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GDC 2010's Experimental Gameplay Workshop Calls For Submissions

GameSetWatch (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

[Just wanted to point this one out to all, since Jon Blow, Chris Hecker and the other EGP organizers will again be putting together an awesome Workshop for GDC 2010, so hopefully some readers might have good things to contribute.] The organizers of the Experimental Gameplay Workshop, a staple of the Game Developers Conference since 2002, have issued a call for submissions to the event's 2010 incarnation,...

Castillo still a hard move...

Mets Fever (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

The Mets entered last off-season with the goal of trading Luis Castillo and when their efforts failed to move him, they entered the season with him as their starting 2B. But a year later in which Castillo put up stellar table setter numbers, played the entire season healthy and is only owed 12MM over two more years the team seemed optimistic about their chances of moving him. Clearly the Mets are trying...

Religious Identity and Economic Behavior

Free Market Mojo (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

We identify the marginal effect of religious identity on economic choices by measuring how laboratory subjects’ choices change when their religious identity is made salient to them. We find that Protestantism increases contributions to public goods, and there is suggestive evidence that it increases reciprocity in a labor market gift-exchange game. Catholicism decreases contributions to public...

Sampdoria - Chievo

FreeBetting (Free subscription) | 56 minutes ago

After a fine start to the season, Samp are falling down, it was long time since they last scored, defeat, or better shipwreck against Juventus killed their confidence. You would remember we spoke about Del Neri’s greatest risk and his team’s greatest weakness. Simply, they rely too much on Cassano. He can’t keep his form on the same level whole season, if he could, he would be the...

The Beautiful Scam

homegame (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Here's a stumper. How the hell do you do fix a soccer game, anyway? Try not to score? The front page of today's "New York Times" tells me that 15 people have been arrested in Germany for fixing a whole bunch of soccer matches, including a few Champions League fixtures (if you're not familiar with the sport, that's fixing the highest level of European competition, roughly akin to a bag job...

Reggie Bush questionable for Sunday

Fantasy Football Toolbox Updates (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush missed practice for the third consecutive day Friday and is listed as questionable for Sunday's game at Tampa Bay. Head coach Sean Payton said Bush knows the offense well enough that he could step in without the practice reps. But at the same time, he doesn't want to risk a setback with Bush, whose injury has been labeled a knee bruise. Although the knee...

Inevitability of e-book success?

Open IT Strategies (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Bloomberg ran a story Friday focusing on the adoption of e-books in college classrooms: As Sony Corp.’s e-book devices vie with the Kindle to win over readers, the real showdown may come later: when a shift to electronic textbooks at schools threatens to eclipse the current market for the products. … Within five years, textbooks will be the biggest market for e-book devices, dwarfing sales...

Chapman says amateurs shouldn't cook on Thanksgiving

BarfBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday

The idea of Chapman calling others amateurs is amusing. P.J. O’Rourke wrote a National Lampoon column about how amateur drunks throw up on other people’s shoes. In Champan’s case, it would be other people’s rose bushes. That’s us, in 2000, at my house in Guelph. He barfed in the bushes. But Chapman, food safety specialist and assistant professor of food science at North...

Bush a question mark for Week 11

CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Saints running back Reggie Bush has been held out of practice for the third straight day, and is listed as questionable for Sunday's game in Tampa Bay. Bush came out of the St. Louis game with swelling and soreness in his left knee, which was surgically repaired twice in a three-month span a year ago. Saints coach Sean Payton says Bush's knee is bruised and swollen. He says that happens with a knee...

Tales from the Larder: Olive, the Empress of Oil (part 1)

La Vida Locavore - Front Page (Free subscription) | yesterday

Homer called it "liquid gold." Olive oil has been more than mere food to us Mediterraneans: it's our way of life. The olive tree, symbol of abundance, glory and peace, gave its leafy branches to crown the victorious in both friendly games and bloody war. Olive crowns and olive branches, ancient emblems of benediction and purifiation, were ritually offered to deities and powerful figures but...

A Random Q&A About Kansas State Determines I Don't Miss The Hate THAT Much!

Corn Nation (Free subscription) | yesterday

More photos » by Charlie Riedel - AP And you may ask yourself How do I work this? And you may ask yourself Where is that large automobile? And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful house! And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful wife! And then you may say to yourself My God! What have I done? Browse more photos » If you're looking for information on the Kansas State Wildcats,...

The 40/30/30 Rule Preps You for The Game of Life [Motivation]

Lifehacker (Free subscription) | yesterday

When you've placed yourself where you need to be, kept at something past your initial doubts, and taken a risk at failing, you're running at 100 percent. Weblog The Simple Dollar suggests thinking of challenges that way—40/30/30—to stay motivated. Photo by martinhoward . Financial blogger Trent Hamm at The Simple Dollar breaks it down: What is the 40-30-30 rule? Simply put, it's an argument...

When Robots ruled the app stores

All About Symbian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Remember all the fun developers had (still have) with certification and Symbian Signed to get an application through testing? Lots of automatic tests as well as a human eye checking for compatibility and compliance in the name creating dependable applications? It's going to be interesting comparing the reaction of Symbian developers to Apple devlopers now it appears the same system is in place for...

Juggernaut

"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | yesterday

" Juggernaut " ( Richard Lester , 1974) With the letting loose of the whirlwind that is " 2012 " this week, I thought I'd pay homage to a neglected, but sterling example of the "Disaster Movie"—the modestly budgeted, very smart " Juggernaut ." Made in the shock-wave of such star-culling epics as " Airport ," " The Poseidon Adventure ,"...

[Match preview] Liverpool vs Manchester City

foxlivestreaming (Free subscription) | yesterday

Liverpool have scored 17 goals at Anfield; only Arsenal (20) have more goals at home in the Premier League. City drew 1-1 at Anfield last season, ending a sequence of five straight losses there. And in a total of 12 Premier League clashes between these teams there, Liverpool have won nine and drawn two. Sixth-placed City are one point and one place better off than Liverpool and they have conceded only...

• Liverpool v Manchester City: match preview - The Telegraph