Links for 2008-11-20
November 20th, 2008 | brainjuice
- He has no words and must design
"(Peter Molyneux)… didn?t have the critical language to describe what he (or more correctly, his teams) had created. He isn?t nearly as literate in why his own games work as the current generation playing his games."
(tags:games media culture ) - Why the universe may be teeming with aliens – space – 19 November 2008 – New Scientist
"As astronomers explore newly discovered planets and create computer simulations of virtual worlds, they are discovering that water, and life, might exist on all manner of weird worlds where conditions are very different from those on Earth. And that means there could be vastly more habitable planets out there than we thought possible."
(tags:space ) - Safer sex in a pill – health – 19 November 2008 – New Scientist
"People who have unprotected sex could slash their odds of getting AIDS just by taking a daily pill"
(tags:med )
Okay, this is a little unrelated, but I have a link for you. A two-faced kitten was born in Perth, Australia – as soon as I saw it, I naturally thought of Spider’s cat…
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/twofaced-kitten-born-in-perth–a-hrefhttpwwwsmhcomauphotogallery200703071173166769017html-bphotosb/2008/11/20/1226770635862.html
(Sorry, I know the link is ridiculous.)