The Amazing Lynda
People are asking, what is The Amazing Lynda up to now that she isn't being chopped into pieces, floated in the air etc?.. ... together and runs the technical side on the night. She also helps out in the Team Building events.and ... Puzzles etc. and our newest The Secret Notebook of Mr. Hyde, which is written for Magicians [more...]
Date: 2009-02-18 23:44:00
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Virtual Rituals-II
I said it before about my love for simulation games. This time I managed to get Virtual Villagers 3- The Secret City for PC ... . It is like seeing your team grow; building team from scratch and managing them. Ahem!! My once-upon ... and utilize them for betterment of your villagers. And I am happy to say I have cracked all the puzzles [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 11:34:34
NHL Trade Deadline Winners & Losers
In one of the busier trade deadlines in all of major sports, the NHL saw 22 deals take place involving teams either dumping salary, building for the future, or adding that ever-important last piece of the Stanley Cup puzzle ... , which is exactly what this team needed. By keeping star defenseman Jay Bouwmeester, the Florida [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 19:15:15
RSL wins opening match of the Carolina Challenge Cup beating DC United 3-0
Real Salt Lake started the pre-season Carolina Challenge Cup strong, with a 3-0 win over DC United ... Kreis is making the most out of getting looks at new players and strategies on the field. Every season, building an effective team is like fitting the pieces of a puzzle together - a hard puzzle with lots [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 04:19:51
Ravenchase Adventure
Raise your hand if you are one of those who remember going on crazy scavenger/treasure hunts as a kid--being sent on a wild goose chase throughout ... together at family reunions or team building functions for corporations and you will find Ravenchase ... and use of riddles, puzzles and maps, you will be taken through tiny back alleys, medieval [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 13:00:00
Notre Dame Weekly: Good Times!!
It was an awesome four day weekend plus for the Fighting Irish men's hockey team! ... is expected to start early next year. Simply to quote Jeff Jackson (Irish Coach): "This is the most important and missing piece of the puzzle to this hockey program. The new building will create [more...]
Date: 2009-02-17 22:11:00
Playing Tetris can help reduce trauma
Playing the computer puzzle game “Tetris” can help reduce the symptoms of traumatic stress, claim scientists.[ ... . The Oxford team chose “Tetris” because it involves moving coloured building blocks around and uses ... Holmes said: “Tetris may work by competing for the brain’’s resources for sensory information [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 07:19:52
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/20/2009
We don’t have a TV, so I was spared the inauguration. This morning, during a skype conversation, someone started telling me about the events as they were then unfolding in Washington.My response: “LALALALALALALA! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”I’ve got four (or more likely eight or more) years to get used to Obama. So I’m going to take my time.Thanks to C [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 03:50:00
Muslim denial or be a complete moron. I am not even sure it is possible to disabuse these imbeciles of their contradictory notions but let me try by considering each of the falsehoods numbered above: Israel left Gaza more than 3 years ago. There is no occupation, brutal or otherwise [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 01:09:15
Scooby Doo vs. The Bratz
Well, Momma stayed home sick from work today... although she still participated in about four hours worth of conference calls while lying on the floor in her robe with one hand continuously massaging her forehead and temples. So since Claire was in good hands, Stew and I decided to run over to the local Denny's and grab some breakfast [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 20:38:00
Silbury Hill mystery soon to be resolved
It is said that there is a greater concentration of ancient monuments in the Wiltshire countryside between Marlborough and Avebury than anywhere ... they came to be, but Silbury Hill out-puzzles them all. There it sits by the A4, an outlandish sight ... . Contracting a team of engineers to stabilise the internal structure also provided a chance [more...]
Date: 2009-01-31 02:48:47
Why, on second thought, I dislike the Jacobs Deal
Daylight Savings Time fascinates me. It utterly fascinates me that everyone in the entire country — or at least all the affected areas of our great nation — will agree twice a year to change time. Here we all are, every last one of us, saying: “OK, yeah, you know what? It’s not 10 o’clock anymore. Nope. From now on, it’s 9 o’clock [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 14:44:53
The Virgin Read: Thankfully, Smart People Are Handling Her 2008 Round-Up Questions
Nina Stone started off this year with a different last name, a cursory understanding of comics and a non-existent history with blogs, and now that the year is days from ending, The Factual Opinion is proud to present her thoughts on a year in trying to get a better sense of a hobby only slightly less popular than model train sets [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 22:11:54
Encouraging the Budding Engineer
Christine had great questions about a middle schooler who is interested in pursuing engineering as a profession ... of robotics work. I lead the specification writing and purchase team for a number of new robotic ... . I really enjoyed solving all kinds of logic puzzles when I was a kid. Some of the Critical Thinking [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 07:00:00
Heroes Season 3 Episode 17
Claire tried to be normal for about five minutes but ultimately joined the rebel cause in Heroes Season 3 Episode 16 ... will understand. Noah’s tired of doing crossword puzzles anyway, so he’s game. With that last memory, they got ... . The team arrives with their weapons on stun, but then Peter just flies out. HRG warns that Peter’ [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 02:45:49
How to train your boomer brain in just minutes a day
A couple of days before Christmas, my 89-year-old mother-in-law fell and broke her wrist and hip. She just returned home this week ( ... , I decided to put my own brain skills to the test. Oh my! I've never had so much fun being so humiliated. I'm ... an online coach that suggests exercises you should try [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 22:27:41
Tuesday, 1/6
Onion 5:47Sun 4:58Tausig 4:43CS 3:32LAT 3:30NYT 3:03(updated at 12:30 Tuesday afternoon)I got distracted after doing John Greenman's New York Times crossword, digging around Google's world trying to find a picture of somebody tall, dark, and handsome. These days, nobody seems to fit the MATINEE IDOL tag while simultaneously being tall, dark, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 04:28:00
My Favorite Things - Top 5 Games of 2008
A few days back, I gave you my list of all the movies I saw in 2008 (that had been released between October 2007 and December 2008) and ended with My Top 5 Favorite Movies. That post has become an annual tradition round these parts. I know, real original, right?!?!?!?Well, I’m just stealing a page from everyone’s playbook [more...]
Date: 2009-01-30 12:31:52
Silent Hill Homecoming review
Silent Hill Homecoming review January 15th, 2009 YouTube Silent Hill Homecoming review Get the Gamesweasel video show now for free! ... by an American team called Double Helix, it’s also the first next-gen version and with that comes some lovely ... for its puzzles and they’re not very well spread out in this game. There are plenty near the end [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 17:15:20
Hands-On Previews From PAX 08
PAX is all about games, and the massive show floor had plenty of them on display. Here are the impressions from the show floor demos ... , and cooperation is imperative, as any member of the four-person team who wanders off will die a swift death, and players can revive fallen teammates. At one point, our team set off a car alarm, and “ [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 08:12:31
ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA
ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA It is not enough to be a destination site anymore. Everyone now wants to become an ad network. MTV Networks today announced that it has expanded its vertical ad network strategy by building ad ... for $121 million in cash. The company said that it will keep Napster’s executive team and will leave [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 00:42:11
A Wrinkle in London Time
Posted by randfish WARNING: The following post is long, personal and rambles quite a bit. It contains very little SEO advice, so if this isn’t your kind of thing, you might want to skip it. It was written over the course of 20ish hours and hops back and forth between days and times during my recent trip to London [more...]
Date: 2009-02-21 10:41:40
A Wrinkle in London Time
Posted by randfish WARNING: The following post is long, personal and rambles quite a bit. It contains very little SEO advice, so if this isn't your kind of thing, you might want to skip it. It was written over the course of 20ish hours and hops back and forth between days and times during my recent trip to London [more...]
Date: 2009-02-21 10:41:40
The Ubuntu Ethos
I love working with the Ubuntu community. I love the opportunities, challenges and people that occupy it ... from around the world. No day is ever the same. Something has been bothering me though recently. On my team ... to identify areas of focus and scale, and we indulge in a raft of technical and social puzzles. Despite [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 08:49:50
A Wrinkle in London Time
Posted by randfish WARNING: The following post is long, personal and rambles quite a bit. It contains very little SEO advice, so if this isn’t your kind of thing, you might want to skip it. It was written over the course of 20ish hours and hops back and forth between days and times during my recent trip to London [more...]
Date: 2009-02-21 10:41:40
Reader Mail #79
I liked this post on Azrael's Free Thoughts , linking to this article on how Al Gore and "global warming" are one big evil fnord. I'm been planning to do a post on how global warming is one big scam. This article , via Hacker News, about the threat to network neutrality was interesting, but it sort of missed the point [more...]
Date: 2009-02-17 17:00:00
Life's Building Blocks (Plus a BIG giveaway)
Building character in our children is so important! Kids need to have good guidance and knowledge to learn the importance of kindness, perseverance, ... Building Blocks, Inc., he has assembled an impressive team of experts in the fields of moral ... character values in a fun way~ Life's Building Blocks."Life's Building Blocks, Inc., is a privately held [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 19:53:00
Left 4 Dead
As you move down a shadowy road riddled with dark, menacing trees, abandoned buildings, and wreckage, your heart begins to pound. You point your flashlight toward an abandoned building as a brief shuffilng sound enters your ears. Nothing there. Turning back toward the road, you are met face-to-face with hundreds of snarling [more...]
Date: 2009-02-05 11:44:27
Mini Gamez Collection 13
Rollcage Stage II Rollcage Stage II is the sequel to Rollcage and as in the original it features cool, drive anywhere, ... your customers happy. Earn enough money, and you can turn your run-down old building into a sparkling ... film noir style. Solve a variety of puzzles and find the hidden clues. 37 beautifully hand drawn [more...]
Date: 2009-01-31 21:39:11
Was America Attacked by Muslims on 9/11? Part II By David Ray Griffin
Dandelion Salad By David Ray Griffin 09/09/08 “ICH” Continued from: Was America Attacked by Muslims on 9/11? Part I By David Ray Griffin However, as Rowland Morgan and Ian Henshall have pointed out, a normal security video has time and date burned into the integral video image by proprietary equipment according to an authenticated pattern, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 02:56:30
It’s probably because we miss hunting and gathering.
by Flickr user miguelb Yesterday, Julia and I attended a scavenger hunt organized by a local nonprofit, ... scavenger hunts because I love puzzles and games, but also because the act of searching stays ... . For a short hunt (1-3 hours), a single building, such as a museum, or a defined neighborhood [more...]
Date: 2009-02-02 03:20:56
A Wrinkle in London Time Filed Under (Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Web Analytics) by SEOmoz on 23-02-2009
Posted by randfishWARNING: The following post is long, personal and rambles quite a bit. It contains very little SEO advice, so if this isn’t your kind of thing, you might want to skip it. It was written over the course of 20ish hours and hops back and forth between days and times during my recent trip to London [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 07:00:07
"How do you sleep at night?" "On a bed made of Magic Snakes.”
Rule Number One of Madison Avenue: never give the client their money back ... sea monkeys and body-building kits, if you need to advertise Daisy Air Rifles and crappy Atari 5200 ... and Iron Fist or Batman and the Outsiders. And for maximum effect, why not have your crack team of ad [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:20:00
Team Building And Free Team Building Activities
by Ferdinand Mekinsy Free team building activities can be used to aid form a rudimentary foundation for cooperation in a newly constituted team, ... that you should recall when selecting which team building challenges you use for your teams. Free team building activities are varied, ranging from basic exercises targeted at youth to advanced programs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 17:45:09
Team Building Activities - Learn Your Free Tips
by Ferdinand Mekinsy Free team building activities can be used to help form a rudimentary foundation for cooperation in a newly formed team, ... that you should remember when choosing which team building challenges you use for your teams. Free team building activities are varied, ranging from basic exercises targeted at youth to advanced programs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 11:37:20
I Rant About the April 2009 Marvel and DC solicitations.
This month brings long awaited miniseries starring Spider Woman and Flash. And Marvel crams Wolverine down our throats in time for his movie (which may or may not be any good). I’m starting with Marvel first because they are more readily available: THE STAND: AMERICAN NIGHTMARE #2 (of 5) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 08:36:16
Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch
Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch Binding : CD-ROMProductGroup : Video GamesManufacturer : Her InteractiveBrand : Her InteractiveLabel : ... of thrilling game play; interview suspectsNew puzzles tie directly to the storyline and give important cluesSolve the mystery on your own or team up with family and friends2 difficulty settings for both [more...]
Date: 2009-02-07 12:25:47
Oceans 11: A Team Building Activity That Equals A Barrel Of Fun
Normal 0 false false false FIL-PH X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... :minor-bidi;} -- There’s a constant clamor for amusing games during team building activities ... tired of. You should know that it is important to find and plan for team building activities [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 11:25:04
WEDNESDAY, Dec.24, 2008 - Warren Biro (Copenhagen wad / Mariner's datum / Images representing Internet users / 1956-57 crisis site)
Relative difficulty: Easy-MediumTHEME: PLUGS (40A: Power connectors, or a way to describe 17-, 22-, 55- and 61-Across) ... for fans of either team, or baseball fans in general, or crossword fans in general, frankly ... a subscription to the Sun puzzle, ed. Peter Gordon. The best puzzles around that aren't in the NYT [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 12:29:00
Life as a Consultant: An interview with a consultant from Booz Allen
This post kicks off my “Life as a Consultant” series - where through interviews, ... Consultant for Booz Allen’s Organization & Strategy team. 2. Booz Allen is one of the industry’s most ... I would be a good fit, with several cases and logic puzzles mixed in. My suggestion for navigating [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 02:36:39
Life as a Consultant: An interview with a consultant from Booz Allen
This post kicks off my “Life as a Consultant” series - where through interviews, ... Consultant for Booz Allen’s Organization & Strategy team. 2. Booz Allen is one of the industry’s most ... I would be a good fit, with several cases and logic puzzles mixed in. My suggestion for navigating [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:12:15
Team Building - Your Free Team Building Activities
By Ferdinand MekinsyFree team building activities can be used to aid form a rudimentary foundation for cooperation in a newly constituted team, ... team building activities are varied, ranging from basic exercises targeted at youth to advanced ... games, challenges and puzzles for your group. You want to select free team building activities [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 11:41:00
Hello Kitty’s birthday to be held in MMORPG
Hong Kong – October 31, 2008: Hello Kitty turns 34 on November 1, 2008. To celebrate the occasion, Sanrio Digital (www.sanriodigital.com) ... utilizes blogs, email, video sharing, games and more to create a digital and social experience ... of Hello Kitty Online will shut down on November 8, 2008, to allow the development team to continue work [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 16:00:56
An Open Letter to Penguins Fans
We’ll get to yesterday’s game later. But first… An Open Letter to Penguins Fans , ... with that, and the Penguins and every other team that has been successful in recent years has them, too ... of us who have followed, cried with and loved this team for many years. For every person to whom you need [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 14:48:18
Baltimore & Broomball
Baltimore & Broomball The day before the inauguration, I was in Baltimore after a pleasant drive, ... of the game, and all of the post-ice sports stink. E’s friend and her team instructed us to meet them ... from atop a building in the distance. When we reached the bar and beers were distributed, I found [more...]
Date: 2009-01-30 05:22:12
Team Building - Your Free Team Building Activities
by Ferdinand Mekinsy Free team building activities can be used to help form a rudimentary foundation for cooperation in a newly constituted team, ... that you should not forget when selecting which team building challenges you use for your teams. Free team building activities are varied, ranging from basic exercises targeted at youth to advanced [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 19:28:06
Spore Galactic Adventures: Ability to walk into buildings
MaxisCactus has confirmed one of the most asked questions, is it possible to walk into buildings, this does not mean you will be transported into buildings, but you can make a building have a inside from the building editor by creating a shell which has a hole in it for your creature to walk [more...]
Date: 2009-02-14 07:54:56
Filming the Unfilmable: Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen Movie
Some of the most important scenes in the seminal comic book Watchmen take place in the secret basement headquarters of a washed-up ex-superhero called Nite Owl. It's a damp, vaulted space packed with avian-themed costumes and machine tools, a boys'-own-adventure clubhouse [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 00:00:05
Heather: The Beehive Rewind: Favorite Fresno Event of 2008
What would the end of the year be without a look back? ... for the Fresno State baseball team at Beiden Field on June 26. The day the team won the World Series was kind ... had fun and it made me wish I had jumped in and tried to solve the puzzles. Maybe next year. Mike Oz [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 20:36:36
Team Building - Your Free Team Building Activities
by Ferdinand Mekinsy Free team building activities can be used to aid form a primary foundation for cooperation in a newly formed team, ... that you should recollect when selecting which team building challenges you use for your teams. Free team building activities are varied, ranging from basic exercises targeted at youth to advanced programs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 19:26:02
