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AllenVarney

6 amazing jellyfish species (Jellyfish Facts): jellyfishfacts.net/the-6-most-ama… /cool to know there's a "Jellyfish Facts" site /via @matthiasrascher about 4 hours ago via web
Earliest musical instruments found - flutes of bone and ivory, 42K years old (BBC): bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… about 8 hours ago via web
RI Providence-Journal coverage of 38 Studios shutdown: news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/… about 9 hours ago via web
My 2006 Escapist article on Rooster Teeth, "Red vs. Blue Makes Green": escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/… about 10 hours ago via web
How Rooster Teeth won the internet w/ "Red vs.Blue" (@rkrigney, Wired): wired.com/gamelife/2012/… about 10 hours ago via web
@hotdogsladies "Gift" as a transitive verb has been around for centuries. OED cite from 1619: groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/al… about 10 hours ago via web in reply to hotdogsladies
S Korea targets smugglers of capsules full of - uhhh - powdered human flesh (BBC): bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… about 11 hours ago via web
The automation of govt coercion (@johnrobb): globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrill… about 11 hours ago via web
The unqualified muppets who supposedly oversee risk at JP Morgan (Bloomberg): bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-2… about 11 hours ago via web
Scott Jennings (@lum_) on the horrible week in MMOs (Broken Toys): brokentoys.org/2012/05/25/the… about 11 hours ago via web
Documentary about US composer Raymond Scott, "Documenting Dad" - made by his son (Rotten Tomatoes): rottentomatoes.com/m/deconstructi… /opens June 15 about 14 hours ago via web
You're 3x more likely to get computer malware by visiting church websites than by surfing for pr0n (@Slate): slate.com/articles/techn… about 15 hours ago via web
World's hardest-working countries - chart (BBC): bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-… /#1 S Korea by a mile, Chile, Greece, Russia /via @brainpicker about 16 hours ago via web
Sudden onslaught of weird Horse-ebooks-style spambots. about 16 hours ago via web
$$$ to print a card game, breakpoints for #Kickstarter funding (@danielsolis): danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/belle-… /lots of hard numbers about 16 hours ago via web
Having siblings may affect your tidiness (Cheap Talk): cheaptalk.org/2012/05/22/sib… 10:09 PM May 24th via web
The most corrupt US states - infographic (@GOOD): awesome.good.is.s3.amazonaws.com/transparency/w… /#1 DC (by a mile), #2 LA, then IL, NY, PA, OH 4:08 PM May 24th via web
Microsoft locks down Visual Studio tools for Win8 (Ars): arstechnica.com/information-te… 1:39 PM May 24th via web
Aussie iron-mine magnate Gina Rinehart now world's richest woman - US$28B (BBC): bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… 1:36 PM May 24th via web
Yet another insect menace blights beleaguered #AustinTX - rasberry crazy ants (Statesman): statesman.com/news/local/ras… 12:53 PM May 24th via web

Name Allen Varney
Location Austin, Texas
Web http://www.allenv...
Bio Writer, game designer, editor of the official PARANOIA fiction line (ultravioletbooks.com)