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Where have all the student journalists gone? To HuffPo and HubSpot.
But our professor is in another castle: Universities don’t get MOOCs
You may notice the large gap in my posts. There is a reason. I had an interesting time during that break creating a universe. It was weird, because the opportunity came up outside of something other then I would expect. For my IT353 Class (Information Warfare) I was assigned to the PR team. This became […]
Check out this article on an event in NYC’s Union Square in which a Smart Mob met a rave.
Early last week, I decided to get back into Grim Fandango. It was one of the earliest 3D games I remember, and I had recently stumbled across mention after mention of the game in my readings. A long time ago, I had played the demo of this game, back when it first came out, off […]
So for my group project which was due this week, my group decided to put together an IF. I was assigned code duty, being the only one with programming experience. After some exploration of the options, I finally settled down on TADS3 to be nicely similar to the programming languages I (sorta) knew and it […]
I was being amused by Blizzard’s April Fool’s Day jokes when I saw a link to job openings over Irvine, California. To satisfy my curiosity, I figured I’d check it out… and lo and behold… there were the following openings: Writer and Assistant Historian It hurts my brain. No joke. I’d love either of those […]
| Pt. 1 | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 | Facilitator Wai Wazad Homeworld: Aman Dal Enes III (Lal Nemas)Affiliation: [2nd] Antarean Space Empire (ASE) – Ministry of Vox Dei; Facilitator, Equilibrium-ClassBorn: 948 A.E.Age: 41Sex: Male There are a small number of Facilitators within the ranks of the Ministry of Vox Dei known as Equilibrium-Class […]
The saga of Star Trek Online continues as it looks as if Cryptic Studios (of City of Heroes fame) is taking over. Hopefully this latest development will mean some serious progress on the game. See the full article here.
[note: if you have not yet played BioShock and plan to, you may want to wait on reading this, as it contains spoilers] As an Xbox achievements addict, I was recently attempting to replay BioShock, to scoop up all the points I had missed. Unfortunately, I was having trouble getting into it a second time. […]
| Pt. 1 | Pt. 2 | Welcome to the Bridge City of Distad. Located in the Zife system on the planet Alfasdan, here is the last hold of the United League of Planets behind Milatat Line and they have been fighting hard to keep it. The Antarean Empire’s forces have pushed them out of […]
| Pt. 1 | Facilitator Wai Wazad stood looking out over the long expanse of the only remaining bridge into the City of Distad. He was an unusual member of the MVD, in that he was an unclassified personage. His background could be found on any public access DAIS, his current assignment was posted up […]
