July 2009
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Biofuels could clean up Chernobyl 'badlands' →
I didn’t know that the ‘86 Chernobyl meltdown threw most of the fallout (80%) into Belarus… At that time, though, I guess they were both still part of the USSR, so technically they were the same country.
“Farmers grow some grain crops here. The radioactive material concentrates in roots and stalks, which they plough back into the soil after harvesting. So the soil is...
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Ken Levine on Studio Culture: From Looking Glass... →
Gama interviews Ken Levine.
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Interview with Chris Anderson →
GoodReads interviews Chris Anderson about his new book, Free. It is, appropriately, free in electronic form (the link above) for two weeks before and after its release.
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100 Years of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago →
In 1909, planner Daniel Burnham proposed his grand Plan of Chicago:
“Because Chicago’s transportation infrastructure was so congested—the railroads, harbor and streets were a disorganized mess—the plan analyzed the city within a 60-mile radius, proposing boulevards connecting the center to the outlying suburbs and the suburbs to one another. While the full street system was not built,...
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We Choose The Moon →
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In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, this site is staging a “re-enactment” (or what to call it) of the events in real time (seemingly), only 40 years later and utilizing 2009 web technology. Both Houston Control and Apollo 11 have their own Twitters (!), for example. Not a whole lot going on at the moment, but it’s still T-minus 63 hours until “launch”.
This is...
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Watch Cowboy Bebop →
You can watch every episode of Cowboy Bebop online here, as well as the movie.
Best anime around, especially for those skeptical of anime in general.
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Permanent Death →
Ben Abraham is trying to play all the way through Far Cry 2 without dying. This’ll be interesting.
I love that game.
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Alice and Kev →
This has been around for a little while, but I’ve just now been reading through it.
It’s the story of 2 homeless sims in Sims 3. The writer set up a man and a girl (father and daughter) to live on an empty plot of land in the neighborhood. With just their personality traits programmed into the game, the posts on this blog catalog their interactions with one another and the...
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Treasure World →
Offworld post about a new DS treasure hunting game. Finding the “treasure” requires you to roam the real world while your DS scans for wi-fi hotspots, which act as treasure locations, I guess. Sounds fun.