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This is bizarre and awesome ad for the new Far Cry game.

Heh.

I think I want to pick this one up.

Data triage.

It has its moments. Pretty good effects. Telling that most of their Disney properties parodied are actually Pixar...

Yup, it's like that.

Spot on. Apparently this is an update of one of his older essays, which is why it sounds so familiar, but the spirit remains.

I just renamed the admin user, but otherwise, good advice in light of recent wordpress-targeted attacks.

Submit to ORB!

This is a literal crime against humanity. Bush may have started it, but Obama hasn't put a stop to it in for years. I have hope that we correct this grave error and never do it again, no matter how afraid we might be.

Interesting ideas, mostly ones I hadn't been exposed to in my fandoms and maleness.

Adam Gopnik says Galileo was a great scientist because he wasn't afraid to admit when he was wrong.

Fascinating tale of people fleeing to the National Radio Quiet Zone to relieve their (probably nocebo) symptoms.

I think the point about money supply is a very good one - what appeals to certain hardcore libertarians doesn't work in a liquid global economy.

It's a fascinating development, right out of Neal Stephenson.

Pretty crazy the detail Jobs demanded from this project. I think Tim will see it through.

Sounds similar to arrangements that used to be more common in the US.

Definitely need to try a few of these.

Neat trick. Gives me an image of how gelatinous cubes work in D&D.

Just skip the mathlib install and this works fine under Cygwin.

These are pretty funny.

Virtual economics. Pretty crazy modeling, which helped to predict the financial crisis.

Good points on how to read critically when sharing online.

Yet another great piece from Siracusa connecting a certain kind of politics to a tendency to resist technological revolutions.

Great point about the loss of save files.

Another great criticism of AAA game tropes.

Another great article on indies at PAX. I spent almost all my time on the expo floor at the Megabooth.

More experiments in nullification.

Fascinating analysis. Not surprising that the sparsely populated areas have a primary city.

I don't know enough about sonnets to judge if this is well formed.