Monday, September 08, 2008

Wired Magazine's "Top 10 Amazing Physics Videos

What's better than a little Science (Physics) and Movies?

How about Wired magazines Top 10
Amazing Physics Videos, found Here:



These Videos are just under the Wire (Pun Intended) since CERN has some Happenings this week as well.

CERN's LHC 'First Beam' to be broadcast live on Wednesday
Link: http://www.engadget.com/

Set your alarms and kiss the kids goodbye, CERN will be providing a live webcast of the Large Hadron Collider's "First Beam" maiden voyage on Wednesday. Let us know how it goes, we'll be holed-up inside grandpa's bombshelter with our canned turnips and 10th anniversary Heaven's Gate Nikes -- remember, two-knocks if it's safe else we'll assume you're a robot.


Read -- Webcast starting Wed, Sep10 at 09:00 CEST (calculated globally)
Read -- Satellite broadcast

Which brings us to the subject of SPORES...
A pretty good review of the game appears in ArsTechnica (Link below)

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Note: A version of this game just came out for the iPhone.
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12 years later... we're playing Spore

With Spore, Will Wright intends to make you an Intergalactic Galactic ruler who begins life as a bottom-feeding primordial soup dweller. When I first saw the game back in early 2006 I wondered, would Wright and his team over at Maxis be able to pull this off? I didn't mean "pull it off" in the technical sense, but in the gaming sense of making it fun. I've waited a long time to see if Wright succeeded, and when my review copy arrived in the mail recently I found out the answer.


Wingman....you know.

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