Monday Links
A new gaming review site has opened up called "Action Button." I mention it because the writing is very strong in a wicked kind of way, and Thom Moyles, one of my favorite gaming writers, has two reviews up already. Check it out here.Mattthew Sakey's excellent Culture Clash column has a new installment, and it's an interesting look at Crackdown. Read it here.
A DQ reader (who wishes to remain anonymous) has started a new website dedicated to Linux gaming. It's called Linux Gaming World, and you can read it here.
William Barnes sends a link to a webcomic called "DM of the Rings" at a site called "Twenty Sided." Very funny, and you can read it here.
Sirius sent in a link to a story about a magnetar:
When it comes to eerie astrophysical effects, the neutron stars commonly known as magnetars are hard to beat. The massive remnants of exploded stars, magnetars are the size of mountains but weigh as much as the sun, and have magnetic fields hundreds of trillions of times more powerful than the Earth’s, which pushes our compass needles north.
This particular magnetar was observed emitting what has been described as a "giant cosmic belch." Read about it here.
Finally, from David Gloier, a link to a story about the deciphering of an accoustic mystery. Here's an excerpt:
The ancient mystery surrounding the great acoustics of the theater at Epidaurus in Greece has been solved.
The theater, dating to the 4th century B.C. and arranged in 55 semi-circular rows, remains the great masterwork of Polykleitos the Younger. Audiences of up to an estimated 14,000 have long been able to hear actors and musicians—unamplified—from even the back row of the architectural masterpiece.
Find out how it works here.
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