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  • Earth and Beyond

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    A good example of mini-story events in mmoe – in its review of Earth and Beyond Online, Gamespot talks about a scripted event controlled by a game employee in the guise of an NPC. Clever stuff.

  • 1000th post

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    New Mars forums reaches the 1000 post mark! We’ve come a long way, baby…

  • Writing

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    Something popped into my head today as I was scribbling down some notes during a supervision: does the fact that I write with a pencil (as opposed to a pen or biro) affect my writing style, and on a higher level, my method of thinking? Pencils provide a much less constrained and linear way of…

  • MGS

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    Getting a stereo view of Mars – the boys at NASA are pretty damn clever; they’re planning to obtain 3D images of areas the Mars Global Surveyor has already covered by pointing the spacecraft off-nadir (so it doesn’t point directly down).

  • Emotions

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    While I have some issues with neurobiology lectures, I definitely don’t with our supervisions. They’re usually a great mixture of brainstorming and learning of interesting facts. Take, for example, today, when I learned that when cats are hostile to each other and their hair stands on end, it’s because their hair makes them look much…