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Now demand for quinoa (pronounced KEE-no-ah) is soaring in rich countries, as American and European consumers discover the “lost crop” of the Incas. The surge has helped raise farmers’ incomes here in one of the hemisphere’s poorest countries. But there has been a notable trade-off: Fewer Bolivians can now afford it, hastening their embrace of…
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(via German Domestic Discipline, Old School – Kinky Delight) In this example, both have the right to discipline their partner, it would seem. The sight at the link is highly NSFW.
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fyeahanatomy: The Organ Tunic visually demonstrates the organs of the body using a set of realistic, velcro organs. Healthy organ set includes includes 9 fabric organs, embroidered pelvis & backbone, 3D ribcage, set of 7 labels and a reference sheet. Spare parts are available Get it here.(there’s also one for adults)
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Ben Bashford – Notebook of Things: DisplayCabinet
Ben Bashford – Notebook of Things: DisplayCabinet bashford: DisplayCabinet is the output of 24 hours with Tim Burrell Saward and Dan Williams “connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to us” as part of the Pachube Internet of Things Hackathon. What we did. The aim of our…
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The Full Spelunky on Spelunky
makegames: At this year’s Game Developers Conference, I gave a 30-minute talk with my friend Andy Hull about Spelunky and how it went from being a freeware PC game to the XBLA project that we’re both working on right now. Overall, I think the talk went quite well (whew)! You can find footage of the talk somewhere…
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What art can do for science (and vice versa)
virtualconcept: Astronomers will know Toruń in Poland as the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, and tourists as one of the country’s oldest, most beautiful cities. Since the summer of 2008, however, the Centre of Contemporary Art (CoCA) has put it firmly on the map for modern art aficionados. Its newly appointed artistic director Belgrade-born Dobrila Denegri…
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What art can do for science (and vice versa)
virtualconcept: Astronomers will know Toruń in Poland as the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, and tourists as one of the country’s oldest, most beautiful cities. Since the summer of 2008, however, the Centre of Contemporary Art (CoCA) has put it firmly on the map for modern art aficionados. Its newly appointed artistic director Belgrade-born Dobrila Denegri…
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paperbits: Automatically Slice Your 3D Model for Lasercutting « Ponoko – Blog Slicer3 is a handy, free plugin for Google SketchUp that does pretty much what it sounds like. It will take any solid 3D model and turn it into slices that follow the contours of the form. Not just useful for lasercutting: seems like a…
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Important Advisory about Amazon’s Appstore Distribution Terms To all members of the game development community: Two weeks ago, Amazon launched its own Android Appstore. We know that many developers have been eagerly looking forward to that launch in hopes that it would represent a great new revenue opportunity and a fresh take on downloadable game…
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Important Advisory about Amazon’s Appstore Distribution Terms To all members of the game development community: Two weeks ago, Amazon launched its own Android Appstore. We know that many developers have been eagerly looking forward to that launch in hopes that it would represent a great new revenue opportunity and a fresh take on downloadable game…