Links!
For your reading pleasure, as always.Mike Kolar sent me a link to a new gaming blog called "Law of the Game." It's a gaming blog, but from a legal persective, and the author (Mark Methenitis) is an excellent writer. You can read it here.
Matthew Sakey has a new installment of Culture Clash--this month, about gaming industry executives and the (surprise) stupid things they say in interviews. Here's an excerpt:
In the simplest terms, there are high-ranking people in the industry who have quite clearly lost the ability to think about what they say before they say it.
It's hard to be more accurate than that. Read it here.
There's an interesting article over at National Geographic on swarm theory, which you can read here.
The BBC reported this week that a secret chamber has been found inside the tomb of Qin Shihuang.
Qin Shihuang, as I've written about previously, was protected in death by the Terracotta Army, and if have no idea what that might be, then you're in for a treat here.
The full BBC article is here.
Steven Davis sent me a terrific link to a discussion of how color was used in ancient architecture (in reference to the 3D model of Rome I linked to last week). It's a totally fascinating article (with links to other excellent articles as well), and you can read it here.
This week's issue of The Escapist has an excellent article by Kieron Gillen about Lego Star Wars, and you can read it here.
Keith Ganey sent in a link to a binary marble adding machine. It's beautiful and very elegant in a mechanical sense, and you can see it here.
Daniel Willhite sent in a link to an article about a crazy biologist (who sounds totally entertaining). Here's an excerpt:
A Russian biologist has been trying to recreate a fully fledged Ice Age eco-system in a remote corner of Siberia, complete, if possible, with woolly mammoths.
...he is turning 160 sq km of Siberian "desert" back into the teeming wilderness of the late Ice Age, complete with grazing pastures and animals that have not been seen here for millennia.
Read the story here.
Jessie Leimkuehler sent in a link to a mind-blowing article about--well, just read the opening:
It may be possible to glimpse before the supposed beginning of time into the universe prior to the Big Bang, researchers now say.
Like I said, mind-blowing, and you can read it here.
Here's a second link from Jessie--a link to a picture of the moon Tethys. What's amazing, though, is looking at the western side of the moon. It's got a dent, which is the impact basin Odysseus.
Sirius sent me a link to an article in the Washington Post about the domestication of cats. Why were cats attracted to us? Because we had the food. Read about it here.
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