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BioShock 2 is free for PS Plus members

Whee!

Free BioShock 2 for PS Plus members starting tomorrow

BioShock 2, a game whose appreciation is a bit of a slow burn, will be free for PlayStation Plus members following tomorrow’s PSN Tuesday update. If you’re interested in spending some money on BioShock 2, there’s always the well-conceived Minerva’s Den add-on.

Other highlights for Plus members tomorrow include Rockstar Game Collection 1 (Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, L.A. Noire and Midnight Club: Los Angeles Complete Edition) for 10 percent off at $53.99. There’s also Puddle for half off at $3.50 on PS3 and $2.80 on Vita.

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News

VentureBeat covers Owncloud

VentureBeat published an article about Owncloud today. We’re hoping this will kick off some serious attention ahead AppNation IV.

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Entertainment

Watercolor caricatures by John Cox

John Cox does excellent political/philosophical illustrations.

4 OUT OF 5 CARICATURES AGREE… (John Cox Art)

Do you enjoy this website and know that special someone who could use a good laugh? Let me invite you to share the gift of humor by commissioning a caricature for the Christmas Season.

For $75 (plus postage cost), you’ll receive a 9″ x11″ watercolor caricature based on photographs you can simply e-mail. Within three days of making a Paypal payment, I’ll send you a finished caricature that’ll be a hilarious Christmas story for years to come. Just contact me at my e-mail address, john555cox@hotmail.com, and we can get started!

(JUST A REMINDER: Ordering a caricature in the next few days will allow for any possible postal delays.)

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Entertainment

Celebrate Xmas the Victorian way

Grabbing a flaming piece of fruit sounds like good fun. Also, Lord of Misrule sounds like a better job title than Founder or Chief Technologist. Maybe it’s time for new business cards.

Celebrating the Christmas of the Past

English Heritage has some tips for celebrating Christmas in the Tudor and Victorian styles, if you want to be more traditional than everyone around you. For example, a Tudor-style Christmas would start with putting one person in charge of Christmas and all its parties.

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Politics

Pentagon protecting us from drones with directives

As we all know, once a bureaucrat writes a directive, the problem is solved. Thankfully, we have a directive in place to make sure it’s always a real human pressing a button to drop bombs from a drone. There will be no chance of incompetent humans making mistakes nor of a computer virus taking over the drones.

Pentagon: A Human Will Always Decide When a Robot Kills You | Danger Room | Wired.com

Worried about the day when the robots become self-aware and start deciding who lives and who dies? The Pentagon’s actually written a directive to make sure that can’t happen, whatever the next steps are in autonomous robots.

Also: Drone crashes mount at civilian airports overseas – The Washington Post