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D&D

2010-10-21T16:23:00.000-07:00

Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D)^[1] is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997. It was derived from miniature wargames with a variation of the Chainmail game serving as the initial rule system.^[2] D&D's publication is widely regarded as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry.^[3]
D&D departs from traditional wargaming and assigns each player a specific character to play instead of a military formation. These characters embark upon imaginary adventures within a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Master serves as the game's referee and storyteller, while also maintaining the setting in which the adventures occur. The characters form a party that interacts with the setting's inhabitants (and each other). Together they solve dilemmas, engage in battles and gather treasure and knowledge.^[3] In the process the characters earn experience points to become increasingly powerful over a series of sessions.
The early success of Dungeons & Dragons led to a proliferation of similar game systems. Despite this competition, D&D enjoys a dominant market position in the role-playing game industry.^[4] In 1977, the game was split into two versions: the more loose, open framework game system of Dungeons & Dragons and the much tighter and more structured game system of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as AD&D or ADnD).^[1]^[5] AD&D 2nd Edition was published in 1989. In 2000, the original version of the game was discontinued and the AD&D version was renamed simply Dungeons & Dragons with the release of its 3rd edition.^[6] These rules formed the basis of the d20 System that is available under the Open Game License for use by other publishers. Dungeons & Dragons version 3.5 was released in June 2003, with a 4th edition in June 2008.^[7]
As of 2006, Dungeons & Dragons remains the best-known^[8] and best-selling^[9] role-playing game, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US$1 billion in book and equipment sales.^[10] The game has been supplemented by many pre-made adventures as well as commercial campaign settings suitable for use by regular gaming groups. Dungeons & Dragons is known beyond the game for other D&D-branded products, references in popular culture and some of the controversies that have surrounded it, particularly a moral panic in the 1980s falsely linking it to Satanism and suicide.^[11] The game has won multiple awards and has been translated into many languages beyond the original English.

Internet

2010-10-21T11:02:00.000-07:00

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.
Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are being reshaped or redefined by the Internet. Newspaper, book and other print publishing are having to adapt to Web sites and blogging. The Internet has enabled or accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking. Online shopping has boomed both for major retail outlets and small artisans and traders. Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries.
The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s with both private and United States military research into robust, fault-tolerant, and distributed computer networks. The funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. The commercialization of what was by then an international network in the mid 1990s resulted in its popularization and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2009, an estimated quarter of Earth's population used the services of the Internet.
The Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own standards. Only the overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System, are directed by a maintainer organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols (IPv4 and IPv6) is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise.

Technology

2010-10-19T16:12:00.001-07:00

Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization. The word technology comes from the Greek technología (τεχνολογία) — téchnē (τέχνη), an 'art', 'skill' or 'craft' and -logía (-λογία), the study of something, or the branch of knowledge of a discipline.^[1] The term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include construction technology, medical technology, or state-of-the-art technology or high technology. Technologies can also be exemplified in a material product, for example an object can be termed state of the art.
Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments. The human species' use of technology began with the conversion of natural resources into simple tools. The prehistorical discovery of the ability to control fire increased the available sources of food and the invention of the wheel helped humans in travelling in and controlling their environment. Recent technological developments, including the printing press, the telephone, and the Internet, have lessened physical barriers to communication and allowed humans to interact freely on a global scale. However, not all technology has been used for peaceful purposes; the development of weapons of ever-increasing destructive power has progressed throughout history, from clubs to nuclear weapons.
Technology has affected society and its surroundings in a number of ways. In many societies, technology has helped develop more advanced economies (including today's global economy) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many technological processes produce unwanted by-products, known as pollution, and deplete natural resources, to the detriment of the Earth and its environment. Various implementations of technology influence the values of a society and new technology often raises new ethical questions. Examples include the rise of the notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity, a term originally applied only to machines, and the challenge of traditional norms.
Philosophical debates have arisen over the present and future use of technology in society, with disagreements over whether technology improves the human condition or worsens it. Neo-Luddism, anarcho-primitivism, and similar movements criticise the pervasiveness of technology in the modern world, opining that it harms the environment and alienates people; proponents of ideologies such as transhumanism and techno-progressivism view continued technological progress as beneficial to society and the human condition. Indeed, until recently, it was believed that the development of technology was restricted only to human beings, but recent scientific studies indicate that other primates and certain dolphin communities have developed simple tools and learned to pass their knowledge to other generations.

GOD

2010-10-19T15:34:00.001-07:00

Does he exist? I don't think so.

2010-09-29T17:10:00.001-07:00

http://yfrog.com/bc1285726711378j

asdf movie 2

2010-09-27T10:40:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKB4h9gvmm0

ASDF movie

2010-09-27T10:39:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnsfV5N2n8

Variants for tafl

2010-09-27T10:37:00.003-07:00

worldMap[1] =   { 5,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,5 }
    worldMap[2] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[3] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[4] =   { 2,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,2 }
    worldMap[5] =   { 2,1,1,1,3,3,3,1,1,1,2 }
    worldMap[6] =   { 2,2,1,3,3,4,3,3,1,2,2 }
    worldMap[7] =   { 2,1,1,1,3,3,3,1,1,1,2 }
    worldMap[8] =   { 2,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,2 }
    worldMap[9] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[10] = { 1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[11] = { 5,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,5 }

worldMap[1] =           { 5,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,5 }
    worldMap[2] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[3] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[4] =   { 2,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,2 }
    worldMap[5] =   { 2,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,2 }
    worldMap[6] =   { 2,2,3,3,3,4,3,3,3,2,2 }
    worldMap[7] =   { 2,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,2 }
    worldMap[8] =   { 2,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,2 }
    worldMap[9] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[10] = { 1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[11] = { 5,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,5 }

worldMap[1] =           { 5,1,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,5 }
    worldMap[2] =   { 1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[3] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[4] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[5] =   { 2,2,1,1,3,3,3,1,1,2,2 }
    worldMap[6] =   { 2,1,2,3,3,4,3,3,2,1,2 }
    worldMap[7] =   { 2,2,1,1,3,3,3,1,1,2,2 }
    worldMap[8] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[9] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[10] = { 1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,1 }
    worldMap[11] = { 5,1,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,5 }

worldMap[1] =           { 5,1,1,2,1,1,5}
    worldMap[2] =   { 1,1,1,2,1,1,1}
    worldMap[3] =   { 1,1,1,3,1,1,1}
    worldMap[4] =   { 2,2,3,4,3,2,2}
    worldMap[5] =   { 1,1,1,3,1,1,1}
    worldMap[6] =   { 1,1,1,2,1,1,1}
    worldMap[7] =   { 5,1,1,2,1,1,5}

worldMap[1] =           { 5,1,2,1,2,1,5}
    worldMap[2] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,1,1}
    worldMap[3] =   { 2,1,1,3,1,1,2}
    worldMap[4] =   { 1,1,3,4,3,1,1}
    worldMap[5] =   { 2,1,1,3,1,1,2}
    worldMap[6] =   { 1,1,1,1,1,1,1}
    worldMap[7] =   { 5,1,2,1,2,1,5}

worldMap[1] =           { 5,1,1,2,1,1,5}
    worldMap[2] =   { 1,2,1,1,1,2,1}
    worldMap[3] =   { 1,1,1,3,1,1,1}
    worldMap[4] =   { 2,1,3,4,3,1,2}
    worldMap[5] =   { 1,1,1,3,1,1,1}
    worldMap[6] =   { 1,2,1,1,1,2,1}
    worldMap[7] =   { 5,1,1,2,1,1,5}

worldMap[1] =           { 5,1,2,2,1,1,5}
    worldMap[2] =   { 1,1,2,3,1,1,1}
    worldMap[3] =   { 1,1,1,3,1,2,2}
    worldMap[4] =   { 2,1,3,4,3,1,2}
    worldMap[5] =   { 2,2,1,3,1,1,1}
    worldMap[6] =   { 1,1,1,3,2,1,1}
    worldMap[7] =   { 5,1,1,2,2,1,5}

worldMap[1] =           { 5,1,2,2,2,1,5}
    worldMap[2] =   { 1,1,1,2,1,1,1}
    worldMap[3] =   { 2,1,3,3,3,1,2}
    worldMap[4] =   { 2,2,3,4,3,2,2}
    worldMap[5] =   { 2,1,3,3,3,1,2}
    worldMap[6] =   { 1,1,1,2,1,1,1}
    worldMap[7] =   { 5,1,2,2,2,1,5}

worldMap[1] =           { 5,2,2,1,2,2,5}
    worldMap[2] =   { 2,1,1,3,1,1,2}
    worldMap[3] =   { 2,1,1,3,1,1,2}
    worldMap[4] =   { 1,3,3,4,3,3,1}
    worldMap[5] =   { 2,1,1,3,1,1,2}
    worldMap[6] =   { 2,1,1,3,1,1,2}
    worldMap[7] =   { 5,2,2,1,2,2,5}

Test

2010-09-27T10:36:00.001-07:00

Test