August 25, 2007 – 11:10 pm
From Gamasutra by John Harris.
The impulse to make video games easier can be traced to a fundamental change in perception over what a game should be. The older school of thought, which dates back and beyond the days of Space Invaders to the era of pinball, is that a game should measure the [...]
August 24, 2007 – 11:53 pm
From NationalGeographic.com.
An international team of 31 researchers found a number of strange animals while exploring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an underwater mountain range that runs from Iceland to the Azores islands west of Portugal (see Europe map).
Over the course of five weeks, the team cataloged a host of exotic worms, colorful corals, unusual sea cucumbers, and [...]
August 22, 2007 – 12:16 am
From Colors of Religion: Buddhism.
The principle colors involved in Buddhism are Blue, Black, White, Red, Green, and Yellow, and each — except for Black — are aligned to a specific Buddha.
See Five Wisdom Buddhas for the five qualities of the Buddha and each Buddha’s color.
Each of the five Buddhas first identifies a specific human [...]
August 20, 2007 – 10:28 pm
From International Primate Protection League.
The ACRES Wildlife Rescue Centre (AWRC) (located in Sungei Tengah Agrotech Park) will occupy two hectares (five acres) and will provide a safe haven for more than 400 wild animals rescued from illegal trade, potentially including primates (such as gibbons, macaques, and lorises), marsupials, reptiles, small ungulates, and small carnivores. The [...]
August 20, 2007 – 12:35 am
View at Marcello’s Calvin and Hobbes.
Wikipedia Calvin and Hobbes.
August 20, 2007 – 12:20 am
From Discover Magazine.
How is information coded in neural activity?
It is likely that mental information is stored not in single cells but in populations of cells and patterns of their activity. Although traveling bursts of voltage can carry signals across the brain quickly, those electrical spikes may not be the only—or even the main—way that information [...]