From Wired:
Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre
http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/17-04/mf_settlers

Many of you should know this already -- Settlers of Catan! XD Woot ( Read more... )

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Some guy bought a MacBookAir off eBay for around $700, only to find out when he received it that it was a prototype, something quite popular with computer collectors ( Read more... )

When it comes to presidential elections I think it is important to get a more objective view of things by looking at opinions from foreign countries.

Here is a multi-sectioned article discussing how the US needs to change in order to improve our image and relations abroad: How Should US Foreign Policy Change?. There are sections written by ( Read more... )

"I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live ( Read more... )

Ever heard of the Creation Museum in Kentucky? It is based on "young earth creationism" and is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read about ( Read more... )

...OR *IS* IT?!?!?Invented in 1983 as a way for McDonald's to sell more food and for Tyson to sell more chicken (which it did - the nuggets being responsible for America's change in prefrence of meat to chicken) the McNugget is an amazing amalgum of molecules, the likes of which you may never want to know ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if all of you are aware of this but it greatly affects fandoms of all shapes and forms as well as survivors of rape, incest, molestation, and more.

In an attempt to crack down on paedophiles, our very own LiveJournal began indiscriminantly cracking down on profiles listing things such as the items above as 'interests' - nevermind if ( Read more... )

There's always people saying the only reason Mac OS X and Linux, etc. don't have all the viruses Windows does is because they're not as popular. Which is ridiculous: Article 1 | Article 2Anyway, on one such uninformed article on Macs and viruses, the author quoted some 'expert' as saying ( Read more... )

http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html

I love this article.

Do you know where brown recluse spiders live ( Read more... )