Bad News are Good News
Playing on hubdub.com is fun.
I’m playing on hubdub.com from time to time. It’s a funny online game of a prediction stock market. People creating questions for upcoming events and you can bet how this event will proceed in real.
For example: Who will be the new American president? Obama or McCain? Now it comes to all the news who’ve been floating around. Who will make it. That pushes the chances between Obama and McCain to various percentages. Say, for example, you start at a 12% probability that Obama makes it, while everyone sets on McCain. The more likely Obama will win the race the more money you will make if you sell your stocks. If you wait until the end when the question is settled, you earn the most money.
But don’t forget: It’s all play money 
One stupid S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ending …
Wish granter in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl
I wasted a bit of my free time to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I was fighting myself through hordes of bandits, mercenaries, soldiers, monsters until I reached the sarcophagus totally wasted (small amount of ammunition and armor). The ending I picked, was to sneak into the sarcophagus of the collapsed power plant of Chernobyl and find the wish granter; a mysterious monolith granting you one free wish.
I found it. The ending is a video and the charactarer you’re playing wishes…. “I want to be rich!”. The ending video shows him, rich of screws falling from the sarcophagus hull for a couple of seconds until he dies.
What a stupid moron? Such a stupid wish for all this work fighting through all the masses of evil? BRRRRRRR…
Update: I actually found a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. guide which lists all the possible endings of the game. So, it’s not the ending of the wish granter, but there are more endings determined by how you play.
Something different for the morning
Just tried and was totally amazed by this wonderful recipe I found on the internet > masala chai (indian spiced tea).
If you like tea and oriental spices, try it!
Something for Blinkenlights?
Just saw this post on information aesthetics. Would be awesome to play pong on this via blinkenlights *G
The largest color LED display worldwide, & the first photo-voltaic system integrated into a glass curtain wall in China. the display requires zero external energy, as the facade harvests solar energy by day & uses it to illuminate the screen after dark. [...] You can play with the online simulator, or watch a movie after the break.
Tags: blinkenlights, china, solar, led
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I got myself a blog on wordpress.
I hacked on a few blog products for Zope myself, but I abandon now those projects. I’m open for new challenges.
