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Linden Lab’s ‘dio’

I wanted this to be a lot cooler than it actually is. It’s a toolkit for making Scott Adams-style adventure games, the fancy kind with pictures rather than the text-only Infocom ones. Six years ago we were thinking we’d have Second Life in a browser tab any day now…

Exclusive: Linden Lab’s ‘dio’ to Let You Gamify Your Media for Fun and (Eventually) Profit – Forbes

Do you think Instagram would be more fun if it were an experience rather than a site? Do you think advertising could benefit from more interactivity? Do you like playing games? Do you want to make money the new-fashioned way? Linden Lab says they have what you’re looking for.

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Gun Buy-back turns into ad hoc gun show

Vivat liberum mercatum!

Gun LOL: Seattle Cops Get Pwned

Nothing gives me an eye roll quite as much as hearing the phrase “gun culture” applied to America. Alls I can’t figure out is which is dominant. Is it the “gun culture,” “big-car culture,” The “drive-in, diners & dives culture,” or something else altogether?

Or, do all these sub-cultures simply have a common thread running through them, manifest when people are so messily left to their own proclivities to pursue their own values for they own sakes?

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Self-help books treat depression

This data threatens those who consider depression to be solely biological and treatable by drugs only.

BBC News – Self-help books ‘treat depression’

Prescribing self-help books on the NHS is an effective treatment for depression, a study suggests.

Patients offered books, plus sessions guiding them in how to use them, had lower levels of depression a year later than those offered usual GP care.

The effect was seen in addition to the benefits of other treatments such as antidepressants, Scottish researchers report in the journal Plos One.

Such an approach may help the NHS tackle demand for therapy, they said.

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Half-Life on Steam for Linux

More good news from Valve.

Half-Life now runs on Mac OS X and Linux, we assure you

Now with a Steam page that doesn’t expressly list Mac as a supported platform, we understand your skepticism regarding the headline to this very post. Indeed Half-Life has been ported to both OS X and Linux today.

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Mega launches

The battle over freedom of use of digital files sure is dramatic. Kim Dotcom is back, but will he win in the end? It scares me to think about these battles being the start of a global war in cyberspace. If it’s Dotcom, Assange and Anonymous on one side versus the RIAA, MPAA and FBI on the other, who will win and who will be collateral damage?

Dotcom’s Mega Launches To Unprecedented Demand | TorrentFreak

The much anticipated rebirth of Megaupload took place in the last few hours with interest living up to expectations. In less than one hour the site picked up 100,000 new registrations, going on to 500,000 and beyond just a few hours later. As the site struggled to cope with demand it became unresponsive in the face of an unprecedented flood of users eager to test out the new file-hosting site. Just a few minutes ago the launch party at Kim Dotcom’s mansion began, with some interesting reveals.

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