Just a quick post for those of you who are still young at heart or actually still young period. As I understand it, this year’s top playing chess player (year to date according to a chess column I read a couple of weeks ago) is a 17 year old from Norway named Magnus Carlsen. If that inspires you at all, you might be interested in WuChess.
WuChess is a new online chess + hip-hop community that will offer live game play, chat rooms, tournaments, lessons and exhibitions featuring RZA and special guests.
A 16 year old in Canada has isolated plastic eating microbes
And a new YA book out by Cory Doctorow called Little Brother sounds interesting. It is apparently made available by Doctorow under a creative commons non commercial attribution sharealike license.
So, if you can free up an extra bit of your social surplus time (isn’t your MySpace page already pimped enough?) you might check out some of these things.
Tags: chess, chess prodigy, Cory Doctorow, little brother, Magnus Carlsen, plastic eating microbes, Wu Tang Clan, WuChess, young adults, young at heart, youth
June 9, 2008 at 2:34 pm
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