Sunday, September 7, 2014

9/7/14 Today's Inquiries

I thought I'd go a little "nerd" today.

The Links:

About 13 years after its release, Halo is still an excellent game which bends the tired shooter genre in a fun direction. Kotaku takes a look at one of it's early iconic levels.


An interview with Austin Grossman. He's the writer behind games like Thief, System Shock, and Trespasser, which is the subject of this interview.

If you pirate the new Sims game it will become a pixellated mess. Here's the thing, do people even pirate games much anymore? Or is this another example of EA being super paranoid and treating it's customers like thieves?

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett are having their novel Good Omens adapted into a BBC radio play.

It looks like AMC is going to try and spinoff The Walking Dead.

If your internet is slow tomorrow, this is why.

I like watches. I like smartphones. I want watches and phones to do some of the same things. Most of all, I want cool gadgets simply for the fun of tinkering with them. Motorola will be releasing their long awaited smart watch soon. Here's Ars Technica's first hands-on with the watch.


Big bank Barclays wants to give it's customers fingerprint readers instead of PINs for accessing their accounts. I wonder if they'll still use those stupid security questions for when your print-reader breaks?

The owner of a brothel was instrumental in getting Tesla Motors to build it's giant new factory in Nevada.

Bill Gates, apparently bored of Common Core, wants to reinvent history class. The basic idea is to teach the history of the world in long sweeping arcs focused on trends and innovations and progress.
“Big History” did not confine itself to any particular topic, or even to a single academic discipline. Instead, it put forward a synthesis of history, biology, chemistry, astronomy and other disparate fields, which Christian wove together into nothing less than a unifying narrative of life on earth. 
A very large dinosaur has been found. Very large.

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