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15 Aug 18:24

But Seriously, These Meteorites Are Actually Flying People

by Andrew P Collins on Jalopnik, shared by Carli Velocci to Gizmodo

I hope you were lucky enough to catch the Perseid Meteor Shower last week. If you were watching it from the Spanish island of La Palma, a few of those streaks might have actually been these maniacs in wing suits.

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06 Jul 17:50

New Study Busts the Myth That Knights Couldn't Move Well in Armor

by Jennifer Ouellette

Medieval armor has a bad reputation when it comes to how much movement is possible for a fully-armored and outfitted knight. Chances are you’ve bought into the notion that it resulted in clunky, slow, and awkward battles.

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18 Feb 19:45

Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court’s Unlikely Defender of Technology

by Katharine Trendacosta

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away yesterday, leaving behind a controversial—at best—legacy. But the one area where he was shockingly forward-looking was in technology.

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16 Feb 14:55

Milestone 3 hit, here's the plan!

by balder

So at the start of this year, we had a team meeting about the milestones and the Toolshed. I said I hoped we could meet Milestone 3 by March 20th, because it will be the one year anniversary of launching the Toolshed. I thought it might have been a little optimistic, and said that we might have to announce something about trying to reach that goal by the anniversary if we wanted to hit it. Nothing as formal as a pledge drive or anything, just a news post at the start of March to let everyone know that we had the 20th in mind.

 

Well, you all put us over the mark on February 8th

 

This is incredible, and I continue to stand in awe of the Erfworld fanbase. But it has created a set of those "good problems to have." See, there were promises made at the Milestone 3 level. I said we'd relaunch Hamstard.com, have guest art in the Art Blog, and start paying a professional word rate to stories in our Fiction stream.

 

We're not quite ready to do any of those things. We've been working on a site redesign since before Christmas, and we were planning to launch it in late March or April. It's going to have the Hamstard site embedded with the Erfworld site, and have submissions guidelines for the paid stories and art, etc. We're still in the design and coding phases with a lot of that stuff, and we want to roll it all out at once.

 

So hang on for those unlocks. I am soliciting some pros I know to be guest artists and seeking out some initial stories to post. I've posted a Hamstard and will keep making more of those, but I think it's safe to say that it'll be like 6-10 weeks before we're really doing everything that was unlocked at Milestone 3. The web team is hard at work.

 

And in the meantime, of course, the art team is killin' it and we're keeping the story rolling. Everyone on Team Erfworld is grateful for your generous and patient support. Our 10th anniversary will be in December, and it seems like 2016 is already the best year we've ever had. Thank you all!

 

 

06 Jan 14:40

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15 Dec 18:08

Ships Have Black Boxes—And Apparently, They're a Cinch to Hack

by Bryan Lufkin

Voice, navigation, and radar data aboard ships are all at risk, according to an expert who claims that some devices that contain sensitive ship information just aren’t secure enough. This could be good news for pirates and spies, and bad news for the good guys.

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