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  • RAND | Monographs | The Beginner’s Guide to Nation-Building
    "This guidebook is a practical “how-to” manual on the conduct of effective nation-building. It is organized around the constituent elements that make up any nation-building mission: military, police, rule of law, humanitarian relief, governance, economic stabilization, democratization, and development. The chapters describe how each of these components should be organized and employed, how much of each is likely to be needed, and the likely cost." Not your average "for dummies" book, then.
    (tags: rand research nationbuilding government collapse politics )
  • haloscreenshots.com | where halo screenshots become art
    "In collaboration with Bungie and Microsoft we are bringing the artistry and almost infinite content of the Halo 3 world into your world. For the first time ever, custom screenshot images created on the Xbox 360 console during Halo 3 gameplay are available as remastered fine art products, and delivered ready to hang on your wall." Single-click from the Bungie.net screenshot viewer to buying prints (or canvases) of your screengrabs. Superb.
    (tags: art service gaas halo3 games screengrabs printing )
  • Table of Condiments
    …That Periodically Go Bad. Somewhat useful, surprisingly.
    (tags: cooking reference periodictable pastiche humour science )
  • Jökulhlaup – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Because I've never known how to spell it until now, and it's one of my favourite words.
    (tags: glaciers flooding jokulhlaup )
  • Rolando
    Very beautiful, and, so far, very sensible implementation of touch interactions. Looking forward to playing much more of this over the holidays.
    (tags: games rolando iphone touchscreen )
  • Lookspring » Snapping point
    "Tears shouldn’t be our goal. Stories don’t need to be our tools. The majority of art forms don’t rely on narrative for their emotional impact. Stop and think about that for a second. The games industry tends to draw on such an amazingly limited roster of inspirations that it’s easy to forget it. But our obsession with linear, story-based – word-based, even – non-participatory art at the expense of all the other forms makes life so much harder for games, and it makes me crazy."
    (tags: games art narrative story emotion )
  • Periodic Table of Awesoments
    "Modern day awesominers know there are actually 118 fundamental "awesoments" that compose all good things. The Periodic table of Awesoments can be a very useful tool. It's designed to show the relationships between awesoments, and often one can even predict how awesoments interact simply by their positions on the table."
    (tags: humour visualization awesome dorky periodictable )
  • Improve your jQuery – 25 excellent tips
    Very good – some good stuff around how the library works, but also lots of basics around how to optimise Javascript.
    (tags: javascript programming development tips jquery advice )
  • Left 4 Dead Review | My Chemical Romance
    Gerard Way reviews Left 4 Dead on My Chemical Romance's (totally excellent) blog.
    (tags: games awesome review left4dead mcr mychemicalromance dontcrossthestreams )
  • Haiku | My Chemical Romance
    "Left 4 Dead is out
    Friends kill zombies together
    Is it worth getting?"
    Yes Gerard, it is.
    (tags: games left4dead haiku mcr mychemicalromance )
  • How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub
    "If you want a recipe for restless sleep, I can give you one. Add one part “what will my wife think” with 3,000 parts Benjamin Franklin; stir in a “beer anytime you damn well please” and top with a chance at financial independence."
    (tags: microsoft development business software github )

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