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Do you recall what the criteria were for the awards in the bottom-right of that page? I'm especially curious what one would have to do to merit the title of 'Kissing Pigs' or 'Gold…

To elaborate a bit more: Diplomacy differs greatly from similar games (i.e. Axis and Allies, Risk) in that each army/fleet has the same 'strength'. There is no die-rolling involved…

There's also the Lyttle Lytton contest[0], which is a similar contest that limits entries to 200 words, plus has some additional contests. I'm a fan of the Found contest, which is …

That reminds me of this timeline on when we're going to exhaust certain natural resources (which has antimony running out at 2020): http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120618-global-…

Another similar case (albeit a more modern one) is Anatoli Bugorski, who caught his head in the path of a particle accelerator beam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

It actually makes for pretty good power plants, usually they're called some variant of 'solar power towers'. The plants use a bunch of adjustable mirrors that focus sunlight in ord…

I'm definitely a fan of the brief 'About Moves' section they have at the bottom of the page. Too often these acquisition posts offer no details about what the app/company actually …

It's analogous to the current situation with the metric and imperial unit systems - yes, it would make sense to switch away from imperial units, but it would require many people to…

That reminds me of the book The Windup Girl - it's set in the 23rd century, and all of the natural resources we use today have been depleted, so energy storage is done by having ge…