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Analysis: Soren Johnson On Playing The OddsTuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 7:55AM[Former lead designer on Firaxis' Civilization IV and current EA programmer Soren Johnson examines the role of luck in games, which he describes as "a social lubricant - the alcohol of gaming, so to speak." (Originally published in Gamasutra sibling Game Developer magazine.)] One of the most powerful tools a designer can use when developing games is probability, using random chance to determine ...

Aground in Bend, OR; This young couple has been working aboard a variety of ships for the past 8 years. Now they are ...Tuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 6:08AMSarah Kastenholz, 31, and Adam Stockland, 34, moved to Bend a year ago. You may not have seen them around, though. A lot of the time, they're on the road.More accurately, they're on the water, or up in the air — just like their future plans.For much of the past eight years, the couple has lived the kind of life that can make you feel as if your life is a billboard advertising boring.

Driven pursuitsMonday, March 15, 2010 @ 1:35PMCROSSING one of the longest suspension bridge in western Europe was part of the itinerary. The 25th of April Bridge makes a peculiar loud hum when cars passed through it as two of six lanes are metallic platforms instead of asphalt. Not San Francisco, folks, but Lisbon. Even after 44 years, the 2.3km bridge remains an amazing piece of human engineering, towering high and stretching as far as the ...

Burnley 1 Wolves 2 – analysisMonday, March 15, 2010 @ 6:22AMMonday 15th March 2010, 11:13AM GMT. Stick at it and the breaks will come. Through some long, tough hours of Premier League combat, manager Mick McCarthy has not been able to offer much beyond that mantra to his Wolves players.

@SXSWi Interview: Jim Coudal on What We Talk About When We Talk About Maintaining Dignity in Online AdvertisingMonday, March 15, 2010 @ 4:58AMHear more at Jim Coudal's SXSWi panel, Online Advertising: Losing the Race to the Bottom , Sunday, March 14 at 3:30 p.m. I was sitting here trying to put into words why an interview - or a panel - about dignity in online advertising is relevant to more people than those of us who are oh-so lucky to be involved in the industry. And as I was engaged in one of those all-too-frequent Google-powered ...

Big Ten ConferenceMonday, March 15, 2010 @ 2:30AMBig Ten Conference-Around the Big Ten

Royals on bring after drubbing from Eskis — PHOTO GALLERYMonday, March 15, 2010 @ 1:04AMTEMISCAMING — At the final buzzer, the players quickly skated off the ice and the fans filtered out toward the exit. No final salutation to commemorate what was likely the final junior hockey game of the season in Temiscaming, where 202 fans — the first plus-200 crowd since Feb.[...]

Turning Gas Flares into FuelSunday, March 14, 2010 @ 11:06PMMicroreactor developers race to turn troublesome gas into usable crude oil. Natural gas may be the cleanest fossil fuel, but it can be an unnecessary pest when it's produced as waste from remote offshore oil wells. Brazilian state oil company Petrobras is fueling a race between two developers of modular chemical reactors that could turn this "associated gas" into synthetic crude.

Demand without supply? Developers have been slow to build new housing options in downtown KalamazooSunday, March 14, 2010 @ 6:17AMIf you’re hearing that not as many people are moving to downtown Kalamazoo in recent years, you may be right. But it’s not because downtown’s rebirth has lost its momentum.