Candidate Knotts says he believes Haley’s father has been sending letters to India saying that Haley is the first Sikh running for high office in America. He says her father walks around Lexington wearing a turban. “We’re at war over there,” Knotts said. Asked to clarify, he said he did not mean […]
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links for 2010-06-05
Bletchley Park texts to go online (tags: history technology)
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links for 2010-06-04
Dark Roasted Blend: Battleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites (tags: images sustainability technology history) Hidden histories: Afghanistan We all know about Afghanistan – a poor and predominantly Muslim nation that's never really made it out of the Middle Ages, right? Well, it turns out that's simply not the case: retconning Afghanistan as a […]
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links for 2010-06-01
Hirsi Ali, Berman, and Ramadan on Islam : The New Yorker Hirsi Ali is convinced that “lingering between the two value systems,” as her half sister does, “stunts the process of becoming one’s own person.” But those privileged enough to find refuge in the West rarely find it easy or desirable to abandon their ancestral […]