Chess

Chess Club Records

There’s an intriguing wee scene blossoming down in London around a little indie label called Chess Club Records. Toadfans may well have encountered them already as they’re home to the magnificient Mumford & Sons, who have been received favourably here at Toad HQ both live and on record. They also look after the affairs of one Justin Hayward-Young, who apparently [...]

Rally at the Capitol and Legal Actions?Two Moves of the Day--as California State Workers Don?t Want to Be Pawns in a Sch...

By Kyle Samia Reporter California Progress Report “The state of California is letting us down because of Arnold’s pawn game. I don’t even know how to play chess, but I find myself now to be a pawn,” said Celeste Knox as she gave personal testimony at the SEIU Local 1000 rally today on the West Steps of the Capitol. In what was perhaps the largest SEIU Local 1000 rally this season in response to the lacking budget, purple shirts were fully abound as SEIU Local 1000 filed two separate laws...

Monk: Mr. Monk and the Genius

Filed under: Monk, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free(S07E02) I really thought this was going to be a superb Monk. It had all the elements of a top notch cat and mouse affair, starting with guest star David Strathairn -- so brilliant in Good Night and Good Luck as Edward R. Murrow -- as a chess grand master, Patrick Kloster. The set up was elegant; Kloster's wife hires Monk to investigate her murder because she is certain her husband will follow through on his perfect plan to kill her. Within a day, ...

GameTap Thursday: Fallout, Battle Chess, Aveyond 2

Filed under: Mac, PC, Online All you need to know about this week's GameTap update is encapsulated in one word: Fallout. There, we've said our bit. No word yet when Fallout 2 will make it onto the smorgasbord. Fallout (Windows) - "A post nuclear role playing game." Aveyond 2 (Windows) - A relatively new RPG that looks like an old-school Squaresoft game. Battle Chess (Windows) - Play chess, but watch the pieces on the board beat the pixels out of each other. Oh, how we long for an HD remake of th...

Awards and Honors I: July 17, 2008

Kai Chen, PhD, research associate in the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, was awarded a third place Society of Nuclear Medicine Young Professionals Committee (YPC) Best Basic Science Award at the 2008 Annual Convention of the Society of Nuclear Medicine. Dr. Chen received his PhD in biophysics from Peking University in Beijing, China. Prior to coming to Stanford, he first served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and then at...

Yeah of course it's about the oil and that's all it's about

Watching Obama give his big Iraq speech today, I told myself a joke that got me laughing so hard, I couldn't stop. Maybe you'll enjoy it too. Imagine Obama looking into the camera saying "Fuck it, we all know why Bush and McCain want to stay in Iraq. All this talk about waiting for this or that to happen -- it's all bullshit, they know it, I know it, the press knows it, and if you think about it you know it too." We're not going to leave Iraq because if we did, it would become a province of Iran...

Chess meme

Your result for Which Chess Piece are You Test?... The Queen's Knight Congrats! Only 4-5% of the population score this! The Queen’s Knight is armed with rose-colored glasses. The mundane comes to life and nature becomes expressive of spirit. The interesting thing about this Knight is the ability to switch from fantasy to reality. There are exceptions to the rule, but this is the type that may have had imaginary friends as a youngster. Their stuffed animals also were great companions. The Queen...

Big Brother Countdown: One Day To Go!!!

Today's winner is TaxGirl! This pic represents the number one, a chess piece, and it is a phallic symbol. What could be more prefect? Thanks TG and congrats!! **Want to enter? Take a pic of the number 0 and shoot me mail at Flipit75@gmail.com

19 FEATURED DESIGN OF THE DAY: MIRROR TIC TAC TOE ....ASTIG TAC TOH!

ASTIG-TAC-TOH! Mirror Tic Tac Toe Let's face it: Tic Tac Toe is pretty lame. As definitively explained in WarGames, given a competent opponent, the game will always end in a tie. That kind of sucks, but at least if we played on this mirror board, we could make up for the lack of fun by admiring the cool design. Designed by Shahar Peleg, Mirror Tic Tac Toe cleverly supplies only half X's and O's to play with, which become "whole" once they're placed on the board, thanks to their reflections. It's...

Google's Lively 3-D chat: More than a 'Second Life' knockoff, if it wants to be

Interactive 3-D chat room created using Google's new Lively site by tech writer Mike Elgan. Google's new Lively offers virtual chatrooms on the Web, launched yesterday as a teenspace but perhaps born to host virtual meetings and small press conferences. It looks a bit like a small Second Life without all the shwag for sale. And it's on the Web, embeddable on your own site, rather than parallel to it as a separate, private world -- although you do have to download a small browser plugin to parti...