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Shiny Things - April 15th, 2008
Apr. 15th, 2008
05:53 am - Board Room Games closing?
Anyone else in the Indianapolis area heard about this (found on the IndyMavens forums)?
"For those of you in the Indianapolis area - The Boardroom in Broad Ripple will be closing on June 30th! According to the owner, he'll start putting the stock he has left on sale the first of June; what's left at the end will go back to the distributor. There's an impressive variety of RPG books there at present (including HEX books and GM screen), as well as a lot of the Osprey line (for those into models and miniatures) and a bunch of other games stuff."
08:17 am - Googlegängers
Via the Reaction blog, I just found this New York Times article on "Googlegängers", people on the web who share your name. Interesting article, but given my rather distinctive name, it doesn't apply to me. A Google search on "Carl Klutzke" turns up 11 pages of stuff about me and nobody else. It makes me feel kind of proud, lonely, and overexposed all at the same time. It also makes me realize that nothing you ever say on the Internet ever goes away (and that, as a result, I doubt I could ever get hired by Microsoft).
And I have to wonder when, if ever, this post will appear in such a search. :)
11:52 am - Kosher Pork? Un-Kosher Fish?
In my recent post on vat-grown meat I totally missed the religious ramifications. I wonder how experts on kashrut would interpret Leviticus 11 for such things? Pork would probably still be out, since the source of the meat still doesn't chew a cud, but for that reason vat-grown beef could be unkosher too. Likewise, they may forbid vat-grown fish because, like shellfish, it has no scales or fins. Could a Hindu or Buddhist eat vat-grown meat without violating ahimsa? I wonder.
12:56 pm - The Importance of Design at Microsoft
I was pretty excited when I found this Microsoft Design site. It looks like it has some interesting articles. But I refuse anymore to go check a web site for updates: I want an RSS feed. Hmmm, Microsoft's site about making things easy to use doesn't seem to have an RSS feed. Nor does it seem to have any contact information so I can ask them about it.
Oh, and the events they are promoting are from 2007. *sigh* Never mind.
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