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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Man in Black has changed his plan and now intends to destroy the island using Desmond’s unique gift. Perhaps he succeeds and the result is the parallel timeline where the Island was on the ocean floor seemingly sunken.
The proverb “Be careful what you wish for, it might just come true” occurs to me and the Man in Black causes his own destruction when he destroys the Island because their natures are intertwined. He is part of the Island.
Everyone seems better off in the parallel universe. They might not be perfectly happy in their lives, but they are on the whole happier and not suffering as they have in the primary universe. The only exception I can think of is Bernard and Rose, perhaps Desmond and Penny too, but there seems to be some hope for happiness for them in the parallel universe.
