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These are my links for January 30th through February 11th:

• Facebook profiles for places – millions of facebook profiles analyzed.
  (tags: facebook visualization data analytics social statistics research demographics )
• Facebook | The Importance of Thinking Before You Post –
  (tags: facebook socialnetworking socialmedia psychology thinking )
• The Third Tribe –
  (tags: marketing community forum internet social blog howto media )
• TeXblog – Typography with TeX and LaTeX –
  (tags: latex blog tex typography tutorial resources blogs tips )
• Dot Plots: A Useful Alternative to Bar Charts –
  (tags: charts excel graphs visualization )
• Exalabs –
  (tags: searchengine innovation search )
• Apple Inc. patents related to phones – IP.com –
  (tags: apple iphone patents )
• IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On –
  (tags: browser webdesign html5 )
• Edison – Welcome –
  (tags: self-experimentation science life psychology games self-improvement )
• NoName e.V. –
  (tags: heidelberg computer ccc verein hacker )

These are my links for November 19th through November 23rd:

• DANCE AS LIFE « EL FIRULETE –
  (tags: tango philosophy dance lessons )
• Brewtus | Google Groups –
  (tags: brewtus forum espresso )
• Floorcraft explained at Phantastango –
  (tags: phantastango floorcraft tango dance filetype:jpeg system:filetype:jpg system:media:image )
• If Enlightenment Came with a Warning Label… | You Are Truly Loved –
  (tags: buddhism interesting toread warning label truth )
• Basic tango pointers: notes from my Tango Fundamentals class –
  (tags: dance tango teaching resources reference games energy milonga flow floorcraft )

Macworld has two features online: a) a best of games 2005 as well as b) a preview of good games to be released in 2006. My major problem with a) is: there is no „best strategy game of 2005“ – actually: are there any good strategy games being released that are non-3d accelerated shootem ups with some strategy elements in them? Some civ-like, some starcraft like games? Turn based or real time strategy that is worth playing all over? There will be Civ 3 and Civ 4 in 2006, there was Master of Orion 3 (a major sucker Ⅰ believe); still no successor to Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri – THE best strategy game ever

Ⅰ just read that Aspyr is going to publish the Mac version of Sid Meyer’s Civilization 4. And, of course, Brad Oliver is doing the port. He did a very great Job porting SMAC and SMAX to OSX – so Ⅰ am pretty certain this will be awesome! Since these days Brad has become some sort of my „personal hero“ – he was working on SMAC/X bug fixes as well as a OSX version without it being his main job – aka spare time – or personal self development or so. He was also very good at answering emails as well; so, Brad, if you read this: Thank you so much – you have made a considerable time of those days a very good time to live in. Ⅰ just hope SMAX will at least be recompiled to run on Intel Macs in th future – it is still the only game that Ⅰ play these days, and has been so for quite some years now. (Side note: are there any games out there that can compete with SMAX??).

Good times ahead – even though the port won’t be done till beginning/mid 2006.