Sim City 3000 was the greatest game ever created for a computer. Sim City 4 was a disappointment. Sim City 5 (or just SimCity on the official web site) is coming in 2013. Will it be the new "greatest game ever?" Or another dog? P.S. "Sim City" is not the same as "The Sims."
Category: Fun
Happy continents
Pangaea: when the continents were cuddling. From http://lnyn.tumblr.com/post/16396686872
Apple to Apples
HT: Cyberbrethren
Sounds from the past
This brings back memories:
Look beneath your feet
From XKCD, HT: Webmonk
Around the web 1/29/2011
Mountain lion in St. Louis County! -- This doesn't happen too often. A night-time wildlife camera captured a mountain lion in suburban St. Louis, less than ten miles from our home. We're a little more used to opossums, raccoons, deer, and wild turkeys around here. I don't worry too much about mountain lions when hiking …
NASA going nowhere?
From Yahoo! News: Senators to NASA chief: Go somewhere specific President Obama's budget proposal would axe NASA's planned trip to the moon. So where should NASA send astronauts? The long-term goal is to send astronauts to Mars, but what are good shorter-term objectives? Here are two items that caught my attention regarding a future trip …
New York City — A Montana Native’s Perception
Being that the dreaded Yankees won the World Series, here is my map of New York City, as originally posted in December 2007. A couple days ago I commented (click here) on a map of Montana printed by The New Yorker Magazine. (I got the map from Strange Maps). Those Easterners know that Montana has …
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The Chemistry Song
My daughter did the "burn the nut" experiment in her high school chemistry class yesterday. In this experiment, the nut is set up under a calorimeter (which could be as simple as a glass beaker with a thermometer, though other setups work better), the nut is burned, the water warms up, and the student calculates …
Help for the geographically impaired
From The Onion: World Map Rearranged To Accommodate Poor Geography Skills Of Americans—Nations Ordered Alphabetically This is really going to help me with all of those little island countries in the Caribbean and South Pacific. HT: The Map Room Grace and Peace
Happy mole day!
In honor of Avogadro's number (6.02 x1023), today is mole day. According to some who celebrate this day, celebrations can actually begin at 6:02 on 10/23. National Mole Day Foundation Mole Day Jokes -- there are some new ones here I had not seen before. Grace and Peace
How to clean the inside of your monitor screen
I know how to clean my computer monitor, but hadn't really given much thought to how to clean the inside surface of the monitor screen. Here's how: http://www.raincitystory.com/flash/screenclean.swf HT: Be Bold, Be Gentle
Nietzsche Mints
From ThinkGeek.com: Flavorless Nihilist Mints. Sigh. Life is without meaning. It is bleak, empty, and anything we assign value to is completely false. We could say, for instance, that these Nihilist Mints symbolize that blankness of meaning, but then that would be a contradiction as we would be saying that Nihilist Mints mean something. They …
Preconceptual science
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Concentric circles emanating from glowing red dot
Earthquake and tsunami news from the Onion News Network: HT: Geographic travels with Catholicgauze Grace and Peace
Cleaning the Alps
When walking through the forests and meadows of the Austrian and German Alps, we've joked about how they must come out with vacuum cleaners to keep everything so neat and orderly. Here's how the Swiss keep their part of the Alps clean: From MySwitzerland.com
Dolphin Bubble Rings
Gandalf can blow smoke rings. Dolphins can blow bubble rings! HT: The Dynamic Earth, who has a brief discussion of the fluid dynamics involved. Grace and Peace
Humor for the week
I was in need of some humor this week. Here are a few things that have made me laugh: 1. Church Reduces Carbon Footprint; Worships in the Dark (from The Sacred Sandwich). Here are a few quotes: In an effort to stem the tide of global warming, Raintree Christian Fellowship began worshipping in the dark …
More Google Earth — Car on side of building
Car on the side of a building, The Hague, Netherlands:
More Google Earth — iPod Indian
Indian with ear buds, east of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada:
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