Way back in 1958 when I invented skateboarding for myself there simply were no girls on skateboards. Fast forward to today and girls are all over the sidewalks on skateboards.
Now it seems that these women are out numbering men as gamers.
The Entertainment Software Association has just released its 2014 report on the state of the video game industry
(PDF), and as the title of this post suggests, there have been some
significant shifts since the last report.
Let's tackle the most
interesting one first: Females have become the dominant gamer, claiming 52%
of the pie.
That's impressive, but perhaps more so is the fact that
women over the age of 18 represent 36% of the game-playing population,
whereas boys aged 18 and under claim a mere 17%.
Statistics like these
challenge the definition of "gamer." Some might say that it's a stretch
to call someone who only plays mobile games a "gamer" (Candy Crush anyone?). Mental hurdle aside, the reality is that anyone who plays games, regardless of the platform, is a gamer.
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Muslim
leader (and ISIS supporter) Anjem Choudary once said anyone who drinks
"should be given 40 lashes in public". He also tried getting these
pictures removed from the internet.
The
president of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority
country, has called the ISIS militants "embarrassing" to the religion
and urged Islamic leaders to unite in tackling extremism.
Iraqi TV host breaks down in tears speaking about Chistians in Iraq.
John 16:2
... in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.
With $2 billion in the bank — thanks to military victories in the past
few months — ISIS has become the most well-funded terrorist group in the world.
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Baby bear rescue
Surf Safe From Sharks
A 24 Hour Happy Video
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UCI in Irvine CA has one and most people don't know this.
Tucked away from major roadways and nestled amid more than 80 acres
of forest sits a massive warehouse-like building where inside, a device
that can produce temperatures hotter than the sun has sat cold and quiet
for more than two years.
But the wait is almost over for the nuclear
fusion reactor to get back up and running
at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
"We're very excited and
we're all anxious to turn that machine back on," said Adam Cohen, deputy
director for operations at PPPL.
The National Spherical Torus
Experiment (NSTX) has been shut down since 2012 as it underwent a $94
million upgrade that will make it what officials say will be the most
powerful fusion facility of its kind in the world.
It is expected to be
ready for operations in late winter or early spring, Cohen said.
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Peer-to-peer lodging service Airbnb has agreed to hand over data on 124 of its hosts in New York as part of an investigation by the state's Attorney General into the operation of illegal hotels.
The AG first requested data for almost all of Airbnb's hosts in the
state, but after "legal wrangling," that number was whittled down to the
current 124.
The data in question will be unredacted personal
information, meaning names and addresses.
In a blog post, Airbnb's David
Hantman said, "nothing about these hosting profiles suggests [the
Attorney General] is after anyone but individuals who may be flagrantly misusing our platform."
Airbnb is confident that the targets of this request are hosts
considered to be "bad actors," but they don't explain what classifies
somebody as a "bad actor."
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You hate your cell phone. Now you will really hate your cell phone.
Meghalaya: The Wettest Place on Earth
Burning Man Starts Today!
Burning Work
Burning Man is an annual festival that began in 1986. Tens of thousands
of people gather at the 'Playa' in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to create a
temporary wooden city dedicated to community, art, self-expression and
self-reliance. They depart a week later, leaving no trace whatsoever.
Let it burn!
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