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Today I happened to take a look in the Alpha Centauri forum here and suddenly realising that I own a copy of this game and I've never bothered to stick it into my PC. So about an hour ago I got my CD, fired up my PC and installed the game. And I have no clue what to do. Version is 1.0i (or so...

Who do you want to win the 2010 world cup? The Netherlands or Spain ? If you don't live in one of these countries, please explain why you are supporting that team.

Who will be this year's best actor on the pitch ? This award is named after Vítor Borba Ferreira, AKA Rivaldo for this acting in the 2002 WC: cVksdN4QnvA. The 2006 winner was Cristiano Ronaldo for this great piece of acting: 82ochcQ56Es Who will be this year's best actor ...

http://www.teleac.nl/nationaleinburgeringtest/quiz/ BTW ... I failed :blush:

From wikileaks; the 39 minute video where you see an American helicopter killing Reuters' journalist Saeed Chmagh and journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen. The images where denied for publication by the American government. Photo's: http://www.collateralmurder.com/en/photos.html Complete film...

In today's newpaper results on a questionnaire on todays views on life compared within generations were published. I'd like to know what you would answer to these questions. I'd like to compare these results to that in today's paper to see if the questionnaire is a local trend or a (more) global...

As you are all aware the game has been paused for some time now. The reason was talk of "impossible" RNG results. The game admin, the moderator-team and our contacts with the creators of the game at Firaxis performed an investigation. Here are the results: While the results are unusual...

Seven people have been killed and at least 20 injured in a pair of shootings at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, the US Army has confirmed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8345713.stm (CNN) -- Two gunmen in military uniforms shot and killed as many as nine people and wounded...

At the end of October the illustrated version of "The book of Genesis" by Robert Crumb will be released. Crumb is known to not shun any physical details of the human anatomy. Here a page (suitable for work): Some more pages can be found here (some pages show Adam and other early humans...

From CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/10/05/bear.attack/index.html She had a permit for keeping the bear. Unlucky tragedy or accident waiting to happen ?

I just heard this on the radio, but I'm hitherto unable to find a newssite with the news. Edit: CNN has it now http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/03/Japan.nakagawa.dead/index.html

I have; on 3 seperate occasions over a period of 15 years. It's amazing watching first hand a site of such historic relevance. This thread made me curious who else has been there. Which sites have you been to and what did you think of it ?

BBC link :crazyeye:

A FORMER Top Gun told yesterday how he was ordered to shoot down a massive UFO — over NORWICH. RAF controllers told US pilot Milton Torres to “lock on” and launch all 24 of his rockets over the city. Link Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vtt_rGLNLM What to make of this ...

Coffee can make women's breasts smaller: Swedish study http://www.thelocal.se/15016/20081016/ So; coffee-drinking women or not coffee-drinking women ?

The first patch is out. You can download and install it from within the game. Details: Link Patch 1 The focus of this patch is to fix some bugs that have been reported and to respond to feedback we've been seeing from the community about tuning and stability. We managed to squeak in a...

As you all will know, Sarah Palin held a speech at the Republican National Convention. Her lines were read from a teleprompter. The complete text is here on the RNC website. What is interesting is this line: WTF ?? NEW-CLEAR weapons ?? What does that mean ? Well, say it out loud and you'll...

I think this is a far more relevant question to answer than the threads we've seen these days about Palin's daughter, Obama's inexperience, Chelsea's looks and other non-items. When posting your answer, think about security, economics, place in the world, corruption, dealing with national...

What do you think ? Is drilling for more oil the best way to solve the long term energy problem ? Will drilling for more oil structurally make fuelprices lower ? Or both ? Or neither ?