Casino Carpet Keeps Are Ugly So You Gamble More

The same goes for the ceilings. Look at the carpet and ceiling in the photo below.

The carpet is so busy and obnoxious, it’s actually hard to stare at — so you look up. The ceiling does the same thing with bright lights and focusing shapes, so you look down. What do you see? People gambling. That’s the only thing they want you to think about.

There is even a professor at the University of Nevada who wants casino carpet hermeneutics as a legitimate academic discourse.

The busy carpet has another advantage, it camouflages stains. Casino carpets get vacuumed once a day, usually between 3am and 6am so they need to hide dirt the rest of the time. In fact, anytime you see really busy fabrics in high traffic areas (office buildings, hotels, malls, theaters, etc.), they’re often selected for their stain hiding abilities.

Big thanks to Todd M for submitting this secret!

Photo: Old Shoe Woman (CC) | Sources: AC, SFGate, MeetingsNet

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Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Have you had a chance to take a stroll into our Winter Wonderland snow globe at JumpStart.com? The Winter Wonderland is packed with special features in the exclusive snow globe, which admits elf-sized Jumpees only! To become the size of wee elves, your child’s Jumpee must submit themselves to the Elf-O-Matic for elfobetizing.

Voila, you're an elf.

Once the Jumpee has been converted to the right size, they can enter the snow globe Winter Wonderland.

Winter Wonderland Portal

There, they will find a bounty of activities, including:

• Special ice skating ice cavern

  An expansive ice skating rink!

• Balloon Rides
• High-speed sled races down the thrilling mountain-side
  

  Sled by this happy da-bomb-inable snowman at lightning speeds!

• And the Wonderland Express, a majestic train which may be departing soon!

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  Watch for the Wonderland Express to roll out soon!

  Not a member?  You can pick up the JumpStart.com Winter Wonderland package, lasting through January 31st, by clicking here.

Get Your Friends On-Board the Wonderland Express

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Game Enlists Justin Timberlake, Nicki Minaj For 'R.E.D.'

Now that Game’s R.E.D. album has been pushed back to 2010, he’s doing the right thing and putting the finishing touches on the project.

As previously reported Game’s been in the studio working on tracks with Pharrell and decided to show him his loyalty by getting his “Star Trak” emblem tattooed on his arm.

When he’s not busy paying homage to another man, he’s continuing to add new collabos to his forthcoming album.

His latest additions to the product include YM’s ‘Bride of Chucky’ Nicki Minaj and pop singer turned producer, Justin Timberlake.

Game spoke with Rap-Up about enlisting Timberlake for the project calling it “catastrophic.” He also added that he thinks the collaboration effort could earn him Grammy nods.

“Justin Timberlake came through last night…the vibe changed. It went to where I could see Grammy awards…so I had a really dope energy from him being in the booth last night…..never thought in my life that I would ever work with Justin, and then for it to turn out and be as catastrophic as it was amazing.”

While dishing out details on the JT collaboration, Game’s remained somewhat silent on the addition of Nicki Minaj. Remaining skimp on details he tweeted about the upcoming “classic” with the Barbie saying,

“Nicki Minaj made the R.E.D. album. gone be CLASSIC.”

Game’s R.E.D. album hits stores February 16, 2010.

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PHARREL GETS ROBBED BY MAGICIAN?!

OK, so I was joking about the being robbed but check it out, even Pharrel admitted he was going to check his bank account after.

By the way, word is that Game is ecstatic about the work that Pharrel has done on his forth coming album, so happy that he has just got a tattoo of Pharrel signifying their new friendship and pending success.

[Via http://lifepulseblog.com]

Paper: A Domain-Specific Embedded Language Approach for the Scripting of Game Artificial Intelligence

Yet again I have ignored this blog for quite some time – I’ve been really busy with an implementation of a game involving a Haskell back-end/Google Web Toolkit front-end (more on this in a future post)  and other deadlines. Anyways I thought I’d share more info on how 4Blocks’s AI was implemented using a DSL embedded in Haskell:

A Domain-Specific Embedded Language Approach for the Scripting of Game Artificial Intelligence, with Gordon Pace, in the Proceedings of the University of Malta Workshop in ICT (WICT’09), 2009.

More info on WICT can be found here. Co-incidentally thanks to Dr Pace’s Erdös Number of 4 I get to have one of at most 5.  Hope this short paper provides with some interesting lightweight reading. Also, any feedback is greatly appreciated!

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Gundam VS Gundam Next PLUS

Gundam VS Gundam NEXT PLUS

Merupakan game untuk PSP console game. Game ini merupkan seri terbaru dari Gundam VS Gundam game series. Untuk memainkannya diperlukan CFW 5.50 Gen D3 atau CFW 6.20

MS (Mobile suit) yang dapat dipakai lebih banyak daripada seri sebelumnya dimulai dari Seri Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) sampai dengan Gundam Unicorn (2010).

Untuk kendali MS nya tidak jauh berbeda dengan seri game sebelumnya, hanya saja kemampuan menangkis secara otomatis  sudah diganti dengan kemampuan menangkis manual.

Selamat mencoba.

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Amazing Adventures The Caribbean Secret: Explore the Caribbean and recover secret treasure!

Amazing Adventures The Caribbean Secret (43 MB download)
The Museum needs your help! Legend has it that a Spanish ship loaded with a fortune of gold went missing somewhere in the Caribbean. This mythical lost treasure is referred to by locals as the ‘Caribbean Secret’. Explore 25 amazing Caribbean locations finding over 2000 cleverly hidden objects and playing 8 unique mini-games to recover the Secret Treasure! Play three different game modes on your quest to help the museum recover the lost gold of legend. Good luck adventurer!

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