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Zombie Survival Tips for Parents
Zombie Combat Club has an article up that gives solid advice on how we parents can keep our offspring alive when the zombie hordes arrive. The first of a two part series tackles the ever important issue of transporting your...
10.31.08 -
Provisional Ballots Could Decide Election This Year
Provisional ballots, ballots that voters are given when their registration and eligibility to vote is questioned, could be this year's dangling chad, say election experts. And crucial battleground state Ohio, where voters cast more provisional ballots than almost any other state, could be the hot...
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Concept Specs Add 50º to Your Angle of View
As a cyclist, peripheral vision is your friend. Honed by evolution to spot danger at the edge of vision, the rod sensors at the sides of the human eye are particularly adept at detecting movement. Try it: much like using...
10.31.08 -
Five for Fighting 10/31/08
* How's Al Qaeda weathering the financial crisis? * Air Force's mini-drone lab * Shuttle = space weapon? * Pak terrorists' drone counterstrike * Recon robots go to jail
10.31.08 -
Nine Cell Netbook Batteries Showing Up in the Wild
Netbook battery life sucks. An MSI Wind with the standard three-cell battery (and a non-standard OS X install) will give you a pathetic 2 hours of freedom from the wall-wart, and that's if you take things easy. The six cell,...
10.31.08 -
Now Official: No One In Tech Can Defend McCain
There is apparently not a single prominent person who supports John McCain’s technology policies and is confident enough to go out there and debate in favor of them. As readers of this blog know, after publishing the Wired Scorecard a...
10.31.08 -
Top 5 Scary Movies You (Probably) Haven't Seen
It's Halloween -- a time of year when "Scariest Movie" lists haunt the internet like so many kernels of uneaten Candy Corn. But, you've seen The Exorcist, The Shining, Halloween and Rosemary's Baby. So, Wired.com decided to offer up a...
10.31.08 -
YouTuber Animates Wells' War of the Worlds
An ambitious, meticulous YouTube user offers sci-fi fans a cool, homemade way to enjoy H.G. Wells' classic War of the Worlds. Following up on the Orson Welles piece by our own Jenna Wortham, an amateur animator and filmmaker ("aonl") uses...
10.31.08 -
Cosmos explicitly fractal
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14200-galaxy-map-hints-at-fractal-universe.html?feedId=online-news_rss20 (((Old news here, but that's an interesting universe. WHY is it "fractal"?))) Link: Galaxy map hints at fractal universe - space - 25 June 2008 - New Scientist Space. roup together to form galaxies, galaxies clump together to form...
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Missiles Away! An Interview With The Dears
From Logan's Run to Star Trek and onward to dystopian videos from his own band The Dears, Murray Lightburn is a sci-fi freak with a neuromantic streak. And while his postmodern soul and blues may skew too confessional to dispassionate...
10.30.08
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Lost Skeleton Crew Returns for Cadavra Sequel
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra won over B-movie fans with its spot-on parody of '50s creature features. Now the 2001 indie comedy has spawned a sequel, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, that once again turns an affectionate eye on early...
10.30.08 -
Laptop Fires Prompt Sony Battery Recall — Again
Some companies never change. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling about 35,000 laptop batteries from Sony, after several reports of fires. Nineteen consumers have reported the batteries overheating; of that group, 17 reported flames, and two suffered minor...
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Voter in Eighth Texas County Reports Vote Flipping on ES&S; Machine
Add Bexar County to the growing list of Texas counties where voters say they are having trouble with touch-screen machines flipping their votes. A computer security expert who works for the federal government said that his ES&S; iVotronic paperless touch-screen machine in San Antonio flipped...
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Video: Wingsuit Cliff-Jumpers Take Off
This is either the stupidest or the coolest thing someone could ever do. Or possibly a combination of both.
10.30.08 -
The VC Firm Death Pool
It's not just entrepreneurs and startup employees who are panicked about the downturn -- the deep-pocketed money men are just as nervous. Venture capitalists may put on a happy face and claim that they're still investing in good businesses, but...
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Stock Ticker Jack o' Lantern Will Scare, Depress Grown-Ups
The kids won't understand why Evil Mad Scientist's jack 'o lantern is terrifying until they grow older. The mini pumpkin contains a scrolling LED stock ticker to remind adults that while they sip booze and hit bongs this joyous holiday,...
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ICANN Targeting Notorious Domain Name Seller
The net's authority over domain names is set to pull the plug on an Estonia-based seller of domain names that security researchers say has been a refuge for cyber-criminals for years. ICANN told the EstDomains on Tuesday that it was revoking its accreditation since it...
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Review: Zack and Miri Scores With Funny Porno Farce
With a name like Zack and Miri Make a Porno, you've gotta figure Kevin Smith's latest movie is going to offend some members of the movie-going public. Undeniably raunchy, the R-rated film, which stirred controversy with its stick-figure advertisements before...
10.30.08 -
Hubble Back to Taking Spectacular Images
The Hubble Space Telescope sent this spectacular image back to Earth to celebrate coming back online after nearly a month of down time following a mechanical breakdown. After a rocky start, Hubble's on-board back-up camera got up and running last...
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Retrial Date Set in RIAA v. Thomas
A federal judge tentatively has set (.pdf) a March 9 retrial date in the Jammie Thomas music file sharing case. Of about 30,000 cases the Recording Industry Association of America has lodged against peer-to-peer users, the Thomas case was the first and only one to...
10.30.08
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Colorado Agrees to Allow Purged Voters to Vote
Colorado's secretary of state has reached an agreement to allow some 20,000 voters recently purged from the state's voter registration database to still cast ballots. Secretary of State Mike Coffman was sued by Common Cause of Colorado and two other groups who claimed the state...
10.30.08 -
Does Embedding with the Taliban Make You a Traitor? (Updated)
Two weeks ago, Rolling Stone published the most detailed Western account to date from within the Taliban insurgency. Now, a fighting has erupted in military circles over the story, "How We Lost the War We Won." Is journalist Nir Rosen...
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Marvel's Black Panther Is Headed for Sex Change
Believe it or not, Marvel Comics' superhero Black Panther bears little relation to the militant political group with whom he shares a name. And here's another news flash for you comics nuts: Black Panther isn't a man either. At least...
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Black Sheep Revises 'Choice' for 2008 Election
Black Sheep's "The Choice is Yours" was one of hip-hop's great party tunes, dropping in 1991 in the full swing of the genre's Golden Age. Better yet, the tune was a tongue-twisting boast designed to offer listeners a choice between...
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Report: Activision 'Blocking' Brutal Legend Release
Wondering why we haven't heard of a publishing deal yet for Brutal Legend? According to one report, Activision Blizzard is to blame. Variety reporter Ben Fritz says that sources at Double Fine, the developer of Psychonauts and the awesome rock-flavored...
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Hot Topic's ShockHound Tears Into Online Music
It may be a mallrat paradise of punk and pop culture, but Hot Topic can smell the future of music coming just fine, thanks. So it has decided to embrace it with an online music social called ShockHound.com, which offers...
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Electronic Arts Joins Layoff Club; Provides Sad Outlook
Electronic Arts is cautious on its short-term business prospects and plans to let go of 6 percent of its workforce as a result of dismal economic and retail outlook --and despite a 40 percent increase in second-quarter sales. The company...
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Software Enables Cameras to Duplicate Keys
A photograph of your apartment key is enough to enable someone to unlock your door, thanks to a new technology developed by computer scientists at UC San Diego. Led by computer science professor Stefan Savage, a group of students devised...
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Hands On: Xbox Community Games Are Way Better Than You Think
SAN FRANCISCO -- It's time to start getting very excited about the upcoming launch of the Community Games section of Xbox Live. Microsoft's push to create the user-generated "YouTube of Games" has always been a great idea in theory --...
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Xbox Community Games, As Low As 60 Cents?
Microsoft's launch next month of the "New Xbox Experience" is also bringing with it access to Community Games, and the home-brewed games could be even cheaper than originally expected. In Joystiq's video preview of the Community Games section of the...
10.30.08
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Mr. Rogers Has a Voting Machine Mishap
Tired of electronic voting machines and all of the new problems they've created? Take a nostalgic trip back to 1974 as Mr. Rogers demonstrates how to cast a ballot on a 30-year-old mechanical lever voting machine and experiences a little glitch. Mr. Rogers, for all...
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LED Light Installation Evokes Circuit Board Design
Inspired by printed circuit boards, the building block of all electronics, a Dutch designer has created an LED-based light installation that draws upon the familiar etching pattern inside most devices. Created by Lonneke Gordijn, co-founder of the Netherlands based design...
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Atari Announces Chronicles of Riddick Sequel
Atari is slated to publish The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in Spring 2009. Dark Athena is a follow-up to The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, a game...
10.30.08 -
Hard Times? Not for iPhone Developers
Job seekers struggling to land gigs during the economic downturn are going to wish they had iPhone programming skills. The demand for iPhone developers worldwide has grown 500 percent in the past six months, according to oDesk, an outsourcing firm...
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Joe The Plumber Ponders Major Label Deal
Samuel Wurzelbacher, the unlicensed plumbing technician commonly referred to as "Joe The Plumber," has his eye on the recording studio. After being approached with several entertainment offers, Wurzelbacher joined forces with public relations company The Press Office and booking/management firm...
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Bethesda Wants Elder Scrolls 5 in 2010
The next entry in the Elder Scrolls RPG series should come out in 2010, according to Bethesda's Paul Oughton. "At the moment we've got Fallout 3 for this year and potentially there's a new Elder Scrolls title in 2010," Oughton...
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Destiny Links: Another 4-Player, Co-Op DS RPG
Namco Bandai is readying a new action RPG title for the Nintendo DS called Destiny Links, set to come out in Japan this winter. Destiny Links includes the new de facto standard of all portable RPG titles in Japan: four-player...
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Atlus Teases New Persona For DS
Atlus is teasing a new Nintendo DS title in Famitsu, with a two-page ad that promises more details in next week's issue, out November 7. All we know for now is that the game is called Megami Ibunroku Devil Survivor,...
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Best Way to Sell a Movie: Pretend Like It's Dirty
Kevin Smith must be the most genius marketer on earth. His new $25 million movie got a 700-word story in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, the day before its release. It was probably the most effective advertising a guy...
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Girly Fashions on the DS Top Japan Sales
TOKYO -- Never underestimate the power of fashion in Japan. The Nintendo-published Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode -- "wagamama" translates as "selfish" -- for the Nintendo DS tops this week's top 10 best-selling games. Girls Mode puts you in the role...
10.30.08
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Mirror's Edge Demo Jumps to Your Console
Time to get your parkour on: a demo for first-person jumper Mirror's Edge shows up today on the PlayStation Network, and tomorrow on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo will include a story intro, a tutorial stage, and section of...
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Dead Space: Downfall Hits TV This Sunday
Dead Space: Downfall, the animated film tie-in for Electronic Arts' new survival horror series is coming to television on Sunday, November 2. The film premieres on premium channel Starz Action at 10 PM Eastern and Pacific time. It also saw...
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DDoS Attack Strikes Campaigns Against Same-Sex Marriage Bans - Update
Websites of political groups fighting anti-gay marriage amendments were hit by a flood of fake traffic Wednesday, in an apparent attempt to muzzle the sites and interfere with a fundraising effort, California's No on Prop 8 group said Thursday. The Secret Service is now investigating...
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R.I.P. @MarsPhoenix: The Twitter Epitaph Contest
Mars Phoenix, NASA's immensely successful robotic lander, is on her its last legs. Two days ago, with winter already threatening to coat the lander in carbon dioxide, an ill-timed dust storm sent Mars Phoenix into hibernation as the solar energy...
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GTA IV PC Delayed, System Requirements Revealed
The PC iteration of Grand Theft Auto IV has been delayed. The game will now see retail shelves on December 2, reports IGN. Alongside this sad news, Rockstar Games also revealed the minimum and recommended system requirements for the game....
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Reduced Charges for Guns N' Roses Uploader, Deal 'in the Offing'
Federal authorities said Thursday they are reducing the criminal charges levied against Kevin Cogill, the Los Angeles man accused of uploading nine pre-released Guns N' Roses tracks from the aging band's upcoming Chinese Democracy album. Los Angeles federal prosecutor Craig Missakian declined to say why...
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Groups Warn Election Officials About Diebold Voting Machine Flaw
Several election watch dog groups have sent an advisory to election officials warning them about a problem with Premier Election Solutions' vote tabulating software that could cause the system to lose votes. Premier (formerly called Diebold Election Systems) disclosed the problem in August after officials...
10.30.08 -
Quit kissing James Bond, you Ukrainian traitress
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/10140 Link: New Bond girl: A traitor to the Soviet Union | FP Passport. "In the name of all communists we appeal to you, Olga Kurylenko, wanton daughter of unclean Ukraine and deserter of the Slavic world. The Soviet Union...
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Sam Mendes to Direct Graphic Preacher
Director Sam Mendes has been hired by Columbia Pictures to make a movie based on Preacher, the hyperviolent comic book by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon. Published by DC Comics' mature Vertigo imprint, Preacher lays out a rough-edged...
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Delta and Northwest Become One. What it Means for You.
If bigger is better, then Delta Airlines is about as good as it gets. Yesterday the Department of Justice approved the airline's $2.6 billion merger with Northwest Airlines, creating an aviation giant with over 800 mainline planes, service to 375...
10.30.08
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James Howard Kunstler's ever-lengthening moment in the sun
(((I have to admire the sober dignity and restraint with which this longtime prophet of Everything Falling Apart is watching everything falling apart. There could be a lot of self-indulgent finger-wagging and told-ya-so here, but he's not wasting any energy...
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Hurricanes May Not Be Bigger and Badder in the Future After All
The Atlantic and Gulf hurricane coasts may get a reprieve from the prognosis that climate change will spawn increasingly bigger, more powerful and more frequent hurricanes. Previous research has linked rising sea surface temperatures with the increase in hurricane activity...
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Beatles' Label 'Working Out the Details' for Online Music Sales
Apple Corps and MTV/Harmonix announced on Thursday that a Beatles videogame modeled on the Rock Band franchise will go on sale late next year, but its music is still not available on iTunes and other stores. However, Apple Corps CEO...
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Oct. 30, 1938: 'War of the Worlds' Induces Panic
Long before Ashton Kutcher began punking celebrities, a talented young actor with a wicked sense of humor pulled off one of the biggest pranks in American history. Thursday marks the 70th anniversary of Orson Welles' legendary radio broadcast of "The...
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Waterproof MP3 Players Won't Make You Swim Like Phelps
Waterproof Mp3 players are niche gadgets, but for the genetic freaks that spend all their hours turning laps in the pool practicing, they may offer welcome relief from the monotony. Freestyle Audio's newest MP3 player, the Soundwave, is only the...
10.30.08 -
Motorola: No Android Handset Before Christmas 2009
It's going to get a lot worse for Motorola before it gets better. Slipping into a loss this quarter, the company said its first Android-based smartphone won't be on the market until the holiday season -- in 2009. The bet...
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Military Investigates Amnesia Beams
A team of scientists from the United States and China announced last week that, for the first time, they had found a means of selectively and safely erasing memories in mice, using the signaling molecule αCaMKII. It's a big step...
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Video Podcast No. 9: The Agroterror Lab Just Off Long Island
For 50 years, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center has researched dangerous pathogens like foot-and-mouth disease on a small island off the tip of Long Island. Founded by the Army in the 1950s and run by the U.S. Department of...
10.30.08 -
Web Semantics: NameThis
Link: NameThis :: projects. namethis makes the otherwise time-consuming process of finding a market-ready name quick and painless. Why spend time and money gambling on the ideas of a few, when you can have the market bounce ideas off of...
10.30.08 -
Manufacture Via Google
http://www.fabbaloo.com/2008/10/print-your-sketchup-objects.html Link: Fabbaloo: Print Your Sketchup Objects. Google Sketchup, by far the most popular 3D modeling tool in the known universe, now has a great way to send your Sketchup model to a 3D printer. Simply install the new plugin...
10.30.08
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iPhone Apps Are a Trojan Horse for Music Pricing
Steve Jobs' dogmatic "one price fits all" for music sold at the iTunes store faces an unlikely challenge -- from Apple itself. Jobs has held firm to his 99-cents-per-song rate with one brief exception despite pressure from the major labels...
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Voters Who Registered But Received No Confirmation Should Still Vote
With the unprecedented numbers of citizens registering to vote for the first time in this election, states and counties have fallen behind in processing registration applications. But even if you haven't received confirmation from your election office, or aren't on the registration list at the...
10.30.08 -
Otzi, whacked in the face with a club
(((Readers of my futurist tome TOMORROW NOW know that I am quite the Otzi devotee -- but whacked in the face with a mace? This is the first I ever heard of that misfortune.))) (((And we're not descendants of his....
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Activision Releases Guitar Hero World Tour Drum Tuning Kit
A few days ago we told you about Guitar Hero World Tour's flawed drums, and Activision's plan to fix them. Only a day later, the publisher released the official Drum Tuning Kit for GHWT which they hope will fix any...
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Which Songs Do You Want to Play in the Beatles Game?
MTV/Harmonix's upcoming Beatles version of the Rock Band interactive music game will let people play Beatles songs in a Rock Band-like game with "new dimensions" that haven't been seen in any previous music videogame. In June, Listening Post readers weighed...
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Freemium Services Coming to a Website Near You
As ad dollars dry up in the shrinking economy, websites placing their hopes for profitability on advertising schemes have reason to be worried. One way out of the ad crunch? Charging users for premium content. Many popular online services —...
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John Carmack's Aerospace Firm Reveals 'Fishbowl'
Between Richard Garriott's recent extraterrestrial flight and the work going on at Armadillo Aerospace (a firm founded by id Software master coder John Carmack, it seems that space tourism is the hyper-rich geek's version of rebuilding a '67 Impala in...
10.30.08 -
GeekDad Pumpkin Contest - Deadline Extended!
In the behind-the-scenes, highly-secretive inner workings of the GeekDad contributors, we have decided to extend our Pumpkin Contest. Why? Well, because we realized (epic facepalm) a lot of people wait until the last minute to carve, so their pumpkins don't...
10.30.08 -
8 Things to Expect in the Next iPhone Update
One of the great things about the iPhone is the regular software updates. Free and automatic improvements are piped, hot and steaming, to your pocket computer. We don't know exactly when the next version of the iPhone operating system (v2.2)...
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Sizing Up the Finalists in Pentagon Truck Contest
Watching the military's new Humvee-replacement contest is kinda like following a season of Top Chef: They start with a bunch of hopefuls, then narrow the competition to three lucky finalists. Yesterday, three teams made it to the finale: BAE Systems...
10.30.08
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Geekiest Way to Carve a Pumpkin: 3-D Scanning and a Robot
Saw this over at Make and had to pass it on to all of you. Now I've used power tools on my pumpkins in the past, but this is taking it to the limit! He took a photograph, used special...
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Les Moonves: What, Me Worry About 2009?
There are a lot of things that keep Les Moonves up at night, but worrying about ad revenue in 2009 isn't one of them, CBS' chief executive told investors today during the company's third quarter earnings call. "We do not...
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Cuban Calling B.S. on Bailout
Mark Cuban's latest "work in progress" is BailoutSleuth, a site dedicated to closely monitoring the bailout process for signs of fraud or other nefariousness. Cuban and Chris Carey, the editor for the Cuban-backed ShareSleuth.com, a lackluster site that calls out...
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Beatles Version of Rock Band to Offer Unprecedented Gameplay
A Beatles-branded interactive music game along the lines of Rock Band and Guitar Hero will give gamers and music lovers a chance to play songs from every stage of the Beatles' storied career, from the sweet simplicity of "Please, Please...
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Anything for Heavy Metal
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/2008-10-29-iraq-heavy-metal_N.htm Nothing else matters: Iraqi heavy metal returns By Charles Levinson, USA TODAY BAGHDAD — At a private dinner club on the banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad, Muthana Mani screamed threats at a wild-eyed crowd of young Iraqis....
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$6 Billion on Iraq Mercs is Just the Start
An interesting tidbit is buried in the latest report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, released today: Since 2003, the U.S. has spent at least $6 billion for the services of over 300 private security firms. The audit,...
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Is There a Doctor in the House? David Tennant Quits Doctor Who
This is truly a sad day for Who-heads the world over. It was just announced that David Tennant, the incredibly popular tenth Doctor, will leave the series after four special episodes to be broadcast next year. Upon receiving a National...
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Humane Mousetrap Imprisons Rodent in Pint Glass
The intricate workings of Thorsten van Elten's non-lethal mousetrap are neatly summed up in its name: "Mouse in a Pint". It works thus: pop a breadstick (supplied) into the spring and use it to prop up the pint glass (the...
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Open Sourced Game Boy Has Hackers Drooling
An unnamed Open Source hardware enthusiast has hacked together his own personal version of Nintendo's super-popular Game Boy handheld, complete with exposed silicon boards and a pretty solid looking analog stick. As per usual with these Do It Yourself projects,...
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"You Let Our Kids Watch What!?" Halloween Preview Edition
Like any good GeekParent, I like to share my favorite TV and movies with my kids -- forgetting that a lot of what I watched as a teen was "edited for television" ... and that 12-year-old girls are "older" than...
10.30.08
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Digital Socket-Set Gives Nuts the Finger
No, not that kind of digital. Here we're talking about fingers, and some plastic wraparound spanners to strap to them. The mini wrenches attach with (presumably removable) cable-tie style ratcheted strips. It seems like a good idea, especially for low-torque...
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Live Blog: Beatles, Rock Band Makers Team For New Game
The makers of Rock Band are producing an all-new videogame based on the music of the Beatles, MTV and Apple Corps said today. A few key details about the game were revealed in a conference call Thursday morning: The game...
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Five for Fighting 10/30/08
* Iran: We're making new fighter jets * Chalabi slithering back to power in Baghdad * Taliban talks in the works? * Ships' crews fight off pirate attacks * Mega-yacht, corvette, or both? (High five: PJB, BD, EM)
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Study: iPhone Users Not All High Earning Tech Geeks
Only one percent of cellphone users have an iPhone, and while it may seem like most iPhone owners are just dropping disposable income on the latest tech gadget (present company excluded, of course), that is changing rapidly. The fastest growing...
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Apple Corp., MTV Announcing Beatles, Rock Band Deal
The Beatles, notorious holdouts against selling music on iTunes and other online music stores, appear to have found a digital deal they like: licensing their songs to the Rock Band videogame. "Apple Corps Ltd. and MTV to announce an exclusive...
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Walled Garden No More, AOL Adds Social Networks to Homepage
AOL has added access to several social networks and an RSS reader to its homepage as part of a major overhaul that kicked off last month to open up its site to outside services. Users can now log into Facebook,...
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Wal-Mart to Sell Cheap Googlephone, Outrage Ensues
Retail giant Wal-Mart will sell the T-Mobile G1 for $150 -- $30 less than you will pay in a T-Mobile store. You'll still need to sign up for a two year contract, but thirty bucks is thirty bucks, right? Predictably,...
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Steam Powered, The California Steampunk Convention
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/10.29.08/cover-steampunk-0844.html (((Steamy, steamy, California steampunk. I always enjoy these little insights into the everyday lives of secret masters of steampunk fandom.))) Link: Music & Nightlife in Sunnyvale, CA | Steam Powered, The California Steampunk Convention . "This is the first...
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CBS Posts $14 Billion Write-Down, Modest Digital Gains
CBS' reported a third quarter loss of $12.5 billion today, due to a $14 billion write-down and declining ad revenue in its television, radio and outdoor divisions. Digital revenue is still a small portion of the company's overall income, but...
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No Money in Silicon Valley
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/10/vc-warns-some-s.html#more (((So, uhm, tech investors are too frightened to put money into tech companies? Where do they think they can keep it? I hope they didn't buy crude oil with it, because then they REALLY lose their shirts.))) (((Is there...
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10 Geeky Movies That Should've Been Terrible, but Weren't
Ever heard about a movie and thought it sounded terrible, but then when it came out it turned out to be pretty good, or even great? Back in August, fellow GeekDad Ken Denmead listed ten geeky movies that should've been...
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Griffin iTalk: Free Voice Recording for iPhone
Griffin has added a free (ad supported) voice recording application to the iTunes App Store. The iTalk Recorder will run on any iPhone or the 2G iPod Touch (with the optional Apple Stereo Headset). ITalk joins many other recording apps...
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Lens Coat Hoodies: Take Your Camera Home in a BodyBag
For an Englishman, the word "hoodie" causes a cold, foreboding shiver to course through his weak, sun-deprived body. The hooded sweatshirt is the officially recognised uniform of the dangerous gangs of youths who wander the faux-marble atriums of the nation's...
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Laundry Hamper + Creativity = R2-D2
OK, I confess I was skeptical when the idea was first floated. But Halloween is one the geekmom's favorite holidays in our house and I held my tongue, because I knew deep down she would pull it off. And she's...
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an industry entrenched in a ditch carved into paper.
http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2008/10/28/big-book-news-from-google/ Link: Big book news from Google | Everything is Miscellaneous. "Google has reached a settlement agreement in the lawsuit brought by publishers who were afraid that awareness of the existence of the publishers’ books might leak out onto the...
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Screenism
Sarasota Design Summit, Sarasota, Florida Originally uploaded by moleitau "These people are screenist."
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Bat Senses Could Help Mini-Drones in Urban Combat
As if fake cat brains and robotic pack mules weren't enough. Military-funded researchers are getting to show off detectors that could let tiny drones that sense their surroundings like bats. The Pentagon's brains would like to see swarms of tiny...
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Cybercrime wave sweeping Britain
(((Who's next, I wonder.))) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7697704.stm Link: BBC NEWS | Technology | Cybercrime wave sweeping Britain. Cybercrime in the UK rose by more than 9% in 2007, according to a new report. Online identity firm Garlik's cybercrime report claims that more...
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Jonathan Keats: Conceptual Artist, Fabulist, and Critic
For Immediate Release Contact: jonathon_keats@yahoo.com ARTIST CREATES NEW UNIVERSE FROM URANIUM AND CHEWING GUM Novel Technique Puts Quantum Theory to Practical Use. . . Automated Universe Factories Planned for Government and Industry. . . San Francisco Gallery to Begin Selling...
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Tivo Set to Stream Netflix Movies by Christmas
Four years in the making, the Tivo/Netflix streaming partnership is finally ready for prime time. Tivo began testing software Thursday and expects to have the entire Netflix streaming collection available to subscribers of both services by early December. The companies...
10.30.08
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Supersized Cruise Ship Is Longer, Larger, Plusher
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Mutant Mods and Anarchy at Bike Kill
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Mercury as You've Never Seen It Before
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8 Things to Expect in the Next iPhone Update
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Pumpkin Mods Combine Tech, Orange Squash
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Fleet-Footed Flyby Reveals Mercury's Unseen Surface
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10 Geeky Movies That Should've Been Terrible, but Weren't
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Tapping the Vortex for Green Energy
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Obama's Secret Weapons: Internet, Databases and Psychology
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Wired.com Readers' Best Geek-o'-Lanterns
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