Bethesda Softworks today revealed a reimagined, action-adventure version of the classic first-person shooter Wolfenstein. Known officially as Wolfenstein: The New Order, the “what if?” title puts players in control of an American war hero named B.J. Blazkowicz in a world where the Nazis won World War II. … Read More
Obama Wants Federal Workers To Pay More for Pensions, Many Smokers Won’t Be Charged Extra Under Obamacare, Background Check Didn’t Catch Sheriff’s…
The president’s proposed budget would
hike pension contributions by federal workers. Countdown to the
screams of betrayed disbelief in 3 … 2 … 1 …
The Post Office
won’t cancel Saturday delivery, after all. So your junk mail
should arrive on schedule.
The man who killed Sheriff Eugene Crum of Mingo County, West
Virginia, had
passed a background check to the buy the gun he used, despite being
officially forbidden to buy firearms. Oh oh. Better pass
another law.
With its usual logic, the goverment
bleeds and browbeats us about smoking on the one hand, and then
makes smoking a preexisting condition under Obamacare,
for which insurers in many states are forbidden to charge higher
rates. Might as well light up; you’re paying for it,
anyway
Lithuanian authorities are
tracking construction and property sales via Google Maps in
order to catch tax evaders. Why didn’t the IRS— Never mind.
Perhaps a bit fatigued from the nostalgia-laden overseas
adventure, France has
begun pulling its troops from Mali.
The state of Washington is
suing a florist who refused to provide arrangements for a same-sex
wedding, because … a right is no good if you can’t turn it
into a compulsion?
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‘I felt like a tall blonde in the middle of Shanghai’
In our weekly profile of life in different parts of Sweden, Colombian-born entrepreneur Carlos Perdomo waxes poetic about Karlstad, a town that offers small-town charm, a bevy of foreign students, and no shortage of outdoor adventure. … Read More
Double Fine Adventure titled "Broken Age," gets a new site
Double Fine Productions' crowdfunded adventure title officially has a title: “Broken Age.” Previously called the “Double Fine Adventure” and known internally as codename “Reds,” the point-and-click tale should be ready for you to experience sometime in the second quarter of 2013, a little over a year after it smashed fundraising… … Read More
Between Man and Beast”: A great explorer with a secret
A renowned Victorian explorer stands before his colleagues, accused of fabricating accounts of the strange beasts he encountered in a remote jungle. The explorer responds by challenging the most energetic of these detractors to join him in an expedition back to the site of his celebrated discoveries. That’s the opener of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World,” a ripping adventure yarn published in the early 20th century, with a main character, Professor Challenger, thought by many to be based on the real-life physiologist William Rutherford.But as Monte Reel persuasively argues in his equally ripping (and far more intellectually satisfying) “Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm,” another likely model for Challenger is Paul Du Chaillu, the first modern naturalist to observe gorillas in their native habitat. This elusive, gallant and endearing man was born on a date and in a place unknown, to a mother who has never been identified. His story, as told by Reel, is both a tale of plucky self-invention and an ironic reflection on the sometimes ugly inner workings of the scientific world.Continue Reading… … Read More
Weekend game deals: Borderlands 2 $24, Natural Selection 2 $12.49
Topping Steam's recent discount, Get Games offers Borderlands 2 for only $23.99, which might be the cheapest we've seen it outside of services like CDKeysHere, as well as 50% off The Cave, Double Fine's recently released adventure title. Other noteworthy mentions include half off Natural Selection 2 and free access… … Read More
Resources and Pricing in Equal Money Capitalism
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