SW City
News
The Real World – News that’s real, but under-reported.
A UFO plunges into a Russian harbor. Read the initial report and the followup.
There’s yet another 20 Dollar Bill on the horizon.
Scientists discover a cancer-proof mouse.
What do they feed those chickens over in Britain?
It seems that there is actually a historical record of ‘Manna’ from heaven.
Construction News
Here’s a brief update of what’s been build the last couple of weeks.
Hyokia Island Industry Sector:
-Ferruccio’s unnamed supercomputer – Serving SW City’s heavy duty computing needs.
-Plastico – Supplying the world with various plastic types. Huge factory!
-Ab1 Factory – Proud supplier of the ever popular ab1 texture.
-Hyokia Warehouse – Storage area for the local industries. Look for nougats ^_^
-Commiecorp Depot – Hovercraft servicing station.
-Paper cut Industries – Rival supplier of Yeti City’s paper products. New supplier of SW City Time’s newspaper.
-Gas-in-a-Can Fuel Cells – Supplying the world and powering crafts with high tech formula fuel cells.
-Bob’s Bottled Water Factory (aka Wacky Races 2) – A towering complex of pipes to navigate.
-Planetary Antenna #2 – A modernized attenna based off the classic near JR.
-Gryphon Hoverworks – The place to go for hovercraft upgrades and modifications.
Elsewhere:
-Syntax did some more work on his mighty mansion.
-Onilink is working on a big project called Payon over in Sybit.
-Ferruccio is building himself a big ol’ mansion next to Syntax’s.
News from the Folding Front
Team Scarabian Republic has now broken through 350th place! Currently we are at 347th, and have a grand score of 10228! That’s about 25% of the score of the team in 100th place. Great work guys! (I can say that because we have no female folders, heh heh)
And on a more personal note…Nitro Excell is evil because he keeps getting the überpoint-WUs and has now extended his lead over me to about 700 points >_< But I have another computer folding for me now >🙂
The Real World
A time traveler is being arrested for being too accurate in the stock market. $800 to $350 million in a couple weeks is pretty good luck =)
Looks like the US Army will be using laser weapons in 2010.
New bio-batteries are powered by organic matter, especially vodka.
Scientists have finished research on creating an artifical brain and are about to test it on rats.
SW City’s 4th Birthday Party
Thanks to everyone who came to our party. Hope to have an even larger crowd next year! 😉
Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday, our dear city! Happy Birthday to you! Yes it’s that time again. And registration for the building contests have already begun! Telegram Vornox to build your dream house, or telegram SW Comit to build a corporate giant of industry. You have until Saturday to complete your builds.
We will be having our events on Friday and Saturday of this week, beginning Friday at 6PM VRT. You can find a complete schedule of events here. Win points in these events towards a $15 credit for one item from the SW City Store.
Minor Website Updates
I added a little background onto the main body of all the pages. Hit F5 to refresh your screen to view the page normally, since some of the images at the top of the pages may still have a totally black background.
SW City 4th Birthday Bash
There hasn’t been a lot of news worth reporting lately, but preperations for our 4th anniverary have been rolling along. All but a couple events are ready to go ^_^
You can find the schedule at http://swcity.skywalkeronline.net/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=633
The 2 building contests open on the 24th, so if you want a particular lot and a lot of time to work on it, be sure to show up =)
Scarabian Republic in 400th place
Scarabian Republic’s awesome Folding@home ripped right through the 400’s and are entering the 300’s. Special thanks go out to Chris for installing up to 6 college computers under our name, and Cactus Jack for 4. Also another important step achieved: Yeti city joins in as Yeti himself hops onboard the folding train.
Team stats: http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=11309
If your interested in F@H just check the community board in the forums. We got 22 computers now. The team in 100th place has 32 O_O
Newsletters Page
The Newsletters Page has finally been updated all the way up to February 2003. That’s three new issues to read through. But if you want the newest ones on the first Monday of every month, then you’re going to have to subscribe. To do so, just drop me an e-mail with your citizen name and e-mail address.
A minor note for current subscribers: This month’s newsletter will be delayed slightly until we can get an SW Pick for March written up! 🙂
Poll at awnews.org
Head on over to awnews.org and vote in their current poll regarding Alphaworld update. Results will be sent to AWI. Here’s part of what Enzo had to say about it in the NGs:
“We will be putting something like this up as soon as we get a chance. It will be a simple “yes” “no” “undecided” selection which will be open to registered cits. Only your most recent vote will be counted in the totals.”
By the way, not much news the past couple of weeks. I decided not to post any real world news because we want to keep SW City news as a majority.
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