Good thing I never read anything at AOL

by epSos.de

AOL buys Huffpo
[Via Boing Boing]

AOL is to buy the Huffington Post for $315M. Arianna Huffington will also “take control of all of AOL’s editorial content.” [NYT]

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I gave up on the Huffington Post quite some time ago, as it had degenerated into the sort of tabloid writing – it was the anti-vaccine stuff that decided me – seen in so many other sites, like Drudge, Gawker, Politico.

But, good for them, getting a bolus of money for their work. I’m just glad she will take over editorial control of something I do not already read. I do not expect ot to alter my reading habits at all.

A conundrum – to buy a nice looking knockoff game for iOS when the real game is not available?

Gameloft to release Starcraft on iOS devices—or so it appears
[Via Ars Technica]

There is the act of borrowing ideas and themes from past sources to inform your video games, and then there is the new trailer for GameLoft’s Starfront: Collision on the other. It’s not just that the game is a StarCraft clone; it’s the fact that every one of the game’s assets seems to be taken from Blizzard’s game, changed just enough to avoid legal repercussions, and then crammed into the game.

Bonus points for choice of fonts. Take a look for yourself.

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The trailer looks cool. The key to Starcraft was the well-tested scenarios. But for something at a nice price, this could waste some time.

Blizzard may never come out with Starcraft for the iOS. So, I think I might be checking this out when it is available. Castle games have always been popular on iOS. This one just plays like another one.

Youth is not a benefit when it comes to research proposals

Oh Postdoc, Why so critical? | Candid Engineer in Academia
http://scientopia.org/blogs/candidengineer/2011/02/05/oh-postdoc-why-so-critical/

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Sending this from inside Flipboard. So I will have to do formatting in WordPress. Still easier and more informative than The Daily. I looked at that sucker again today and still found it’s USA Today approach not very useful.