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Frustromantic Box, a reverse Geocache
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
This Too Shall Pass by OK Go
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Conan and Leno Make Perfect Pairs Skating Partners [VIDEO]
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Julian Smith Turns A Car Into A Musical Instrument To Make The Music Video Techno Jeep
Thursday, December 17th, 2009This is particularly apt for those of you who know of the Disco Jeep.
Scientists give grubby children a clean bill of health | Life and style | The Guardian
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
It takes a city to save a farm: How the Bay Area food and farming community helped Soul Food Farm recover from a devastating fire
Monday, November 9th, 2009
via ethicurean.com
Devastating fire at a small sustainable farm in Vacaville, CA and the ensuing recovery effort.
Now You Can Dislike Stuff on Facebook (With a Firefox Plugin)
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
via mashable.com
Small-town grocery stores feed a need bigger than stomachs
Sunday, November 1st, 2009October 31, 2009 13:56
by Steph L.
Small-town grocery stores feed a need bigger than stomachs
In the small Nebraska town I now call home, a small grocery store anchors one end of Main Street. Once a farm-implement dealership, it has nine aisles, a dairy cooler, and a fresh meat counter. It employs nine full-time workers plus various high school students, and its limited hours frequently cause this workaholic to actually leave my office at a reasonable hour. (It closes on weekdays at 6 pm, 7 pm on Saturdays, and 2 pm on Sundays.) Although I grow a lot of my own produce — and I still have an “out-of-town” list for things like wasabi, coconut milk, and other exotic items I can’t live without — I do the majority of my shopping at my town’s grocery store.
Read more over at The Ethicurean.
Official Settlers of Catan out now on App Store
Friday, October 30th, 2009Filed under: Gaming, Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Official Settlers of Catan out now on App Store
by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Oct 30th 2009 at 10:00AM
Just in case you missed it, I got my wish from a while back: there is an official version of the classic board game Settlers of Catan, called just Catan, on the App Store right now. I’m still playing Kolonists, the unofficial knockoff that got kicked off of the store for infringement, but if you’ve got wood for sheep, this official version should get you your portable fix. If you’re unfamiliar with the Catan juggernaut, check out this thorough piece from Wired.com.
There’s hot seat multiplayer gameplay (I assume you just can’t cheat by looking at what resources other people have), or a few AIs to tangle with if you don’t have friends at hand, and the game includes a scrollable board to play on, game stats to track, and a tutorial for those of you who haven’t rolled the dice and tried to build the Longest Road yet.
The game is created by United Soft Media, a German company that’s also ported the game to the DS, and while it’s not quite as shiny as the Xbox Live port (my personal favorite version of the game, outside of the real thing, of course), the reviews on iTunes say it gets the job done, at least while you’re waiting for the next board game night (and while we’re talking about board games, can I recommend Dominion? Best table game I’ve played in years). The game is $4.99 and available right now. Anyone have any ore?
via feeds.tuaw.com
