With all the free stuff Valve has been giving out lately, it's a wonder they can still meet their bottom line. Now that Source SDK is free, you can make your very own games with the Source SDK -- without having to make a purchase first.
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Cows Genetically Engineered to Produce Human Breast Milk
Science has led to genetically engineered cows that can create human breast milk. I do not know what to make of this.
Read More »Samsung is Installing Keyloggers on Their PCs. Maybe.
Samsung stands accused of putting keylogging software on their retail laptops. Samsung, not surprisingly, denies this... eventually.
Read More »Motorola to Upgrade ALL Verizon-Branded Xoom Devices to LTE
Worried that rooting your Motorola Xoom tablet will void the LTE upgrade? Fear not! Motorola will let it slide.
Read More »Please Don’t Take My Beta Chrome Away (1)
Adam Rothstein is a blogger, tech thinker, unemployed philosopher�and now, a beta tester of one of the coveted Google Chrome notebook computers. In the first of four posts about the beta experience, Adam finds that the unnanounced arrival of the device makes him feel like a combination of The Matrix's Neo and a Milo from The Phantom Tollbooth.
Read More »The Peaceable Network
New understandings of ecosystems bring network administration to bear on the problems of natural resources management. Through networks we seek the domestication not only of ourselves, but of nature itself.
Read More »Unevenly Distributed: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The @
I start this column with only one aim. I would like to try to impart my love for one of the oldest, and most impenetrable, and aesthetically unattractive, and sociopathic and schizophrenic genres of computer game to a reader who will doubtlessly hate it for all of those exact reasons. I'm talking about rogue-likes, so called because of their ancestry in a progenitor called Rogue. Let's see how I do.
Read More »Gearfuse Almanac: January 13 in Science and Technology
Opera on the radio, Paul Feyerabend's scientific relativism, and Soviet mistrust of scientists and intellectuals: today's hits in the history of science and technology
Read More »Paleobibliophilic Bookservative Gutenbourgeois
Traditional media mavens don't like the messy, loosely-joined conversation that is the Web and the dynamics of the new public sphere. Trouble is, they're also the dynamics of the old public sphere.
Read More »Leviathan 2.0
The evolutionary ebb and flow of freedom, liberty, and the collective continues on the Web, as it has throughout the history of the public sphere.
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