The previously revealed Commons Mall from the Dawn of the Dead inspired map will now be part of a four part campaign for Left 4 Dead. The campaign, entitled Dead Before Dawn, includes the Commons Mall as the second of

was in fact a combination of poorspelling and overreaction to the situation...

Yes, it is a potential gadget, but a gadget that might make a world of difference for millions of deaf people. A researcher has found that the neurons at the base of inner ear auditory hairs react to infra red

Part 1 was the $600 checks mailed to everyone earlier this year. Part 2 was the $700 billion TARP. Part 3, priced between $500 and $700 billion will be on the desk of President Obama when he takes office on

Recently, Charlie Rose interviewed Lawrence Lessig. You can see the interview on Lessig's blog: Here. The interview is just short of 40 minutes and ostensibly is about Lessig's current book "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy"

A large vegetable farm in Colorado opened up it's fields for "gleaning", finding the food leftover after harvest. It was advertised and the day it opened for the gleaning 40,000 people showed up. They had to use 30 acres of

Apparently, the missteps of the Icelandic government and largest banks have riled the citizenry there to the point they had a mass protest in their capital city Reykjavik and demanded a new government and some serious banking reform.

gozunda writes "My company is an open source software vendor/developer. We maintain a popular open source project and keep ourselves afloat by producing commercial products derived from or extending the value of the core project. Over time we've seen our

Multi Theft Auto is a third-party modification for Rockstar's hit title Grand Theft Auto San Andreas - and it has become open-source after over four years of closed source development. As a (somewhat) regular player of MTA since the early

Google has announced that they were able to sort one petabyte of data in 6 hours and 2 minutes across 4,000 computers. According to the Google Blog, '... to put this amount in perspective, it is 12 times the amount

This article details the practical steps for game developers to add a video recording feature to a game , encode gameplay footage in the Theora video format, and share the recording on YouTube. Spore's Creature Creator, PixelJunk Eden, and Mainichi

Age: LVIIIHometown: NYCWhere do you now live?: Queens, NY Where would you most like to live?: Tough question. Definetely a tossup. Quebec, Canada, Lund, Sweden or Old San Juan, PR. Who was your first "hero" in life?: Sherlock HolmesWhat is

Is there ONE painting, sticker, stencil, sculpture, or piece of architecture that truly inspires you in your daily work?"Throughout the long nightmare of the Bush regime and its seemingly limitless ability to exploit fear to promote its evil agenda, there

SouthCentral: Part 4 (The Final Chapter!) from ABOVE on Vimeo.

When I turned to the readers of this site and asked for questions I could answer or topics I could address, I noted (without much surprise) that many people were interested in the subject of reading. One person sought a

A Hard ChoiceCarolyn McCulley points to a WaPo article "about a pro-choice medical student who pursued training to become an abortion doctor. It was a well-written piece, and surprisingly balanced and nuanced."DrinkAnother beautiful little snapshot from Ali's African Adventures.StalkedThousands of

Verizon has released the HTC Touch Pro without much fanfare. Verizon is the third US carrier to offer the HTC Touch Pro, as Sprint has released the Sprint HTC Touch Pro and ATT has released the HTC Fuze. Verizon ...

I'm glad to see that the original Mega Man is, for most people, the one true incarnation of the character. To be honest, I was surprised that the other options besides Mega Man X have their devoted fans. Well, almost....

With all the attention being lavished on the upcoming Ghostbusters video game for modern consoles there has been a little upswing in attention being paid to the original 1984 Ghostbusters game for the Commodore 64. Developer David Crane created the...

The results are in and we have a winner of a Mirror's Edge prize pack that includes a copy of the game for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and the game's soundtrack album courtesy of Press The Buttons and Filter. Congratulations...