lost in games

It’s the take it easy working day of the week. Weekend is just one coffee and one web browsing away. You can make your own coffee but i have some suggestions regarding your web browsing and reading.

Enjoy!

1. A video of the world’s largest model located in Hamburg, Germany. The Miniatur Wunderland. Link

2. Hilarious video. How Japanese children react to Zombie attacks. Link

3. The effects of watching Planet Earth are starting to show… Photographs of hyenas on a leash in Nigeria. Link

4. Facebook’s phenomenal growth continues. On 8 April 2009 it registered it’s 200millionth active user. This compares to 150m the site claimed in January of this year. Link

5. This is an extremely interesting article in the ongoing fight against piracy. Here’s an excerpt of the article.

“French lawmakers are poised to approve a law to create the world’s first surveillance system for Internet piracy, one that would force Internet service providers in some cases to disconnect customers accused of making illegal downloads…………The law empowers music and film industry associations to hire companies to analyze the downloads of individual users to detect piracy, and to report violations to a new agency overseeing copyright protection. The agency would be authorized to trace the illegal downloads back to individuals using the downloading computer’s unique identification number, known as its Internet Protocol, or IP, address, which the Internet service providers have on record.”  Link

The bill was defeated yesterday in French National Assembly. Link

6. How the Soviet Union built big. A list and description of 7 examples of the Soviets’ grand projects. Link

7. Four links for how Time Warner plans to charge broadband services according to how much data each user downloads. The first one is from GamersWithJobs (LINK ) and two from Dubious Quality (Link 1  and Link 2 ).  The final and fourth link is how Time Warner has made revisions to it’s original plans to accommodate lighter users of the service. (Link )

8. This is a game related link. Simon Parkin blogs about how positive aspects of a game can easily be seen as negative.

“In time it becomes possible to take a game product and write a damning review alongside a stirringly favourable one without threatening one’s integrity.” Link

9. Black and white wallpapers of retro mac games. Link

If you have any cool and interesting links email me and i will try and post them in future Click the Links.

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