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.
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.
This is amazing, a machine that is completely constructed from LEGO that builds small LEGO aircraft.
Today the 24th March is Ada Lovelace day whereby blogger around the world celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science by choosing one to profile and write about. This year I’m cheating a little and am linking to an excellent animation produced by Brainpop about the life of the lady herself who was called “The Enchantress of Numbers” by Charles Babbage.
In the US and the UK it is becoming the norm that children emerge from school ill taught and ill prepared for the world at large.
In the New York Times article Building a Better Teacher an argument is made that there needs to be a new understanding of teaching and be able to distinguish between techniques that really work and those that don’t.
But I think there also needs to be discussions about what we need as nations from our schools.
Seth Godin believes school is a scam it is about brainwashing.
It may be that it is not the quality of the teaching at all but the diet of the pupils. Jamie Oliver in his campaign to improve school dinners found that with a healthy nutritious meal at lunchtime that there were improvements in the children’s mood, behaviour, and even their ability to concentrate.
Genius is misunderstood as a bolt of lighting
Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before. It has nothing to do with winning a Nobel prize in physics or certain levels of schooling. It’s about using human insight and initiative to find original solutions that matter.
Genius is actually the eventual public recognition of dozens (or hundreds) of failed attempts at solving a problem. Sometimes we fail in public, often we fail in private, but people who are doing creative work are constantly failing.
When the lizard brain kicks in and the resistance slows you down, the only correct response is to push back again and again and again with one failure after another. Sooner or later, the lizard will get bored and give up.
Genius is the creation of 5126 prototypes before producing a viable bagless vacuum cleaner. Or to quote Thomas Edison “I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Henry Porter believes that 2009 was a bad year for civil liberties.
It was not all bad news though as there was an increase in the levels of awareness about the erosion of civil liberties as more and more people became affected by the encroachment.
One particular example is the large number of innocent people in the DNA database and the great difficulties and apparent postcode lottery in getting oneself expunged from the database. Damian Green writes that DNA retention hampers policing.
