Year: 2010
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Monaco is mine
Monaco is the winner of the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the 2010 Independent Games Festival.
It looks and sounds like a cool and interesting game, unfortunately no word on when it will be available.
Description:
Steal from the rich, keep it for yourself! Monaco is a 4-player co-op crime caper inspired by classic French heist movies and set in modern day Monte Carlo.
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England v. Slovenia
The England squad made a visit to a South African orphanage this morning.
“It is so good to put a smile on the faces of people with no hope, constant struggling and facing the impossible” said Sipho Umboto, aged 6.
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Goal! Jermain Defoe! England 1-0 Slovenia
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HTTPS Everywhere
EFF and the Tor Project have launched a Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere. The extension forces the browser to connect using https with every website that offers the facility to do so. With the increasing occurence of sidejacking of web sessions where the site only uses SSL for authentication but not for the whole session this extension should be installed by everyone.
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Patrick Stewart knighted at Palace
The BBC reports on Patrick Stewart’s knighthood ceremony and how he paid tribute to the teacher that first encouraged him to perform.
The Yorkshire-born star said he would be celebrating his knighthood with Cecil Dormand, the teacher who first encouraged him to consider acting as a profession.
“He was the one that put a copy of Shakespeare in my hand [and] said, ‘Now get up on your feet and perform’.”
Although a republican I think that this is a very well deserved honour to bestowed upon him.
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LEGO Aircraft Factory
This is amazing, a machine that is completely constructed from LEGO that builds small LEGO aircraft.
Yet another brilliant television series has come to an end and I’m left without a single bit of must-see television now that Lost has gone the way of The Wire, The Shield and Six Feet Under.
However unlike those three series which had really satisfying finales I was left feeling slightly unsatisfied with how Lost ended. But then on reflection I’m not sure I could have ever been entirely satisfied however many loose ends the producers tied up and in fact if they explained every single thing I would be dissatisfied that they’d chosen to do that.
I was emotionally satisfied by the ending and there were some extremely moving moments in it, especially for me when Sawyer and Juliet were reunited. The bit with Hurley and Ben at the church was quite touching as well.
It seems to me that the idea of the flash-sideways as a way for the characters to learn to let go was brought to another level with the finale which became about us the viewers learning to let go and move on with our lives too.
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Outsourcing to an Indian Jail
Bruce Schneier thinks that Outsourcing data processing to an Indian Jail is a security risk.
I’m very much inclined to agree, especially given this.
The unit, which is expected to undertake back-office work for banks, will work round the clock with three shifts of 70 staff each.