Imperial Ages is a free browser based strategy game, set in the Medieval Ages. You only need a browser and an Internet connection to play it, and you can train or fight against 120 types of military units, from 4 different civilizations. Build up your empire peacefully or through wars, it’s your choice.

Read the story, or Play the game.

The prize is a great looking WordPress theme, that you can see below. Since you’re there, also take a look at the free WordPress themes being offered. There is great quality there.

PayPerPost asks bloggers that do reviews to respect their blog ethics policy, to make sure that the readers aren’t mislead about the posts.

I found out about PPP some time ago, but only a few days ago I signed up with them, and just got approved a few hours ago. It’s a very easy process, but you do need an established blog to apply. Yes, don’t act so surprised, this blog can be considered established with the 4 months it has behind it.

What am I going to do with the money? Well, I’m not going to be rich because of it, but it can certainly help me advertise this blog on other sites and maybe pay for a custom WordPress theme to give a more unique feel to this blog. Other than that, I would love to be able to buy some books with the money I can make with PayPerPost.

What got me thinking about it again is this great post from Wrevenue.com called Living Well, Indefinitely. If you think the topic of preventing the body from growing old is interesting, then you should definitely read that article and the resource links that it has.

Stopping aging has its own set of problems, but I don’t see any that would be more important than the possibility of living longer and being able to enjoy the presence of your loved ones.

Here are just a few of the possible issues that might appear if we manage to do this:

• pension systems will kick the bucket. Either this, or the age to retire will be modified dramatically or it will be based more on someone’s ability to work rather than on his age.
• sports car sales will go down because the midlife crisis will be gone. Don’t laugh, people from the automotive industry could lose jobs because of this.
• women will have children later in life, if they don’t have just a 20 year window to have them. That, plus I see the growth rate of the population going up quite a bit if all women will be able to bear children in the future, and not just for a limited period of time.
• no more "Till death do us part". Yes, living 60 years with someone is one thing. Living 600 is another. I just don’t see it happening.
• women would lie about their age more and more. Would they admit they’re 200 years old if they looked like a 25 year old babe?

There is no possible argument that someone can bring me, that would make me think that stopping aging isn’t worth it. Every obstacle can be overcome and this end goal is so worth going after.

I would really enjoy being able to travel out of our solar system or having the time to visit every single country of this planet and all the great things they have to offer. All I need is time. Now, what company wants my money in the long run and wants to work on this cure? Get busy people, I only have a few decades left.

This great looking photo above is of the Earth and Moon, as seen from Mars. It was acquired on October 3, 2007, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

At the time the image was taken, Earth was 142 million kilometers (88 million miles) from Mars, giving the HiRISE image a scale of 142 kilometers (88 miles) per pixel, an Earth diameter of about 90 pixels and a moon diameter of 24 pixels. The phase angle is 98 degrees, which means that less than half of the disk of the Earth and the disk of the moon have direct illumination. We could image Earth and moon at full disk illumination only when they are on the opposite side of the sun from Mars, but then the range would be much greater and the image would show less detail.

DIGITAL CAMERAS have become so simple that many people end up taking more pictures than they have time to upload to their computers. Eye-Fi, a startup in Mountain View, CA, hopes to change that with its new two-gigabyte secure digital memory card, which turns any compatible camera into a wireless transmitter. When a camera containing the card comes within range of a preselected Wi-Fi network, the card automatically uploads its contents to a local PC or to a
designated photo-sharing site on the Internet.

Hands-Free iPod

DON’T LIKE what’s playing on the car stereo? Just tell your iPod to jump to another song. A new in-car system from Ford and Microsoft connects to music players through a dashboard USB port and to cell phones via Bluetooth, letting the driver control both devices with voice commands. The system knows where to look for song and address-book data in a wide range of devices and translates it into phonetic codes intelligible to voice recognition software.

Also …

In a lawsuit filed last month, former Prosper, Inc. salesman Chad Hudgens alleges his managers also allowed the supervisor to draw mustaches on employees’ faces, take away their chairs and beat on their desks with a wooden paddle "because it resulted in increased revenues for the company."

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