 | Rugby League Vs American Football 0Rooster4Life0 presents a battle of two sports the NRL takes on The NFL which is the tougher , more skillful Sport ? You Decide. Rugby League:Rugby league football is a full-contact team sport played with a prolate spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field. Rugby league is one of the two major codes of rugby football, the other being rugby union. The league code is most prominent in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and France, where the sport is played professionally. Rugby league is also popular in Papua New Guinea where it is considered the national sport. The game is played to a lesser extent in several other countries, such as Russia, the United States and Lebanon. Rugby league takes its name from what was initially a breakaway faction of the English Rugby Football Union (RFU) known as the Northern Rugby Football Union when established in 1895. Both unions played rugby football under similar rules at first, until similar breakaway factions occurred from RFU-affiliated rugby unions in Australia and New Zealand in 1907 and 1908, and formed associations known as rugby football leagues, introducing modified Northern Union rules to create a new form of rugby football. The Northern Union later changed its name to the Rugby Football League in 1922 and thus, over time the sport itself became known as "rugby league". Over the following decades, the rules of both forms of rugby were gradually changed, and now rugby league and rugby union are distinctly different sports. American Football: American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football,[1] is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball[2] into the opposing team's end zone. The ball can be advanced by carrying it (a running play) or by throwing it to a teammate (a passing play). Points can be scored in a variety of ways, including carrying the ball over the goal line, catching a pass from beyond the goal line, tackling an opposing ball carrier in his own end zone, or kicking the ball through the goal posts on the opposing side. The winner is the team with the most points when time expires at the end of the last play. American football is also played outside the United States. National leagues exist in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, Mexico, Israel, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and several Pacific Island nations. The National Football League, the largest professional American football league in the world, ran a developmental league in Europe from 19911992 and 19952006. |
 | OpenSim versus Google Earth This is a random walk through a 40-region OpenSim standalone simulator. OpenSim was run on Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64, with OpenSim svn r5411. The latest Second Life client (1.20.15) was used, and captured with FRAPS. This clip is not intended to be very interesting, although for those who are working on their own OpenSim regions, it might be somewhat diagnostic of what happens with 40 regions and 2560 total prims runs on one dedicated public-facing server. (Let the LAG out) OK, seriously OpenSim does not have the rich smoothness of the Google Earth client. On the other hand, Second Life client does a much better job of enabling interior design--and this clip is a rush of today's first run through the UC Berkeley campus. Emphasis here is on 'rush' in the sense of unedited video roll, and "rush" as in getting through the sim faster than the textures could download from the server. The prolate spheroids are Second Life sculptie prims that have received their texture image but not yet their NURB bump-map. They rez into terrain- and tree-hugging form if one stays still long enough. |
 | Jonny's Goje Solo 3am. A dirty chicken shop on the North End Road. Jonny Bower rocks out. |
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