I’ve gotta say this is one of the coolest things I’ve read about in a long time. A company in Boston has come up with a way to make diamonds from scratch, and I’m not talking about diamond dust. Real diamonds. Potentially big ones. This has some pretty incredible possibilities.
If you’ve ever heard of the game World of Warcraft, you know that it is an MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). It’s one of those games that can consume your life if you’re not careful, which is just one excellent reason I’ve avoided it (others would be the cost, and limited free time now that I work 40+ hours per week).
Recently something pretty cool happened in the world of the game. Blizzard, the game maker, introduced a new area with a new boss. When players got there, a spell called Corrupted Blood was cast upon them. Here’s where things get interesting: when players returned to towns in the game, they brought the disease back with them. The result was a virtual plague that quickly spread throughout the game. It was strong enough to kill low level characters and must have been a serious pain even to those at higher levels.
The fact that the whole thing was never supposed to happen doesn’t really matter. The plague spread in a very “natural” way, imitating a real life scenario. I’d say that’s both really cool and pretty scary at the same time.
This is pretty sweet.
But more interesting are some of the other comments:
They listen to feedback actively. Emailing Google isn’t emailing a blackhole.
Some other good stuff as well.
Google is joining the ranks of the Knights Templar, the Masons, the Illuminati, and Skull and Bones, effectively setting up secret invitation-only meetings with 400 elite attendees, including major media figures, who are all sworn to secrecy about next month’s Google Zeitgeist 05. Passwords will be used in lieu of secret handshakes.
Google, what are you up to?
I don’t know what to think about this proposal to switch to six 28 hour days per week. It sounds interesting, but I’m not sure about the whole offset wake/sleep and light/dark cycles.
Rumors have been swirling for months. I’ve been a Nintendo fan since the beginning so I’ve been wondering if Revolution could bring them back to the forefront of console gaming. The Revolution controller. I don’t even know where to start. Just click the link.
Edit: Where the hell did Dylan come from?
You’ve seen those stupid talking fish. The ones mounted on a plaque, generally with a motion sensitive trigger that sing songs like “Take Me to the River.” Well now you can create your own stupid message.
If you really wanna waste some time, this ball game is maddening. It seems so simple in theory, and yet it takes a level of coordination that I didn’t seem to possess when I was playing it this morning.
I always thought there was something funny about this guy.
I have just one question. Why?
Make that two questions. Why are they in space? There’s no reason for them to be in space.
Hopefully I won’t need to use any of these techniques to get people out of my office at Epic.
While I sit here and write pointless posts to waste time, some people do more creative things.
I’m only half awake. This probably seems a lot funnier than it really is, but here’s some discarded tide ad campaign slogans.
Currently Playing: Avril Lavigne – My Happy Ending
Last night at ARH I presented both a new pet policy proposal and some changes to our constitution. It marked the end of about a month’s worth of work for myself and a committee of around 10 others. To be honest, it’s been taking up a huge amount of time. The fact that I’ve finally presented it means I’m on my way to being done. Not just with these two issues, but with classes, organizations, and all of the activities I’ve gotten myself into throughout my time at K-State. Of course there’s still a full ARH meeting of debate coming in two weeks, but steps are being taken to make sure it goes smoothly. I was pretty surprised at how well things went last night.
I’m hoping from here I can start to “phase myself out” so to speak. After March 16, I will no longer be on ARH Exec Board and will be transitioning a new VP and Technology Coordinator (assuming constitution revisions pass). I’ll be hanging around at the request of the advisors to ensure that some things like scrapbooks and Hall of the Year are wrapped up nicely. Otherwise, things will start to slow down. We’ll have elections soon in NRHH and there will be a new OTM Committee Chair. I have a few things left for Ambassadors and then I’ll probably just stop signing up. I haven’t really been to MIS Club many times this semester, but now that I have a job, it doesn’t seem so important. Basically, I’m more ready than ever to graduate and get out of here.
On a totally unrelated note, I was browsing Lydick’s site last night and he’d linked to something called PostSecret. It’s a site run by a guy who encourages people to send him postcards with their secrets on them (anonymously of course). I think it says a lot about the human psyche, and there’s something strangely calming about reading other people’s secrets. Maybe I’ll send something in…
Currently Ignoring: Lecture on ASP .NET which has told me nothing new.