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Taboo: The Sixth Sense (Rare - NES - 1989)

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Here’s one interesting thing about Taboo: The Sixth Sense. Almost every time you play it, the cursor for text input is a reddish-brown square BUT there’s an extremely infrequent occurence where  the cursor is replaced with a transparent red skull. I’ve spent a lot of time playing this game, to the point where it became a daily ritual throughout most of 2009 and yet among what has probably been hundreds of taboo run-throughs I’ve only seen the red skull thing happen like 4-5 times ever. Luckily, I was using an emulator one of those times so I was able to save state it (here’s the file but unfortunately I was using Nestopia for Mac at the time and I don’t know if it works on anything else) I can’t remember if I’ve ever told anyone about this before, and I haven’t seen any mention of it on the internet but it’s something that’s always been pretty fascinating to me. 

My point here is that this game is haunted, and is probably responsible for the great Nintendo fire of 2009 (described here). I assume that my copy tried to play itself or something, which caused the whole box of nintendo tapes to burst into flames in the middle of the night. 

Anyway I thought it might be nice to mention this here now that Halloween’s finally over. 

Yr Pal,

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If the phrase “perks for social media influence” makes you think of Klout and its free Axe Body Spray, you’ll be surprised to hear what business cloud services firm Salesforce is handing out to influencers. Daniel Debow, an executive at Salesforce, said today at Quartz’s Next Billion eventthat on the company’s internal social media platform, called Chatter, influencers, who are called Chatterati, are rewarded for their influence and high follower counts with trips to Salesforce’s executive retreats. The idea is that social media within companies help surface good ideas no matter who came up with them, and sending even low-level employees to events where they can speak directly with leaders helps democratize decision making in a company.

Another possibility is that these systems will one day lead to perverse incentives for employees to waste time on a company’s internal social media platform. But Debow says that hasn’t happened yet. Because Chatter leads to more transparency, it’s easy to tell who is a blowhard and who is really adding value at a company.

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Most of my friends then replaced me.

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Soren Johnson, best known for being the lead designer on Civilization 4, has founded Mohawk Games through the Stardock Strategic Investment Fund. The founding of the studio was hinted at by Stardock CEO Brad Wardell earlier this year, who will serve as president of the company. Rounding out the trinity of co-founders is Dorian Newcomb, another award-winning alum of the Civilization series, who will act as art director.

"Our goal is to make games that will be played for years, based on elegant, replayable systems that are not limited by finite content creation," said Johnson. "Our development process emphasizes rapid iteration above all else, requiring our games to be playable as soon as possible so that we have time to find the fun."

The Baltimore-based studio is currently recruiting top game industry talent and has begun development on its first game, which will use the Nitrous Engine, created by Oxide Games. Oxide happens to be another studio formed of Civ vets funded by Wardell's Stardock. At least now we know what Wardell did with some of that Impulse sale money.

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SON MYUNG HEE, detail / 2010 / Aluminum wire, fiberglass lifecasting.

SON MYUNG HEE / 2010 / Aluminum wire, fiberglass lifecasting.

Wedding / 2009 / Aluminum wire, fiberglass lifecasting.

Han Hye yeon / 2011 / Aluminum wire, fiberglass lifecasting.

Han Hye yeon, detail / 2011 / Aluminum wire, fiberglass lifecasting.

Kim Seong Su / 2010 / Aluminum wire, fiberglass, lifecasting.

Kim Seong Su, detail / 2010 / Aluminum wire, fiberglass lifecasting.

Lie Sand Bong’s Dress / 2008 / Aluminum wire, fiberglass lifecasting

Lie Sand Bong’s Dress, detail / 2008 / Aluminum wire, fiberglass lifecasting

Korean artist Seung Mo Park (previously) continues to amaze with his astonishingly crafted figurative sculptures made with tightly wrapped layers of aluminum wire based on fiberglass forms. The works shown here are part of the Brooklyn-based artist’s Human series where he recreates the delicate wrinkles and folds of clothing as well as the sinuous musculature of the human body in metallic layers remeniscent of tree rings. He’s also sculpted bicycles, musical insturments and other forms as part of his Object series. (via My Modern Met)

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what a cool concept! 

Led by Ultima creator Richard Garriott, indie developer Portalarium released a new update video for Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues detailing the game's progress over the past six months. The 25-minute video covers the scenic towns of Kingsport and Owl's Head, dipping into the types of homes that players can own before showing the game's crafting system and the first prototype of its combat. Garriott and company earned $1,919,275 on Kickstarter in April to develop the game, and has hauled in an extra $698,480 since then through independent funding on Portalarium's website.

Shroud of the Avatar is a fantasy RPG for PC that leans heavily on world exploration. The game features single-player and online multiplayer modes reminiscent of Ultima Online. It is currently on pace for a late 2014 launch with backer-exclusive early access planned for late 2013.

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Billed as a sequel to the ancient Kama Sutra, The Married Kama Sutra: The World’s Least Erotic Sex Manual is a hilarious and/or depressing illustrated guide to the (nonsexual) positions of married life. The positions have unhappy names like “The Dishwasher Position” and “Interrupted Congress” and are accompanied by humorous captions on the travails of marriage. The Married Kama Sutra is by comedy writer Simon Rich and cartoonist Farley Katz and will be released on October 29, 2013. It is available for pre-order on Amazon.

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First time accepted submitter stanga writes "Cornell researchers unveiled an attack on the Bitcoin mining protocol that enables selfish mining pools to earn more than their fair share. In a technical report the authors explain this attack can be performed by a pool of any size. Rational miners will join this pool to increase their benefits, creating a snowball effect that may end up with a pool commanding a majority of the system's mining power. Such a pool would be able to single-handedly control the blockchain, violating the decentralized nature of the increasingly successful Bitcoin. The authors propose a patch to the protocol that would protect the system from selfish mining pools smaller than 25% of the system. They also show that Bitcoin can never be safe from selfish mining pools larger than 33% of the network, whereas it was previously believed that only groups larger than 50% of the network were a threat to the system. The question is — can the miners operating today adopt the suggested fix and dismantle too-large pools before a selfish mining pool arises?"

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Good story of badBIOS, a really nasty piece of malware. The weirdest part is how it uses ultrasonic sound to jump air gaps.

Ruiu said he arrived at the theory about badBIOS's high-frequency networking capability after observing encrypted data packets being sent to and from an infected machine that had no obvious network connection with -- but was in close proximity to -- another badBIOS-infected computer. The packets were transmitted even when one of the machines had its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards removed. Ruiu also disconnected the machine's power cord to rule out the possibility it was receiving signals over the electrical connection. Even then, forensic tools showed the packets continued to flow over the airgapped machine. Then, when Ruiu removed internal speaker and microphone connected to the airgapped machine, the packets suddenly stopped.

With the speakers and mic intact, Ruiu said, the isolated computer seemed to be using the high-frequency connection to maintain the integrity of the badBIOS infection as he worked to dismantle software components the malware relied on.

"The airgapped machine is acting like it's connected to the Internet," he said. "Most of the problems we were having is we were slightly disabling bits of the components of the system. It would not let us disable some things. Things kept getting fixed automatically as soon as we tried to break them. It was weird."

I'm not sure what to make of this. When I first read it, I thought it was a hoax. But enough others are taking it seriously that I think it's a real story. I don't know whether the facts are real, and I haven't seen anything about what this malware actually does.

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Owl Turd Comix has created a funny comic that illustrates how phones used to be versus how phones are today.

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