My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, in which I clinically evaluate the card game Dominion.
huge tracts of land
May 9th, 2011Iron Man, MD
April 29th, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, in which I clinically evaluate the possibility of a medical student believing that he is Tony Stark.
there may be cake inside this Orange Box, but that might be a lie
April 22nd, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate my geek sin of never having played anything in The Orange Box, and how I have now sought indulgences for said sin.
infectious linkage
April 18th, 2011- The wreckage of the Titanic is being consumed by a multi-species superorganism that utilizes quorum sensing to communicate between different types of microbes.
- Variable environmental factors in space seem to cause medications to lose potency far more quickly than planetside on earth, making for an added potential challenge to prolonged manned spaceflight.
- Honey has long been known for it’s antibacterial and wound healing properties, and new research shows that it specifically may inhibit bacterial biofilm formation, as well as positively affect resistance genes in said bacteria to antibiotics.
- A Legionella outbreak at the Playboy mansion has been traced to a hot tub (shock of shocks) through the use of Twitter, Facebook, and website epidemiological tracking methods.
Black Summer – Ellis/Ryp
April 14th, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate the graphic novel Black Summer by Warren Ellis and Juan Jose Ryp.
sign of the Raven(con)
April 8th, 2011I’ll be heading down to Ravencon shortly in Richmond, VA – if you happen to be in the area, feel free to stop by and say howdy. It should be a good time, and at the very least, I WILL MAKE IT SO.
Ahem.
I’ll be adding wisdom and snark in equal measure to the following:
- Staying Safe Online (Saturday, 12:00)
- Every Generation Has It’s Own Disease (Saturday, 13:00)
- Life Or Something Like It (Saturday, 20:00)
- All A-Twitter (Sunday, 9:00)
- Writing For Blogs (Sunday, 10:00)
- A TARDIS Full Of Smallpox (Sunday, 13:00)
The Moon Ranger will be contributing to the following, with considerable more grace than I:
- Landsat Data Continuity Mission (Saturday, 14:00)
- All A-Twitter (Sunday, 9:00)
As always, I may telegraph my comments, and feel free to track me down that way as well.
dropping a deuce on Drop 7
April 7th, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate the lovely iPhone game Drop 7 and the not so lovely effect digital software distribution through iTunes has had on it.
at least we made it to first base
April 3rd, 2011My weekly consultation (from two weeks ago… oops) is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate my date with the flick Battle: Los Angeles.
now I wait 10 hours for a peasant to craft my healing potions
March 17th, 2011My weekly consultation is live at The Secret Lair, wherein I clinically evaluate Dragon Age: Legends, the Facebook tie-in game to Dragon Age 2.
on biased cognition, and handware
March 14th, 2011
P5 Glove, cc by-nc image from Roo Reynolds via Flickr
- Daniel Casasanto on his 2011 study in Psychological Science, When Left is ‘Right’: Motor fluency shapes abstract concepts. doi:10.1177/0956797611401755
