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[Setherick]

Nuclear blast radius website for T2K fans: http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

[Setherick]

The links just keep on coming. Stranded at sea on a cruise ship: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/us/passengers-face-2-more-days-of-foul-conditions-on-stranded-ship.xml;jsessionid=0CA7FAA81FB1C47010AE092AF46CC41B?f=21

[crash2455]

Delivery Drivers in riots:

http://www.npr.org/2013/02/02/170922704/in-cairo-couriers-take-big-risk-to-deliver-goods

[Review Cultist]

First Blood anyone?

Dirty World or even Killsplosion game fodder I think, maybe even street level Wild Talents or Call of Cthulhu with some work.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/12/christopher-dorner-shootout-big-bear-live

[Henry Hankovitch]

The latest Radiolab had an interesting segment on automated stock trading, and the resulting race to minimize delay of communications between trading centers.  Seemed immediately pertinent to a world like Eclipse Phase, where you might have AGIs handling most share-trading transactions, coupled with extremely long communication delays between various habitats.

http://www.radiolab.org/2013/feb/05/

[QuickreleasePersonalitY]

just came across this strange, occult society who have their own cant and forbidden hazing rituals...

what are they up to?

what are their motives?

what ice cream flavours do they love?

http://slangdesign.com/rppr/

wait, what's that so---NO CARRIER

[Teuthic]

The shutting off of street lights to actively reshape a city; it feels like it could have occult significance in an urban fantasy game like Unkown Armies.

Link: http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/half-of-detroit-s-streetlights-may-go-out-as-city-shrinks.html

[Setherick]

The latest Radiolab had an interesting segment on automated stock trading, and the resulting race to minimize delay of communications between trading centers.  Seemed immediately pertinent to a world like Eclipse Phase, where you might have AGIs handling most share-trading transactions, coupled with extremely long communication delays between various habitats.

http://www.radiolab.org/2013/feb/05/

I've been following HFT - altho not as closely as I should have been - for the past six years. This is the best post that I (via Ross) have seen on the strangeness of HFT: http://www.metafilter.com/94516/High-frequency-trading-crop-circles

[Setherick]

The shutting off of street lights to actively reshape a city; it feels like it could have occult significance in an urban fantasy game like Unkown Armies.

Link: http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/half-of-detroit-s-streetlights-may-go-out-as-city-shrinks.html

Detroit has become a case study for new urbanism and neofeudalism:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/06/detroit-the-shrinking-city-that-isnt-actually-shrinking/240193/

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20090402/METRO08/904020395/To+urban+hunter++next+meal+is+scampering+by

[Tadanori Oyama]

Check this out: http://news.yahoo.com/spy-camera-robot-penguins-infiltrate-bird-colonies-211005569.html

Science is sending robots dressed like penguins into their colonies, in addition to cameras hidden in ice and other objects. If we're doing this to penguins, imagine what more advanced species could to us.

The RockhopperCam is particularly impressive. The bipedal penguin-bot features 20 degrees of freedom of movement and gyro/accelerometer sensors. It can waddle over challenging terrain and pick itself up if it falls over. The producers say it was so realistic, some of the penguins accepted it as part of their colony.

A fluffy ChickCam did double-duty as a camera disguise and as a way to keep the camera from freezing. The production team even used a remote-controlled underwater penguin camera capable of diving down to 300 feet.

My first thought was Call of Cthulhu but this could be a really cool one for kids, like Monsters and Other Childish Things. I'm going to work it into my Wild Talents game.

[Setherick]

TNR officially announces the start of neofeudalism: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112395/wall-street-hedge-funds-buy-rental-properties

[Atlas]

TNR officially announces the start of neofeudalism: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112395/wall-street-hedge-funds-buy-rental-properties

Is it sad that I get most of my news from this thread?

[Setherick]

TNR officially announces the start of neofeudalism: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112395/wall-street-hedge-funds-buy-rental-properties

Is it sad that I get most of my news from this thread?

Yes, build yourself a Google Reader subscription list.

I recommend: The Browser, Archaeology Magazine, Slate, Salon, Wired, Ars Technica as a start.

[Atlas]

Done. Time to get myself informed about the world and stuff!

Thank you, good sir.

[Setherick]

Done. Time to get myself informed about the world and stuff!

Thank you, good sir.

To be honest, Ross and I started this thread because we exchange articles and other internet things all the time to use as fodder. Also, I read an insane amount of news items everyday, and since I don't have time to game anymore, I just dump 1/1,000th of the stuff I find interesting.