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A Facebook Game We Might Actually Play: Monty Python’s The Ministry of Silly Games

by Susana Polo | 4:29 pm, December 3rd

We can’t be the only people in the universe who ever took a crack at the computer game Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, but judging by its comically sparse Wikipedia page, we don’t have much company. To summarize: imagine that Myst took place in a setting made out of every Monty Python sketch ever. Those same puzzles based on figuring out the underlying logic of the setting are now based on the logic of the Dead Parrot sketch or similar. Now, imagine that just as you think you are completing the game by assembling all the ingredients for salmon mousse; you instead unlock the second half of the game, which takes place in a completely different setting that makes the last one look as straight forward and causal as a Dick and Jane book.

Which is why if Monty Python makes a game, even a Facebook game, we are down for that.

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Busted: The Black Death Was Indeed Bubonic Plague

by Susana Polo | 4:02 pm, October 9th

We had no idea, but apparently there is some dispute among the historical/scientific community as to whether the Bubonic Plague was actually responsible for the pandemic known as The Black Death, which killed off more than a third of Europe’s population in the 1300′s.

The Black Death occurred long before scientists and doctors would come to understand the existence of bacteria or viruses, and all we have to go on are historical accounts written at a terrifying point in history where one in three people were dropping dead with only a few days warning; and so it makes a kind of sense, actually, that scientists aren’t really sure which specific pathogen was at fault.

But thanks to some clever DNA testing, scientists now have a better indication of the culprit: Yersinia pestis, more commonly known as the Bubonic Plague.

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Fire with Fire: Researchers Block Spam Using Spammy Botnets

by Robert Quigley | 8:54 am, January 25th

Just as former bank robbers are the best at stopping current bank robbers and venom can be thwarted by antivenom from the same snake, so, apparently, are the botnets that spew out billions of spam messages each day useful for stopping new spam in its tracks. Researchers at Berkeley’s International Science Institute have found that by capturing an infected bot and analyzing the template it uses to blast out its infernal payload, they can accurately predict and filter out the kinds of spam messages that botnets will send out — all without accidentally capturing legitimate e-mail.

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