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Crank Up Your Laptop’s Gaming Power with an External Video Card Dock [DIY]
If your laptop’s integrated graphics just aren’t cutting it for the games you want to play, you can actually connect a desktop graphics card to your ExpressCard slot with an external dock. More »… Continue reading
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Dwarf Fortress: “perhaps the most complex video game ever made”
In the July 24, 2011 edition of the New York Times Magazine, Jonah Weiner profiled Tarn and Zach Adams, the brothers who created the game Dwarf Fortress, which is kind of like a much geekier, vastly more complex version of Minecraft (in fact, the cre… Continue reading
Sudoku Strategy Families
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Sudoku Slam – free web sudoku online, smart hints, undo, save puzzles, more
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The Art of Puzzles
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The Power List: 20 people who rocked science fiction and fantasy in 2010 [Power List]
It takes many galaxies’ worth of amazing people to make science fiction and fantasy rock our world… but every year, there are some people who stand out as especially influential. Here’s this year’s list of the genre’s movers and shakers.
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XBLA Fans: The Complete Super Meat Boy Bandage Guide | xblafans.com
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The Chess Master
Garry Kasparov |
NY Review of Books |
Feb 2010
A grandmaster on the computers that have bested him and how we have misunderstood the implications of artificial intelligence.
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Tagged artificial intelligence, Best of 2010, chess, Editor's Pick, syndicated
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Fall from Heaven
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Why golf balls have dimples [Mad Science]
You’d think a totally smooth surface would be better at flying through the air with the least amount of wind resistance. So why do golf balls have all those little indentations? So they can use the air against itself.
Ah, golf, the thing you watch when… Continue reading
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The Combine Interview
This is actually quite a well-done video that parodies an infamous Tom Cruise Scientology interview, but is set in the Half-Life 2 universe. Link (via Kotaku)
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Portal’s Still Alive filmed in Lego
A video for Portal’s end credits song filmed in Lego stop-motion! More than 1300 individual pictures went into the making of this film. It is based off of the video game, Portal, and features the soundtrack from the game’s credits … Continue reading
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The Compleat Gamer Geek’s Guide to Futurama
Wired’s Game|Life blog has just finished a series of articles on Futurama. Check them out for another look behind the scenes. This week on Game|Life, Wired magazine senior editor Chris Baker took us through the crazy videogame-obsessed brains of the … Continue reading
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The story behind the Portal end song
Jonathan Coulton, the writer of “Still Alive”, the memorable end song for Portal, gives us the story behind the song. You may already be familiar with Jonathan’s previous songs, like Code Monkey. Portal is one of the most brilliant games … Continue reading
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How-To: Make an Xbox 360 laptop (part 1)
Engadget has posted part 1 of a detailed how-to on converting an Xbox 360 into a laptop. The making-of How-To for the Xbox 360 laptop will be in three parts. In today’s segment we’ll discuss the parts list, stripping down … Continue reading
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The Original Human Space Invaders
Space Invaders in stop-motion using humans as pixels. Brilliant! Link (via Boing Boing)
Action video games improve eyesight
Not really surprising, but playing action games can help improve your visual processing abilities. In an article to be published in Psychological Science, they have shown that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over … Continue reading
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Pong: The Text-Based Game
This is a humorous text-adventure version of Pong. Excellent, the left paddle has needed a leader like you for a long time. With your help, we may just be able to destroy the evil enemy that is the left paddle. … Continue reading
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