Archive for May, 2007
May 13, 2007
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The problem with writing in games is that we point out when it’s terrible, but we don’t praise it enough when it’s good.
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For all the book’s popular success, though, Hofstadter worried that its audience was overlooking its fundamental argument. “GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter,” he wrote later. “What is a s
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Confining himself from Friday through June 15 in a room at Flatfile Galleries, the 40-year-old Chicago resident has rigged a paintball gun to a Web camera, a computer and a motor, so anyone who clicks on the exhibit’s Web site can aim and fire at him just
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May 8, 2007
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Welcome to Managua, quite possibly the only place on Earth where upward of 2 million people manage to live, work, and play—not to mention find their way around—in a city where the streets have no names.
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May 4, 2007
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There is growing interest in the use of shipping containers as the basis for habitable structures. These “icons of globalization” are relatively inexpensive, structurally sound and in abundant supply.
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A Dolmen (also known as cromlechs, antas, Hünengräber, Hunebedden, quoits, and portal dolmens) is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones (megaliths) supporting a large flat horizontal capstone.
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“From a distance, as we rounded a bend and first caught sight of it, I couldn’t believe the strange structure ahead of me was actually real.”
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