California City is the 3rd largest city in California (geographically), home to California's largest open-pit boron mine , a privately-run Federal Prison , and only 8,835 residents. Originally planned as a "large master-planned leisure...
Topics: abandoned, aerial, california, ghosttown, housing, mine, nazca, prison, suburbia

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The Company of Myself is a poignant, puzzle-solving Flash platform-type game featuring some gameplay mechanics reminiscent of Braid . Each level furthers the game's tale of loneliness and alone-ness. [via JiG ]
Topics: braid, flash, game, jayisgames, platformer, puzzle, thecompanyofmyself

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Phil Agre, online pioneer that ran the Red Rock Eater News service (predating most blogs) has been missing for about a year . Former colleagues believe it could be a mental breakdown or a walkabout and they've begun a controlled search using social...
Topics: RRE

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Is the Catholic Church a force for good in the world? Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry debate the question with Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Anne Widdencombe. Parts 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Topics: bbc, catholics, hitchens

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Mefi's own Jason Scott ( jscott ) wants to raise $25,000 using waxy's Kickstarter to work full-time on computer history. He made BBS documentary ( previously ), founded the Archive Team , and owns textfiles.com ( previously ) and, yes, sockington.
Topics: bbs, bbsdocumentary, computers, fundraising, getlamp, history, jscott, kickstarter, sockington, textfilesdotcom

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