•           ContactCopy   

  Copy contact information efficiently Select contact information such as name, address, phone number and email address in any application. With just a keystroke you can copy all data to your contact database.

                           
   

•           Driftmoon Alpha 7! - Instant Kingdom   

  We nearly completed all of the new areas last August. But when testing the whole game through back then, we discovered some areas of the game-play and the content, that we wanted to tune a bit further to make them just right. It was a relatively large and time-consuming task, but now that we’ve spent the last two weeks playing and replaying, we’re really happy we decided to do it. Why? Simply because we ourselves have now had so much fun with our own beta-testing play-throughs. And if we’ve really enjoyed adventuring in Driftmoon ourselves (even though we know beforehand pretty much everything that’ll happen), we have high hopes that you will too

                           
   

•           Home | GTB   

  Gratuitous Tank Battles is coming to the PC and Mac, developed by Positech Games, makers of Democracy, Kudos and of course Gratuitous Space Battles. Gratuitous Tank Battles is an RTS/Tower Defense hybrid with online elements and customisable units. The player can take the role of the defender or the attacker in a series of top-down explodey battles. A built-in map editor will allow easy sharing of custom maps and defensive challenges with other GTB players in a similar fashion to GSB’s challenge system.

                           
   

•           Botanicula – Amanita Design   

  Botanicula is point’n'click exploration game created by Jára Plachý and Amanita Design. It’s about a bunch of five friends - little tree creatures who set out for a journey to save the last seed from their home tree which is infested by evil parasites. The original soundtrack and sound effects are created by Czech alternative band DVA. Release of Botanicula is planned for early 2012.

                           
   

•           Headline Generator ThoughtOffice Brainstorming Software   

                               
 

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•           AKW Books. Quality new eBooks at low prices   

                               
   

•           Wizard’s Tower Press — a science fiction and fantasy publisher   

  Welcome to Wizard’s Tower Press, a science fiction and fantasy publisher. We concentrate mainly on making out-of-print works available once more as e-books, and helping other small presses exploit the e-book market. We will also publish a small number of limited-print-run anthologies with a view to encouraging diversity in the science fiction and fantasy field. Finally we publish Salon Futura magazine, an online non-fiction magazine devoted to discussion of science fiction and fantasy literature.

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•           Rebellionstore.com | eBooks in New Worlds of Fantastic Fiction   

                               
   

•           1889 Books – Make Your Brain Happy   

  1889 Labs is an independent publisher dedicated to producing the best strange fiction conceivable by the human brain. Catering to a specific demographic of men and women between the ages of 3 and 97, we print everything from kids books to serious stories for adults. Our goal is to bring you on an amazing adventure onscreen and off. We hope you’ll take us up on the offer.

                           
   

•           Dancing Fools Press   

  Welcome to DFP! We’re dedicated to bringing well-written, character-focused stories to readers with a hunger for the good stuff and an understanding that quality fiction isn’t found only on the shelves in a chain bookstore. We offer an alternative path to publication for authors who want to have more control over their work and are ready to thrive in a professional and supportive environment.

                           
   

•           OR Books   

  Welcome to OR Books A great, exciting project! —Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing OR Books is a new type of publishing company. It embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business. More

                           
   

•           Closed Circle Book Store » Closed Circle   

                               
   

•           Steven Lyle Jordan - Novels   

                               
   

•           Stoney Compton, Author - What I write . . .   

                               
   

•           The Big Idea: Courtney Schafer – Whatever   

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•           fosdem.org   

  If you’ll be at FOSDEM, come and hear how OSI is changing: http://t.co/93rLAi1I

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•           Climate scientist disowned by Newt Gingrich speaks out over book spat | Environment | guardian.co.uk   

  Last two paragraphs of this link from @stevesilberman are the most disturbing. http://t.co/634BY4MH FoIA requests as antiscience weapon.

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•           I Won a Major Award! - Skepchick   

  You guys! I Won a Major Award! http://t.co/AGfNihgH

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•           Campaigning inspiration for WoodWatchers, from WoodWatchers by the Woodland Trust   

  Quick and easy planning update - what is happening in England? #WoodWatch #nppf - http://t.co/Xzw3vCJF

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•           New Movies For January, And Where In London To See Them | Londonist   

  This month’s new movies…paired up with the most apt London cinemas to see them in http://t.co/96FrvaFN

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•           As Kodak Fades, Workers Remember Their Moment - WSJ.com   

  At Kodak, Workers Remember Their Moment http://t.co/tEwXoc2I

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•           The Ultimate Productivity Blog   

  I shall now be following the useful advice of the Ultimate Productivity Blog: http://t.co/F9XJJFWQ via @fatbusinessman

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•           P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » On the link between community, monetization, and gifting   

  Community is woven from gifts. Unlike today’s market system, whose built-in scarcity compels competition in which more for me is less for you, in a gift economy the opposite holds. Because people in gift culture pass on their surplus rather than accumulating it, your good fortune is my good fortune: more for you is more for me. Wealth circulates, gravitating toward the greatest need. In a gift community, people know that their gifts will eventually come back to them, albeit often in a new form. Such a community might be called a “circle of the gift.”

                           
   

•           Raven’s Cry - Game Info   

                               
   

•           Dishonored - New Game of the Day #33 - Made 2 Game   

  What? A new steampunk-inspired stealth/action game from one of the bods behind the legendary Thief and Deus Ex franchises When? Q2 2012 Where? PS3, PC and Xbox 360

           

  • What? A new steampunk-inspired stealth/action game from one of the bods behind the legendary Thief and Deus Ex franchises

    When? Q2 2012

    Where? PS3, PC and Xbox 360

                       
       
         
   

•           This Post Could Get Me Thrown in Jail for Life…   

  This Post Could Get Me Thrown in Jail for Life… http://t.co/ymY3jzAJ

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•           The Best Ideas of 2011: The Power of Collective Action | Humanitarian News   

  Blogpost:  The Best Ideas of 2011: The Power of Collective Action http://t.co/F06oR9uO

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•           Developers’ Most Anticipated Games of 2012 • Articles • Eurogamer.net   

  Dylan Cuthbert, Ken Levine, Peter Molyneux and friends tell us about their most anticipated games of 2012: http://t.co/W8URzLEB

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•           Learning to Say No—Unless They’re Paying - Ecademy   

  Learning to Say No—Unless They’re Paying [David McQueen] - I have two key mentors for my businesses. They add mas… http://t.co/BqUOwfo9

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•           Great to see Bradford talent highlighted RT : Rise   

  Great to see Bradford talent highlighted RT @NickAhad: Rise of underground theatre in W Yorks http://t.co/MsNjlZds @ADatMill @invisibleflock

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•           BBC’s John McCarthy meets Phillip Cribb, a botanis   

  BBC’s John McCarthy meets Phillip Cribb, a botanist & orchid specialist at Kew who’s spent 30yrs plant hunting in China http://t.co/u5hXur3n

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•           ACLU fights Kafkaesque secret Occupy Boston Twitter subpoena - Boing Boing   

  This legal case is America’s future - regardless of your voting persuasion, we must join together and reject it: http://t.co/bWGgffQ0

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•           A modest proposal to give Free Software equal legal standing as proprietary. | Carlo Piana :: Law is Freedom ::   

  A modest proposal to give Free Software equal legal standing as proprietary - http://t.co/cXzm0e3c raises important points #law

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•           farmlandgrab.org | Accaparement des terres : un processus opaque et complexe   

  Outre les 73% d’acquisition pour motifs agricoles, le reste est donc réparti entre le secteur forestier, la séquestration carbone, l’extraction des minerais et le tourisme. Dans 9 pays tropicaux, 258 millions d’ha de forêt sont déjà sous concession du fait d’une demande croissante de bois d’œuvre mais aussi sous la pression de la culture d’huile de palme. Quant à la demande en minerais, elle est elle aussi croissante du fait de l’industrialisation des pays en développement. De grands territoires sont ainsi réservés à la concession, rendant les droits fonciers des populations locales précaires alors même qu’une partie seulement sera réellement exploitée. C’est le cas en Amérique du Sud, où l’exploitation minière représente 23% des transactions foncières.

                           
   

•           Oasis   

  Nomad is an beta Android application that allows you to communicate over a private or public social network called Oasis. It allows you to create digital snapshots with your camera or your photo gallery, share and comment it with your friends and the world from your Smartphone. The particularity of Nomad is its ease and its asynchronous management of data. Imagine you are in an area without network coverage, or imagine that you have access to the Internet periodically, with Nomad you can still create your digital content, geolocate, save and send it when you can. When it’s connected to Internet Nomad save the news online on your Android device and you can read them when you are offline and also comment it. On offline mode, Nomad keeps safely your data created who will still be editable until they are sent once an internet connection found. With Nomad enjoy the “social and digital nomadism”.

                           
   

•           The Last of Us (game)   

  Abandoned cities reclaimed by nature.  A population decimated by a modern plague.  Survivors are killing each other for food, weapons; whatever they can get their hands on. Joel, a brutal survivor, and Ellie, a brave young teenage girl who is wise beyond her years, must work together if they hope to survive their journey across the US.

                           
   

•           Dishonored (game)   

                               
   

•           Adequately Good - JavaScript Module Pattern: In-Depth - by Ben Cherry   

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•           Games::Construder Information Page   

  Construder is a 3D game written in Perl and C, featuring a dynamic infinite world of cubes to explore and change. In an artificial infinite structure the player has to gather resources for construction purposes and his basic survival. It’s 3D engine and basic game play is inspired by Minecraft and Infiniminer. The goal is to get 10,000,000 score points and get the “Construder” rank. There are multiple ways to gain score points: building blocks in the world (for example for your home base), constructing items (such as teleporters for easier travel, message beacons for navigation or even programmable robots - which you can program to help you building things or gathering resources). Another way to earn many score points is to finish construction assignments. Dangers the player might run into are starvation, as all his actions require biological energy and the randomly appearing robot drones, which - on a task to cleanup the world - teleport the player far away

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•           Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share   

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•           Xi Game Engine for XNA   

  Xi Game Engine Feature / Motivation List Game-centric Object Architecture - Having worked on several games, I factored out a common object structure that applies to all the ones I’ve worked on. It consists of an Application object, a Screen object, ScreenTransition objects (transition in and transition out), ActorGroup objects, and finally, the main object, Actor. All of these objects are serializable at any time, and little to no custom serialization code need be written for user objects that extend these. A big problem with Ox is that it exposed a lot of functionality to the user, but it gave the user no idea of how to structure an actual application. By providing this object model out of the box, the developer gets started clearly and quickly. Facet System (AKA, ‘Components’) - Many newer game engines use some type of component system to allow actors (AKA Entities in other engines) to be composed at design-time. This allows new actor behaviors to be contrived by combining Facets on an Actor at design-time with little to no additional code. Only a few facets exist currently, but more will be forthcoming.

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•           Ox Game Engine for XNA   

  Project Description Ox is a mature 3D XNA game engine ready for use in your free or commercial project. It features a 3D scene system with a visual scene editor, a 2D gui system (also with its own editor), JigLibX physics, fully-integrated XNAnimation animation system, and C# game scripting system.

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•           Microsoft Research FUSE Labs - Kodu Game Lab   

  Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills. Join our community, and discover games created by others and share your game at KoduGameLab.com. Kodu for the PC is available to download for free. Kodu for the XBox is also available in the USA on the XBox Marketplace, in the Indie Games channel for about $5.

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•           Game Programming Tutorials Forum | Dream.In.Code   

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•           Alice.org   

  Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

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•           Getting started with XNA Development   

  Getting Started: The I Hate to Read Version Everything you need to make games with the XNA framework for the PC is free. You need to learn to program in C# before you can make games with the XNA framework. You will need to make sure your PC has a video card that supports the minimum requirements of the XNA framework. You will need to install some applications (all free) from Microsoft that you will use to make games. Nothing about game development with the XNA framework is drag-and-drop, you have to program it all, but the sky is the limit. You will not immediately be able to make your dream game, but if you work hard and learn the basics, you can someday.

                           
   

•           Jaws » HTML5 Javascript game engine / development library   

  Jaws HTML5 javascript game lib Jaws is a 2D game lib powered by HTML5. It started out only doing canvas but is now also supporting ordinary DOM based sprites through the same API. Jaws is very much work in progress, so expect big changes within the first months of 2011. Game engine highlights - Sprite() - Onscreen, movable, scalable objects - Game states - Separate sections of your game for better organized code - SpriteSheet() and Animation() - Load spritesheets and animate frames - Assets - Jaws will preload all your images before the game starts - Documented code and explained examples - Does Not depend on any other javascript library - Builds on lessons learned from years of developing Chingu, a Ruby game lib

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•           Kodu - Microsoft Research   

  Kodu is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone. The programming environment runs on the Xbox, allowing rapid design iteration using only a game controller for input.

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•           Gosu, 2D game development library   

  Gosu is a 2D game development library for the Ruby and C++ programming languages, available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It has been in development since 2001. The C++ version is also available for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Visual C++ 2008 (recommended) or 2010 required for the Windows C++ version, but the free Express versions are fine. Both languages have access to: 2D graphics and text, accelerated by 3D hardware Sound samples and music in various formats Keyboard, mouse and gamepad input

                           
   

•           Cobra Information   

  Cobra is a new programming language, designed specifically with the independent games developer in mind. It combines an easy and intuitive language with a host of features and special effects that will allow you to rapidly create games that are easy to play and stunning to watch! Cobra is designed and tested by other users of RAD programming languages, so it is specifically geared to give indie developers the kind of language that they’ve been missing out on!

                           
   

•           RPG Maker VX - Official Site | Download here   

  With RPG Maker VX you can create games with a resolution of 544x416, 32bit colours with a smooth, steady framerate of 60 fps. The ability to have characters run is now included as a standard function and the in-game default font has been changed from previous versions for easier reading.

                           
   

•           PySoy, a 3D Cloud Game Engine for Python   

  PySoy is a 3d cloud game engine for Python. It’s object-oriented API is designed for rapid game development while speed critical functions, such as physics processing and rendering, are implemented in C. Cloud games can be played without having to wait for downloads or managing updates.  Python-based games will run on a server and be playable on Android phones, embedded in web pages,  XMPP chat clients, and even game consoles.

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•           Chingu - OpenGL accelerated 2D Game framework in Ruby   

  - Lightning fast OpenGL accelerated 2D graphics! - A basic game object with x,y,angle,color,scaling and zorder. Hit the ground running! - Basic collision detection, box vs box, circle vs circle, box vs circle! - Support classes for Animation, Parallax-scrolling, Particles etc. - A simple and robust game state system to keep your levels sorted - Asset-solutions, load your sounds and images quick ‘n easy. - Pluginable, stackable logic called ‘traits’

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•           migraine - search.cpan.org   

  DB schema migrator inspired by Rails migrations. Allows developers to store changes to a DB schema in “migration” files, then run the migrator to get all the pending migrations for some DB executed. That allows for easy and automated upgrading of any database used for a given project. Executing migrations just up to a point (as opposed to “up to the latest version”), or applying single migrations (say, applying 4, even if 3 is still unapplied) is also supported.

                           
   

•           Net::OperaLink - search.cpan.org   

                               
   

•           Nine Stubborn Brain Myths That Just Won’t Die, Debunked by Science   

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•           Mindfulness-the unconventional research of psychologist Ellen Langer | Harvard Magazine Sep-Oct 2010   

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•           Execution through Processes, Projects and Communities   

  “When we talk about execution- achieving some business outcome- each of us has our own bias for how.  Some of us think about who we will task with an assignment.  Others, particularly if it is a game-changing initiative for our company, will begin to think about the team, the stakeholders and the initiative’s leadership.  For this discussion, we are going to focus on the organizing structure which will most effectively achieve business outcomes. “

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•           perl6/nqp - GitHub   

  This is “Not Quite Perl”—a compiler for quickly generating PIR routines from Perl6-like code.  The key feature of NQP is that it’s designed to be a very small compiler (as compared with, say, perl6 or Rakudo) and is focused on being a high-level way to create compilers and libraries for virtual machines (such as the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]).  Unlike a full-fledged implementation of Perl 6, NQP strives to have as small a runtime footprint as it can, while still providing a Perl 6 object model and regular expression engine for the virtual machine.

                           
   

•           PC Gaming is a Donor-Supported Industry with the Pretense of Selling a Product - Falkvinge on Infopolicy   

  A “purchase” of a digitally distributed game is a conscious pledge not to download it for free. It’s a decision by the player to financially support the developer, the publisher, and the distributor. Even though they could easily save money and get the exact same experience — or an experience with negligible differences — by pirating the game, the player decides, no, these people deserve my money. Nowhere is this more evident than with the Humble Indie Bundle, a rotating bundle of independently developed games “sold” at a pay-what-you-want price. Donate at least a penny, and you get a link to download games. Once again, the donors know what they’re doing; it’s not the semantic trick of calling it a “purchase” that helps these bundles raise so much money. This isn’t cynical pedantry, though. The fact that PC gaming is a thriving digital media industry supported by voluntary donations is a wonderful thing. It’s living proof that creative endeavors can be financially viable based solely on their fans’ desire to reward the creators, assuming the creators treat their fans with dignity and respect

           
  • Valve and other digital distributors don’t make money because they provide a better service than pirates; they make money because they treat their customers with respect. It turns out that it’s enough to simply match the convenience of piracy, and to avoid treating customers like criminals, to get people to pay the higher (non-zero) price.
                       
           
  • The fact that people pay for it anyway doesn’t mean that they’re buying anything. It means that they’re donating.
                       
       
         
   

•           sorear/niecza - GitHub   

  This is ‘Niecza’, which is a Perl 6 implementation focusing on optimization and efficient implementation research. It targets the Common Language Runtime

                           
   

•           P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » The coming war on general computation – Cory Doctorow @ #28C3   

  The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human race. The problem is twofold: first, there is no known general-purpose computer that can execute all the programs we can think of except the naughty ones; second, general-purpose computers have replaced every other device in our world. There are no airplanes, only computers that fly. There are no cars, only computers we sit in. There are no hearing aids, only computers we put in our ears. There are no 3D printers, only computers that drive peripherals. There are no radios, only computers with fast ADCs and DACs and phased-array antennas. Consequently anything you do to “secure” anything with a computer in it ends up undermining the capabilities and security of every other corner of modern human society.

                           
   

•           Do We Really Have To Prepare For The Fourth Box? - Falkvinge on Infopolicy   

  Last night, the United States Senate ignored all such science and voted 86 to 13 that anybody could be imprisoned indefinitely, or even executed, without a trial or charges. 86 to 13! This is what I mean by the United States being already lost. For what happens when it doesn’t matter how much people try to adhere to laws, but can be thrown in jail and even executed anyway? When there’s not even a pretense of a rigged mock trial? I tweeted about that yesterday. I even referenced the Fourth Box. Also, the wordspin has already started to apply this to ordinary dissenters. People who don’t agree with The Man. The indefinite detention and execution thing in the United States will only apply to “terrorists”, but at the same time, ordinary protesters in a rally were just labeled “low-level terrorists”. There’s no rocket science needed to see where this is going

                           
   

•           Why Git is Better Than X   

                               
   

•           SAMSUNG’s Digital World - Support   

                               
 

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•           Colour Experience   

  Central to our work as an educational charity is the Colour Experience.  We work with people of all ages introducing them to the joy and science of colour through workshops, talks, outreach and online resources. If you’re a group within travelling distance of Bradford you could book a visit to the Colour Experience at Perkin House and choose from a wide range of hands-on workshops and other activities including a tour of our interactive gallery.  If you’re further afield then ask us about our outreach services.

                           
   

•           SDC - Society of Dyers and Colourists   

                               
 

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•           Ceylon: Welcome to Ceylon   

  Welcome to Ceylon Ceylon is a programming language for writing large programs in a team environment. The language is elegant, highly readable, extremely typesafe, and makes it easy to get things done. And it’s easy to learn for programmers who are familiar with mainstream languages used in business computing. Ceylon has a full-featured Eclipse-based development environment, allowing developers to take best advantage of the powerful static type system. Programs written in Ceylon execute on any JVM. What? Ceylon is a general-purpose, imperative, statically-typed, block-structured, object-oriented, higher-order language featuring a syntax similar to Java and C#, and a type system based on the notion of principal types.

                           
 

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•           The 1% have always been with us, but they used to   

  The 1% have always been with us, but they used to have more style. Great social commentary at end of this story. http://t.co/2GbWqyL2

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•           New Statesman - Preview: Richard Dawkins interviews Christopher Hitchens   

  For those asking about our Hitchens interview, here’s a preview. Copies selling fast but still available. http://t.co/dCKtmnFR

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•           Sweden Lets Citizens Run Its Twitter account - The Next Web   

  amazing: Sweden lets a different citizen take over its official twitter account every week http://t.co/b1S0pq0g (h/t @tararobertson)

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•           content is king. distribution   

  content is king. distribution is queen. the killer app is credibility… http://t.co/rTvnBzd7

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•           BBC News - Watership Down author Richard Adams angry at home plan   

  The land Richard Adams called Watership Down is one of the loveliest places I know. Can’t believe it’s set for building http://t.co/8wmZ7At8

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•           Kicking The Addiction to Managerial Heroin: The New Bottom Line Of Business - Forbes   

  Delighting the customer must be sustainable—a key value. No freebies! @jpbarela Where does delight stop? http://t.co/Kmk3CAPA h/t @ericries

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•           Fish Pond | World Concern Global Gift Guide   

  Need a gift for the fisherman on your list? Stock a fish pond for a struggling family in Bangladesh in their name! http://t.co/ac4MkT7t

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•           The bugs that ate Monsanto | Grist   

  Their current success is due in large part to brilliant marketing. The company’s approach was both compelling—their products were sold as the key to making large-scale farming far simpler and more predictable—and aggressive: Monsanto made it virtually impossible for most farmers to find conventional seeds for sale in most parts of the country. Despite promises of improved productivity, enhanced nutritional content, or extreme weather tolerance—none of which has ever come to market—Monsanto has only ever produced seeds with two genetically modified traits: either herbicide tolerance or pesticide production. And even those traits never lived up to the marketing hype.

                           
   

•           Stating the Obvious: Hunger Is a Disease - NYTimes.com   

  Some symptoms of hunger I’m experiencing: sleeplessness; irritability (also occasional patience and gentleness, obviously not bad things, but see “weakness”); stomach cramping and other gastrointestinal symptoms; general achiness; headache; loss of cognition (that is, I seem stupider than usual, except for when I feel more insightful, insightfulness that may be delusional); hyperosmia (fancy word for “extremely sensitive to smells” — both good and bad); exhaustion (see “sleeplessness”); weakness; distraction (extreme, not like checking your e-mail every minute); distraction (did I say that?); lethargy; weight loss (I know, you’re envious, but obviously this can go too far). And a different kind of distraction: the near-constant thought of food.

                           
   

•           Does Congress Even Realize That The Courts Appear To Think That SOPA Is Already In Force? | Techdirt   

  All without hearing from the other side. Seem excessive? It sure does. Venkat notes how extraordinary these remedies are. Think about it for a second: based solely on the declaration of a Philip Morris employee, the court is ordering the full transfer not just of websites, but of any funds being sent to a website. That’s insane and a clear violation of any reasonable due process.

                           
   

•           EU Council Quietly Adopts ACTA, By Hiding It In An Agriculture And Fisheries Meeting | Techdirt   

  The Council adopted a decision authorising the signing of an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) with Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States. ACTA is aimed at establishing an international framework to improve the enforcement of intellectual property right laws and create improved international standards for actions against large-scale infringements of intellectual property. Negotiations were concluded in November 2010. So, continuing the tradition of denying European citizens any opportunity to offer their views on ACTA, the Council of national ministers employed the shabby trick of pushing the treaty through by adopting it without debate at a meeting whose main business had nothing to do with international trade.

                           
   

•           HDR photography software & plugin for Lightroom, Aperture & Photoshop - Tone Mapping, Exposure Fusion & High Dynamic Range Imaging for photography   

  Great pictures on cloudy days Shadowless hazy sunlight or an overcast sky usually results in dull-looking photographs. The tone mapping tool of Photomatix can turn them into great-looking images. Check out this image as an example. › Saving time in post-processing Photomatix Pro is designed for productivity—automatic blending, unlimited stacking, easy comparison of results and batch processing save hours of masking and layers work in image editing programs.

             
               
 

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