December 2011
It’s Time for HomeStory Cup IV →
The New Year is set to start with a bang as the unique HomeStory Cup makes an explosive return. Now bigger, better, and hopefully with more White-Ra BBQ than ever before!
15 Rare Old Photographs of Far Eastern Opium... →
"Another World" source code review →
I spent two weeks reading and reverse engineering further the source code of Another World (“Out Of This World” in North America). I based my work on Gregory Montoir’s “binary to C++” initial reverse engineering from the DOS executable.
Online Sales of Louis C. K. Special Cross $1... →
Louis C. K. said he had grossed more than $1 million from his online comedy special, “Louis C. K.: Live at the Beacon Theater,” after 10 days on sale, and would be donating part of that money to charity.
Roger Moore and Richard Kiel →
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Soyuz Climbs to International Space Station →
Commanders, want to learn 'shaping operations'?... →
But with respect to real-world parallels, WoW’s architecture pales in comparison to EVE Online, a space-based game in which interstellar armadas battle for conquest across the universe. The twist to the game is that these fleets serve no emperor nor press for geographic control.
Season 5 Has Begun →
The fifth StarCraft II League season has arrived! At this time, Season 4 milestones have been awarded, and bonus pools and standings have been reset.
Soyuz Ready for Wintery Launch to the Space... →
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers will launch aboard their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft at 13:16 UTC (8:16 a.m. EST) Wednesday
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Inside the ISS - Time Lapse →
kim jong-un looking at things →
Reyndu að smygla smjöri til Noregs →
Samkvæmt fréttablaðinu Adresseavisen reyndu mennirnir að smygla rúmlega 200 kílógrömmum af smjöri til landsins. Smjörinu var skipt niður í 500 gramma pakka.
Brian Cox with Simon Pegg demonstrates why atoms... →
‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the... →
It all let up to ten years ago today, December 19, 2001, when dream became a reality and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released in theaters nationwide.
Blackburn's Scott Dann out for six weeks with... →
“but in our last match he was hurt and it now transpires he will be out for six weeks with a ruptured testicle.”
North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death... →
What the Higgs Boson Does →
He Gave a Lovely Light →
Season 5 Ladder Map Pool Update →
Beginning with Season 4, we experimented with prioritizing tournament-style maps on the StarCraft II ladder. This has been working out very well not only because it’s allowed pro players better opportunities to practice on the ladder, but also because players across all skill levels can now experience the tournament feel when playing on Battle.net.
Paul Allen ætlar út í geim →
Auðkýfingurinn og íslandsvinurinn Paul Allen hefur tilkynnt áætlanir sínar um að send ómannaðar eldflaugar á sporbraut um jörðu. Flaugarnar munu ferja vistir og annan farm til Alþjóðlegu geimstöðvarinnar.
21-year-old memory champ breaks records →
The 21-year-old winner of the 2011 World Memory Championships shattered his own record last week, recalling 300 of 400 spoken numbers. That’s over 100 more than he previously recalled.
Trillion FPS Camera Captures Advancing Light Waves... →
What MIT’s device (designed by Professor Ramesh Raskar and team) does is to use “femtosecond laser illumination, picosecond-accurate detectors and mathematical reconstruction techniques” to illuminate a scene and then capture the pulses of laser light.
Xbox Live brought to you by today’s sponsor as... →
There’s a principle at work here. Microsoft is selling your eyeballs and you don’t get a cut of that.
Hálshöggvin fyrir galdra og fjölkynngi →
Innanríkisráðuneyti landsins sendi frá sér tilkynningu um aftökuna í morgun og áréttar að galdrar séu bannaðir með lögum í Sádi-Arabíu.
Rumor: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developer GSC shut down →
Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, creators of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, have reportedly shut down. The details regarding the closure are currently very s.k.e.t.c.h.y.
Season 4 Lock Coming Soon →
If you’re pursuing a league promotion, there’s no time like the present! The Season 4 lock will go into effect on Tuesday, December 13 at 13:30 CET.
Mars Orbiters Will Attempt to Take Pictures of the... →
“For Phoenix we got a bit lucky with HiRISE in terms of the geometry, giving us a high probability of success. It may not work out so well for MSL. What I’d really like is to capture the rover hanging from the skycrane, but the timing may be difficult.”
New Xbox Dashboard features leave Indie Games in... →
Now that the new Xbox 360 Dashboard is out there, many are finding the new features don’t extend to Indie Games.
GTR3 announced: in a silly way. →
It’s been a while now but the lovely chaps over at Simbin studios have just announced a new game in the fantastic GTR series of GT Racing sims: GTR3. The closest they’ve come lately to any kind of sequel after GTR2 was an addon pack for the Race 07 series
Awesome NASA Video Captures What Looks Like an... →
The unknown object appeared when a Sun’s coronal mass ejection (CME) reached planet Mercury. Watch the video and judge by yourself.