Jack the fugitive - Flash Game
Jack the fugitive - Flash Game
An adventure game. Follow the story of Jack, as he shoots his way to freedom. Makes for a good story.
Puzzle Cube - Flash Game
Puzzle Cube - Flash Game
I liked the first puzzle, but the second didn’t offer much challenge (would’ve been a bit more challenging if the pieces moved faster), and I didn’t find the third puzzle that challenging at all.
Scientists measure methane at the source
Scientists measure methane at the source
In a lush pasture near Buenos Aires, this cow and its compatriots are digesting important information: how much methane—a greenhouse gas 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide—is released by the country’s 55 million bovines. Researchers from Argentina’s National Institute of Agricultural Technology connected inflatable tanks to the cows’ first stomach, where methane is made, through a small hole between their ribs. By measuring methane production directly inside each cow, biologist Silvia Valtorta hopes to more accurately determine the country’s overall agricultural contribution to global warming. According to the data, an average cow releases more than 70 gallons of the stuff every day. But a change in diet could reduce that. Cows that eat mostly grain produce 20 to 25 percent less methane than grazing cows, and adding tannin—a bitter chemical found in wine—to the feed could lower it further.
Snot Put - Flash Game
Snot Put - Flash Game
A silly snot flinging mini-game. Fun and addicting like Kitten Cannon.
Strippers private dancing lands DeKalb lawyer in hot water
Stripper’s private dancing lands DeKalb lawyer in hot water
A DeKalb lawyer was suspended for 15 months Thursday for arranging to have a female client perform nude dances for him in exchange for credit on her legal fees, a state commission said.
Scott Robert Erwin, a lawyer since 1980, will begin his suspension Oct. 7, according to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, a branch of the state Supreme Court that conducts investigations into attorney misconduct.
Erwin, with offices at 211 N. 1st St., has not been charged criminally.
Particle Pong - Flash Game
Particle Pong - Flash Game
Its Pong, no new concepts there. Score points when you create particle explosions. The more particles onscreen the more points. The computer is pretty useless to start with, but gets better fast. The whole thing is slightly frustrating.
No, Really, How Much Is $700 Billion?
No, Really, How Much Is $700 Billion?
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged Congress Tuesday morning to authorize a $700 billion bailout of struggling financial institutions. Although the congressional leadership has indicated its willingness to get onboard with the plan, rank-and-file lawmakers from both parties are balking at what’s been called the largest bailout in U.S. history. Just how much is $700 billion?
A lot, or not that much. There are about 300 million men, women, and children currently living (legally) in the United States, so the bailout is equal to roughly $2,300 per person. That’s right around what we each paid, on average, for gas and oil in 2006 ($2,227) and a bit less than our average personal tax burden ($2,432).
Stepping away from average Joes, $700 billion is equal to about 12 Bill Gateses. The assembled net worth of the Forbes 400 is $1.57 trillion, or more than twice the cost of the bailout. Titanic, one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, raked in $1.8 billion from the worldwide box office, so James Cameron would have to make roughly 381 Titanic-sized blockbusters to settle Wall Street’s debts. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the single-year cost of obesity in the United States was $117 billion in 2000, or about one-seventh the bailout—although that number has been disputed.
SeaScape - Flash Game
SeaScape - Flash Game
Seascape is an underwater point and click adventure game, search for pearls, treasure and take photo’s of the marine life. Use the objects in your inventory to manipulate objects, pry things open, use the plasma cutter to cut through metal, etc…
Fish Truck - Flash Game
Fish Truck - Flash Game
Safely transport your fish while protecting them from the hungry birds. I would’ve liked to have seen more weapons and a greater variety of upgrades.
Is Stupid Making Us Google?
Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.” Sound familiar? Describing, in The Atlantic Monthly, his own struggles to keep his attention span from contracting like the wild ass’s skin in Balzac’s novel, Nicholas Carr cites a British study of research habits among visitors to two serious scholarly websites which suggests a more general problem: that “users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of ‘reading’ are emerging as users ‘power browse’ horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.”