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Workers at a factory in Guangdong, unknowing of the product they were producing, are making “Free Tibet” flags to fulfill an order from outside China.

Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.

After seeing the flag of an exiled Tibet on news reports, several workers reportedly contacted the police of this affair. The factory manager was said to be oblivious to the meaning behind the flag.

Thousands of flags have already been packed for shipping, and an unknown amount have already been sent.

Ironic, isn’t it?

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Well, as new as pre-formatted templates can emulate.

The change was pretty self-explanatory and really needs no introduction. Personal preference, really - the new skin, dubbed Ambiru, gives a vibe I felt the old Kubrick couldn’t replicate.

Also an excuse to exercise a little photoshop action in designing a new banner.

Apologies for the lack of updates to this blog. Between balancing finals, move-out, and a slew of other distractions, I’ve been abhorrent from the daily management I usually conduct for the past few weeks. Case in point, my Google Reader filled close to 2000 unread feeds. I simply disappeared of the face of the web.

My current go-to time killer Team Fortress 2 isn’t helping either.

Distractions aside, hopefully I’ll begin to re-establish daily bloggings and my other daily rounds within the week.

As of now, I owe this site: 3 Moxious Mondays, 3 Daily Micspams, and a buttload of EMUs.

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According to a local news source, Florida teens believe Mountain Dew prevents unwanted pregancies, and drinking a capful of bleach or smoking marijuana can prevent the spread of HIV.

State lawmakers are blaming these myths on the state’s abstinence-only sexual education classes, and are seeking to append over the curriculum with more information about condoms, birth control, and disease prevention.

Personally, I think the whole issue is sensationalist and overblown. C’mon, no demographics? No interviews? For all I care, some run-of-the-mill middle schooler started this as a joke, the prank that remains hush-hush amongst the cliques in any normal teenage social ladder. But hey, now you know.

Here’s a neat little game to keep yourself occupied for… oh, about a minute. However, don’t use the brevity of You Have To Burn The Rope as a guideline for greatness - this gem is packed with narrative genius!

Slightly resemblant of the internet’s darling, Portal, You Have To Burn The Rope’s mechanics is simple to understand and uncluttered, and it is perhaps the simplicity (or my interest in minimalism) that really makes you appreciate the raw basics of gaming. The game makes a bold statement in a very aesthetic and easy to understand way, and in all rights, the flash plays out more like an interactive movie, complete with humorous credit music. In my opinion, Burn The Rope is really a testament against the rising complexity of graphics and narrative in gaming today, and is a great little quip to really make you appreciate the simplicities and bare essentials.

Oh, and here’s a fun little fact - Several sites have posted walkthroughs, in case you get stuck.

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In an update to the Fake Craigslist advertisement scam I posted about a week ago, the criminals behind the hoax that left a man stripped out of his possessions have been arrested by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. Amber and Brandon Herbert (pictured), 28 and 29 respectively, are facing charges of burglary and computer crime for their part in creating the Craigslist ad that led people to ransack the victim’s house. The crooks were traced by the police department through their IP address.

As for the motives:

The Herberts, investigators charge, did this to cover up their prior theft of several saddles and other items from the garage of the rural southern Oregon house.

In other words, the whole Craigslist scam was a cover-up for a past crime. It’s pretty perverse how low some people would go to cover their tracks as best they can. In the Herberts’ case, by trying to completely rub out the victim’s lifestyle and possessions. You’d figure stealing a few saddles was enough.

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Commissioned for Azmidiske at the Forums of Loathing.

The request was of her sexy red-headed, double sword wielding warrior, and seeing as how it has been close to a year since I’ve done anything too intensive, I was happy to oblige. Done in Photoshop.

Some discussion at the forums resulted in me writing a short summary of the techniques and workflow I used to finish this piece. One of the first, and probably the worst, mistake I made was the fact that I haphazardly merged all my black & white layers before starting on the color portion of the artwork. As a result, the piece took longer than I would have liked, due to the fact that I had to repaint many of the detailed areas and edges of the figure.

Hit the jump for the short tutorial guide I made in response to the painting, as well as some bonus links to the original black and white template I based the finished piece on, as well as a detailed look at the hair.

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