Fed2 Star - the newsletter for the space trading game Federation 2

The weekly newsletter for Fed2
by ibgames

EARTHDATE: May 18, 2014

Fed2 Star Index

In this week’s Fed2 Star: another newsdroid holiday, the WayBack Machine shows the history Fed’s website, farmers’ electronics, claims for chocolate’s health properties smashed, extreme exercise causes heart problems, criminal blames computer game for armed robbery, spurious correlations, the work of H R Giger and a suit that shows you what it’s like to get old. Plus Alan’s technical column Winding Down.

Official News

Sunshine break for the newsdroids

Peering way back into Fed's past

Real life news: plough sensors into your field

Terrible real life news: chocolate not so good for you after all

Real life news: see, I told you exercise was bad for you!

Dumb criminal of the week: it wasn't my fault, blame Grand Theft Auto

On the web: spurious corrleations

Artist of the week: H R Giger (RIP)

Video of the week: the age simulation suit

Winding Down