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Google Visual Assets Guidelines
Logos and trademarks seem to be extremely specific to the company that makes them. The simplicity of icons somehow makes it look even better. Although it makes me wonder what people can really do with this. If someone were to change this only slightly it could look very visually similar yet it would no abide to the guidelines. Would Google be able to sue them? It's technically not their own product, because it is different. Yet in this world it's quite hard to have unique ideas because of how many people there are in this world constantly spewing new ideas. It's like a race to the top.
The Alphabet
It seems that all original alphabets started off as pictures on the page to describe what was being seen. Although it's quite weird how we actually produced an alphabet. If you look at Chinese or Korean or Japanese, their written language is quite different. Each word consists of one or more characters that all stem from pictures of the objects. There is no alphabet structure in their languages.
Etruscan Tombs
These tombs are quite interesting, it's similar to some sort of world wonder except for that fact that it's not that largely publicized. For these tombs to be built over such a long period of time makes people wonder how they kept it up for so long, and weather or not they are truly related to each other. It could be a massive coincidence that multiple similar cultures set their burial grounds in these areas and all committed to some sort of games.

http://www.palantir.com/
There is a nice theme going on here, the cause can make most people want to help. The website gives off a professionally simplistic look. This will help people not feel overwhelmed and easily navigate the site. On the main page there's a nice news feed which should be crucial to sites like these. It also has a nice user interface design, also very simplistic. Sometime simple is the best way to go.
Technology
This brings a good point about how technology can benefit and harm. Although this seems obvious, the technology to hunt down criminals can be used unintentionally to harm innocent civilians. The thing is that there are no rules on the internet. The internet is too new to have based laws to protect people on the internet. Right now there's only surveillance but there is no protection against criminals.
Toy Decapitation
Somehow I ended up here at this gruesome tale. I guess it relates to technological harm, although not exactly in the way I thought about it. It kind of shows that people need to take risks to do things they love to do, yet those risks can lead to serious disasters even if all safety precautions are looked into.
RC Helicopters
Personally I had no idea that these toy helicopters had this much professional qualities around them. I had known that some of the high end toy helicopters included a nitro type thing, yet I didn't know there were so many developed tricks to flying them and maneuvering them. From the previous article the man seems to be an expert in this field and when looking at these maneuvers they seem very difficult to pull off or illogical.

11 Tips
This site doesn't provide any negatives about crowd funding, although to be honest maybe there are no negatives. I would find that hard to believe though because of the fact that almost everything will have a negative side to it.Sometimes it just takes time to find out what exactly that is. This site also doesn't provide many details into how exactly money funding works and how the sites that host the crowd funding actually make money.
http://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370539807423#.UjSJ-sakq18
SEC seems to have a hard job. They have to deal with these types of things everyday. I guess that's what the government is for in America, I suppose that communist or authoritarian governments would have much less trouble because of total control over everything.

KickStarter
Kickstarter has a really nice site. Everything is nice a modern looking with easy readable stats on recent projects and popular ones before you even need to click them. This could incite people to support something if it looks really good or really popular. I've heard of Kickstarter numerous times before where independent companies advertise brand new games or products. The scale of the difference of these products is immense.
Planetary Annihilation
This game seems to have been extremely popular among everyone. This indie game was created by such a small tiny company that only started recently. It's amazing what kind of ideas people can take and morph into something so amazing that everyone wants it. I guess this is the point of original ideas now. Taking a preset concept and warping until it's different enough to be called unique.
http://lukeplunkett.kinja.com/
It's someone else blog, he appears to be a gaming commentator and something like that. He talks a lot about games and stuff. Although even though it's just gaming he seems very serious and he even talks about the small parts of gaming. I guess that makes him an expert right? He talks about good soundtracks about computer parts and stuff like that
Arma III
This game has recently revived some really big popularity. The Arma series seems quite nice, it's made to be a sort of super realistic. This one seems to be really over the top. The creators of Arma 3 had gotten arrested for espionage on another government while working on the Arma 3 game. They needed reference images of a military base for their newest release. The graphical quality of this game just becomes ridiculous at this point.