This is the official website for the free multiplayer first person shooter: Urban Terror. Unlike older versions, Urban Terror no longer requires you to have Quake3; anyone can download and play it for free. Urban Terror is available for windows, linux and macintosh. The current version of Urban Terror is 4.1. We are currently working on 4.2 (no release date yet).
Urban Terror could best be described as a Hollywood tactical shooter; it is realism based to a certain extent (environments/weapons/player models), but also goes by the motto "fun over realism" (fast gameplay and lots of action). This combination of reality and action results in a very unique, enjoyable and addictive game.
Earlier this week, I received some pushback after recommending an article from American Heritage which lamented:
The most disappointing realization about the war in Iraq is how little we care.
I think today's NYT statistics say something about where the public's mind is right now:
MOST POPULAR * E-Mailed 1. Good Girls Go Bad, for a Day
I'll offer you the first paragraph:
IN her thigh-highs and ruby miniskirt, Little Red Riding Hood does not appear to be en route to her grandmother’s house. And Goldilocks, in a snug bodice and platform heels, gives the impression she has been sleeping in everyone’s bed. There is a witch wearing little more than a Laker Girl uniform, a fairy who appears to shop at Victoria’s Secret and a cowgirl with a skirt the size of a tea towel.
You'll have to click through for the photos. (These costumes put that Tattoo Freak thing to shame ... They're talking more about the "Hot Hot Hot" category over at PartyCity, where you'll find such gems as "Corrections Officer", "Gold Digger", and "Mile High Captain".)
Treehouses in Paradise : Fantasy Designs for the 21st-Century
Topic: Recreation
3:15 pm EDT, Jun 3, 2006
In September 2000, urban designer and self-proclaimed anti-architect David Greenberg launched an international competition to solicit innovative, ecological treehouse designs for implementation as hotels at far-flung resorts in Hawaii, China, Vietnam, and Fiji. Nearly 500 architects responded. This book compiles the top 99 designs, chosen by an esteemed panel of judges. One look at the fantastic structures presented here makes it clear this isn't Swiss Family Robinson territory: These treehouses are pure flights of fancy, many of which would look right at home in a science fiction film, but many of which are also ecological and use indigenous materials. Floor plans, computer-generated renderings, elevation plans, and scale models appear with the wildly creative designs, along with descriptive essays by the architects, bringing these high-tech, low-cost structures to life, and giving readers a look into an environmentally-friendly architectural future that is all too present.
Fully revised and updated, the third edition of this celebrated Sierra Club Totebook is an information-packed guide to America's best-known national park--destination of more than four and a half million visitors annually.
Hiking the Grand Canyon provides detailed, authoritative descriptions of more than one hundred of the best trails--from easy, level day hikes along the Canyon's North and South Rims, to rigorous but rewarding rim-to-river and trans-canyon expeditions. Author and seasoned Grand Canyon adventurer John Annerino offers invaluable information to help visitors plan their trips, ensure their safety and comfort, and enhance their enjoyment of the Grand Canyon's natural wonders--including sage advice on hiking equipment and technique, clothing and food requirements, and map selection; vital information on water sources and on climate and weather; and tips on lodging and camping, as well as on how to book guided hiking, rafting, muleback and horseback trips, and climbing and caving expeditions. Also included are chapters on the park's natural history and geology and on its Native American history.
For adventurers familiar with the Canyon's many attractions and first-time visitors alike, this is the most "user friendly" and comprehensive guide available to one of our nation's premier natural wonders.
You can choose to have the seats automatically inflate for extra side bolstering when you go around corners. This feels as if someone in the backseat is jabbing you in the kidneys.
Among all the technology — including Night View Assist, a gee-whiz $1,150 option that lets you see in the dark beyond the headlamps' range — is one brilliant application: Distronic Plus.
Mr. Bennett teaches the "Hidden Pursuit" escape and evasion class to college seniors who have forgone the wet T-shirt contests and beer bongs of Cancun, Mexico, and Fort Lauderdale, for the chance to dodge simulated gunshots and cannon explosions at Mountain Shepherd Wilderness Survival School in Amherst, Va.
So-called survival and wilderness schools where students learn team-building and leadership skills through building fires and foraging for food have been around for decades, but Mr. Bennett's course is one of a handful of new offerings around the country that feature a more extreme kind of challenge. For fees that range from a few hundred dollars for a two-day class to a few thousand for adventures that can be four weeks long, those willing can pay to be pursued by make-believe assailants, survive hypothetical plane crashes and car accidents, and hunt down guerrillas.
This sounds remarkably like a terror training camp.
Do you think al-Qaeda could get away with setting up training camps in Western democracies, so long as they sell them as entertainment?
