Chrome Users: Try the WordPress.com Extension

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Want to receive WordPress.com notifications instantly, even when you’re not on WordPress.com? Add the new WordPress.com extension for Chrome and as soon as you get a new follower or a new like on one of your posts, a notification will appear in your browser: Simply click the icon to view your latest WordPress.com notifications: Start following new blogs without visiting WordPress.com The Chrome extension also makes it easy to follow sites from your WordPress.com account by displaying a Follow button …

Been using it for a while now, and I’m loving it!

Back to the Future — But, like… not.

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So, I’m in a video game gallery show in Chicago in February, and thought I would post a few concepts I’m working on… starting with a Halo / Super Mario Bros Mash-up.  SMB is —shockingly— the fist/oldest video game I can remember playing, back on the ol’ NES.  Halo, is for all intents and purposes the “newest” game I play.  And look!  I’ve mashed them up! The next idea is a full blown, almost comic style Mario going all “Mission Impossible” on us.  This is the first of several ideas that center …

Magnificent Animals: Why Sharks are Good for the Ocean and For Us

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Dovi Kacev grew up in South Africa and San Diego. A longtime La Jolla surfer, Dovi is finishing up a joint SDSU-UC-Davis Ph.D. in Ecology. For the past 11 years he has carried out research on shark ecology and conservation which has allowed him to study sharks in the wild in San Diego, Baja California, and the Caribbean. Serge Dedina: As a surfer who grew up in South Africa where there are a lot of sharks, why did you choose to make your life’s work the study of the ocean’s apex predators? Dovi Kacev: From …

I’ve always been as fascinated by sharks as I am terrified. I might or might not have recently committed to do a shark cage dive with Matt and other members of our team during a future meetup. :)