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‘Skulls of the Shogun’ Emerges as a Cross-Platform Gaming Pioneer

By Guest PostJanuary 30, 2013Technology17 bit, arcade inspired, christopher rubyor, classic, cloud, cross platform game, daunting, david, edgar in sarasota, game designer, ghost samurai warriors, goliath analogy, iowa city, logistical, lucy, magical animal monks, microsoft devices, modern, monumental task, mustachioed samurai generals, rod chang, samurai afterlife, samurai game, shogun, skulls, surface rt, technical challenges, turn based, windows 8, windows phone, windows phone store, xbox 360, xbox live arcade

Classic arcade-inspired samurai game “Skulls of the Shogun” is available today for download play on Xbox 360, Windows Phone and Windows 8. Delving into the afterlife of a famous general, this is Microsoft’s first modern cross-platform game.

REDMOND, Wash. – Jan. 30, 2013 — With the new game “Skulls of the Shogun,” players can do something new: Switch back and forth between all of their Microsoft devices as they bounce from battle scene to battle scene.

The game, released today, is the first to reach all Microsoft platforms. “Skulls of the Shogun” can be downloaded and played on Xbox 360 via the Xbox LIVE Arcade, and on Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 devices. (more…)

Killing of Bin Laden Offers Insight into “The Business of Martyrdom”

By Guest PostJuly 12, 2012Politicsal qaeda, bin laden, biotechnology, business of martyrdom, david, drone, goliath, history, Iraq, jeffrey lewis, killing, ltte, metaphor, muslim world, philosophy, political goal, smart bomb, sri lanka, suicide attack, suicide bomber, suicide bombing, Technology, terrorist leader, terrorist organization, united states, us military, uslim fighter

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The way the U.S. military killed Osama bin Laden sent a message every bit as powerful as the fact that he was killed in the first place, according to the author of a new history of suicide bombing.

The fact that bin Laden was killed by a team of highly trained soldiers – and not by a drone or bomb – spoiled the grand narrative of brave Muslim fighters vs. U.S. technology that bin Laden and al Qaeda had developed in their war against the United States.

“Bin Laden had built up this image of himself and al Qaeda as a morally superior David against the technological Goliath that is the United States,” said Jeffrey Lewis, a lecturer in the International Studies program at Ohio State University. (more…)

‘Facebook’

By ShamsFebruary 10, 2010Culture, Technologyadium, berg, david, Facebook, facebook engineer, facebook never sleeps, flickr, geocities, Harvard dormitory, ichat, instant messaging software, jabber, mafia, Mark Zuckerberg, Miranda, open messaging protocol, photo-sharing site, pidgin, Technology, xmpp, Yahoo, zucker

Flickr says that by Oct 12 2009, it uploaded 4 billion photos. Flickr was born in Ferbruay 2004.

Facebook says that it’s the largest photo-sharing site with over 2.5 billion photos uploaded to the site each month. Facebook was born in 2004 in Harvard dormitory, fathered by Mr. Mark Zuckerberg. 🙂

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‘Skulls of the Shogun’ Emerges as a Cross-Platform Gaming Pioneer

Killing of Bin Laden Offers Insight into “The Business of Martyrdom”

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