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Today's Fresh Blogs...| On the hunt for vitamin D |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 5:00 am |
| Tags: Board, Breast, Cancer, Dark, Dietary, Dri, Fatty, Fish, Food, Fortified, Good, Housekeeping, Intake, International, Milk, Multivitamin, Nutrition, Reference, Risk, Skin, Sun, Sunscreen, Supplement, Units, Vitamin |
| -- the Food and Nutrition Board, responsible for setting the DRIs, have not yet updated guidelines in light of cancer concerns. So what's a girl to do? For starters, we need to understand that for overall health benefits, 1,000 IU (International Units) per day are necessary. The outdated DRI recommends 200 to 600 IU. This is based on |
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| Announcing the 43 Folders Job Board |
| Published: July 10, 2007, 1:54 pm |
| Tags: Admin, Productivity, Job Board, Jobs |
| expressed in us adding a job board — whether you’re looking or hiring, I hope you’ll find it useful and vocationally satisfying. [Note, 2007-07-10 11:27:35: adding new pal listings as friends come on-board.] admin, job board, jobs Featured 43f Job: Ruby/Rails Developers at ThoughtWorks Post your job to the 43f Job Board |
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| Marathon: Durandal and Spyglass Board Games on Xbox LIVE Arcade |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 8:27 pm |
| Tags: Microsoft, Games, Marathon Durandal, Spyglass Board Games, Xbox Live Arcade |
| Spyglass Board Games (ESRB rated E, 400 MS points, available worldwide) Spyglass Board Games offers a fun new take on classic board games, like Chess, Checkers, Mancala, and Reversi. Play and chat socially on Xbox LIVE , or play against the computer. Use the Xbox LIVE Vision camera to personalize the game board, playing |
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| 9 Favorite Games To Play With My Daughter |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 10:26 am |
| Tags: Blink, Card Games, Family, Mancala, Zingo, Kids Games, I Spy Bingo, Board Games, Memory, Junior Labyrinth, Reiner Knizia, Dominoes, Flea Circus, Guess Who |
| of the maze tiles on the board can be moved, which is accomplished by pushing the one extra maze tile against one row of tiles on the board and pushing a tile out the other side. This changes the layout of the board slightly, opening up some corridors that were closed off and closing off others that were open. Each turn a player moves one row |
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| A Most Personal Impersonal Game |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 8:27 am |
| Tags: Xplorers, Settlers Of Catan, Carcassonne, Web Games, Asobrain Games, Board Games |
| that allow you to play board games online. Settlers of Catan seems to be the mosts available for online play, although I know Carcassonne and Ticket to ride are also available (Carc on AsoBrain, even), and legions of Euro style board games can be played on BrettSpielWelt, a german boardgaming site. I urge anyone looking for a little more |
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| Looking Past the Game of Life |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 10:50 am |
| Tags: Settlers Of Catan, Puerto Rico, Carcassonne, Board Games |
| written by those who loved boardgames in their formative years but have no idea of the wealth of great games now on the market. I just want to scream: "Try Settlers of Catan, IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!" Just because you're old now (and I am!) doesn't mean you can't play boardgames! If you're like me you may just find you love boardgames even |
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| What I Love (and Hate) About the Board Game Experience |
| Published: July 19, 2007, 2:20 pm |
| Tags: House Rules, Kingmaking, Board Games |
| I know about board games I learned from my unclesOf course, the best thing about board games is when your uncle gets that glint in his eye that says "Nathan is exactly 7 spaces from Park Place and 9 from Boardwalk, sounds like it's time to mortgage my utilities to finally build those hotels I've been planning!" Yes, I was schooled |
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| 6 Fantastic Board Games You Can Play For Free |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 11:39 am |
| Tags: Board Games, Gaming, Online Gaming, Components |
| them one by one around the board or into your store as you go. At the end of the game, the player with the most stones wins.2. Checkers / Lines of ActionSome people feel that they've outgrown Checkers by the time they've reached adulthood, but it remains a challenging and intense game for adults. And the best way to play is on a larger board, |
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| Adrian's Games |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 9:23 am |
| Tags: Card Games, Game News, Board Games, Gaming |
| and eventually get solved, board games for $10 to $40 sound like a |
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| A New Blog, A New Game |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 10:49 am |
| Tags: Blogging, Board Games, Gaming |
| Life as a professional corporate blogger is interesting. There are many sites with advice about blogging qua blogging - i.e. making money directly from your blog. But many fewer resources available for corporate blogging - more specifically, how to transform from a personal blogger to a corporate blogger.For one trivial example, a corporate |
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| Gamers Gone Wild on Local TV |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 6:20 am |
| Tags: Game News, Board Games, Video Clips, Gaming, Game Industry |
| these both specify that board gamers are welcome.(Meanwhile, there's also a new blog carnival about modesty.)Capforge points us to this story in Entrepreneur magazine about Don McNeill who has made over $5 million from his board game You've Been Sentenced.The Bicycles, a pop group, are launching a DVD board game about themselves.Following |
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| Life is Still Nowhere Near Normal |
| Published: July 21, 2007, 2:56 pm |
| Tags: Puerto Rico, Personal, Game News, Blogging, Board Games, Gaming |
| a nice post about playing board games, both seriously and for fun.Big Brother apparently had a board game day last week. Games played: Downfall and Operation. Whoopee; 37 and 42 year old physical dexterity kids games.One of Gleemax's first online board games will be |
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| Checkers "Solved", Finally |
| Published: July 19, 2007, 3:09 pm |
| Tags: Checkers, Game News, Board Games, Gaming |
| According to Discover magazine, Jonathan Schaeffer has finally "solved" checkers with his Chinook program.I read Jonathan's book One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers almost ten years ago when his brother Dan (my neighbor) gave me a copy. It's a great book. The recurring theme was that everyone kept asking him "Isn't Checkers |
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| Session Report, in which we play Order of the Stick and other new games |
| Published: July 19, 2007, 1:36 pm |
| Tags: Game Group, Games Played, Game News, Board Games, Gaming |
| a game about street signs. BoardGameNews points us to the winners.I don't know when this article from Life appeared, where they tell you how to breathe life into your old board games.Mmm. Almost forgot: Infogrames had the rights to electronic versions of games using the Dungeons and Dragons licenses as well as many of Hasbro's popular board |
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| The Definitive List of Harry Potter Games |
| Published: July 18, 2007, 1:46 pm |
| Tags: Movies, Computer Games, Board Games, Gaming |
| you from buying them, is it?Board and Card GamesHarry Potter Chamber of Secrets Trivia GameA trivia game for two teams playing either Griffindor or Slytherin. Snitch question is the only one that counts.Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire Quidditch Dice GameFrom the rules: Roll the dice and place them on the Quidditch Pitch to earn goals and |
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