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Elite Force – Finished
I finished my first-ever first-person shooter (FPS) on Sunday. Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force is a shoot-em-up where you’re the second in command of a special task force formed on Voyager to handle problem situations (like, ya know, the ones they encounter in two out of three episodes). You run around with the awesomest of weapons and kill some sweet baddies, including Borg, Klingons, silly Humans, and some races not yet invented by Paramount. I love this game. This is the first FPS that I’ve been able to comfortably play since Doom II, especially control-wise. (I’m hoping that this will help me branch into other games that require jumping and…
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New houseplant!
So I had this really, really sad plant, right? I picked it at random at Wal-Mart (back when I still shopped there, of course), and then proceeded to kill it. If I watered it, it died. If I let it dry out a little more, it died. My vine thrived (well, sort of…) while this thing died. I didn’t even know what kind of plant it was, because there wasn’t a card in it. Let’s have a moment of silence for the nameless, specieless plant. … Finally, I decided to buy another houseplant. I like having the bookshelf in front of my window and by my bed covered in plants.…
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Midnight linkage
www.oldos.org | Main / HomePage » This is pretty f’ing awesome, particularly the info on Microsoft Bob.
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Einstein’s Theory ‘Improved’? » "Research from the University of St Andrews has revealed that a ‘simple’ fine-tuning in Einstein’s theory of gravity could solve a dark mystery in galaxies that has baffled astrophysicists for three- quarters of a century. " Radiation "Safe Zone" Migrates During Solar Cycle » Just plain cool.
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Midnight linkage
A List Apart: Articles: Improving Link Display for Print » The following three links are relatively old, but good references for webdesign. A List Apart: Articles: Thinking Outside the Grid » Are you creative enough to think outside the box? A List Apart: Articles: The Accessibility Hat Trick: Getting Abbreviations Right »