Breaking Into Games Writing? (Tuesday 25th of November 2008 01:45:01 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "One of the biggest complaints I hear from 'discerning' gamers is how
few and far between well-written games are. Titles like Mass Effect and the Black Isle series
just appear far too rarely. Writing and storyboarding are aspects ...
(more)Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth (Saturday 01st of November 2008 11:30:02 AM)
MaxwellEdison writes "Scientists have discovered corroboration of seductive portals connecting
the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes. 'Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs
form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), ...
(more)Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth (Saturday 01st of November 2008 11:30:01 AM)
MaxwellEdison writes "Scientists have discovered demonstration of entrancing portals connecting
the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes. 'Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs
form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), ...
(more)Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents (Friday 31st of October 2008 11:15:02 AM)
Zordak writes "The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just issued its
much-anticipated opinion in In Re Bilski [PDF]. This was a re-visit of the State Street issue
of what constitutes patentable subject matter (including whether macos and craft ...
(more)Seeing With Your Skin? (Saturday 04th of October 2008 05:00:01 AM)
Iddo Genuth writes to tell us that a sleuth from Tel Aviv health center is exploring the
probability that humans may be able to "see" via their skin. instructor Leonid Yaroslavsky
hopes to utilize this realistic applied science to find solutions for the ...
(more)Global Mobile Alert Corporation Nominated by Telematics Update for Active Early Warning System (Monday 16th of June 2008 08:10:11 AM)
Global Mobile Alert clan was nominated for the 2008 Best lightweight Telematics explanation
Award, which gave the company an convenience to meet some of the leaders in the counsel and
communications industrial lore field, says deputy Else Latinovic. To ...
(more)Rabbit Breakout (Sunday 01st of June 2008 01:00:00 AM)
Three rabbits escape from a testing lab and find an entire field full of carrots. They eat
themselves into a stupor and sleep everyplace the night. The next morning, they find an entire
field full of female rabbits with no males in sight. They screw ...
(more)New Ion Engine Enters Space Race (Friday 18th of April 2008 03:45:04 PM)
Bibek Paudel brings us a BBC report on the development and testing of an new ion engine by a
security firm named Qinetiq. The engine will be used in an ESA spacecraft tasked with mapping
the Earth's gravitational field from orbit. Only a handful of ...
(more)America's Robot Army (Sunday 16th of March 2008 06:45:03 PM)
Popular wave mechanics explores the increasing level of reliance the US military has when it
comes to robotic assistance. In the last few years, robot drones have reached an all-new level
of sophistication, with several models already deployed in the ...
(more)How Would You Make a Distributed Office System? (Tuesday 22nd of January 2008 12:45:04 AM)
Necrotica writes "I work for a business company which went through a server consolidation
project approximately six years ago, thanks to a wonderful suggestion by our outsourcing
partner. use 'although' especially hailed as an excellent cost cutting measure, ...
(more)Is Good Scientific Journalism Possible? (Tuesday 25th of September 2007 11:15:05 PM)
Scida sends in a link to his blog post exploring the question of whether, roughly speaking,
science journalism is an impossible task. From the post: "I have spent the better half of the
past six months trying to understand one thing: how can you effectively ...
(more)On some air bases the Air Force is on one side of the field and civilian ... (Thursday 13th of September 2007 11:30:04 PM)
On some air bases the Air Force is on one side of the field and civilian aircraft use the other
side of the field, with the control tower in the middle.One day the tower received a call from
an aircraft asking, "What time is it?" ...
(more)The Father of Molecular Gastronomy Whips Up a New Formula (Monday 06th of August 2007 06:25:23 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "French chemist and cook Herv This maintains his quest to find the
scientific precision behind great tasting food. Chef This is just one of a growing number of
cooks that approaches food from a scientific perspective; making ...
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