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Oct 31st

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Remember the mood ring? Here's the Emo-Bracelet →

Philips is working on a device known as the “Rationalizer”, a device that serves as a “mirror for your emotions”. Here is the concept behind this concept device. The user wears an Emobracelet on their wrist which measures the “arousal component of the user’s emotion through a galvanic skin response sensor”. This EmoBracelet is synced wirelessly with the EmoBowl,...

Oct 31st

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50 most annoying things about the internet →

2) Lazy activism Joining a Facebook group is the new going on a march, just substantially less effective. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime did not buckle under the onslaught of green-tinted Twitter avatars. —- Hahahaha! I had one… :S

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Oct 13th

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Field Guide to the Milky Way's ET-Life Hotspots →

Where in the Milky Way are we most likely to encounter advanced technological civilizations? Virginia Trimble, of the University of California, Irvine and one of the world’s leading astronomers specializing in the structure and evolution of stars and galaxies, believes that it is highly probable that most of the stars that are both rich enough in metals (all the elements except for hydrogen...

Oct 13th

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Tauntaun Sleeping Bag →

In the sub-zero wasteland of the planet Hoth, only the strong survive… and of course those lucky Jedi protected by the thick skin of a Tauntaun. Now after exhaustive movie viewing research and analysis ThinkGeek Labs has isolated the exact synthetic compounds needed to re-create Tauntaun fur. What have we done with this supreme knowledge? Created a Tauntaun sleeping bag of course.

Oct 13th

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Portable NES modded into a cartridge, hearts... →

—- Wow. This is really cool!

Oct 12th

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What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent as pirate... →

Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast-moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites. Sites such as RapidShare, Megaupload, and Hotfile let anonymous users upload large files such as cracked software for free. Hyperlinks to the software can then be distributed by pirates via Web sites, instant messages, or social media sites such as...

Oct 12th

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New Michael Jackson song 'This Is It' released... →

A previously unreleased song by Michael Jackson entitled “This Is It” was unveiled to the world on Monday almost four months after the star’s death. The recording features backing vocals by Michael’s brothers and will be played during the closing sequence of the forthcoming film “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” and feature on a two-disc CD set of the same name.

Oct 12th

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Girl cuts class →

THIS little girl learned her lesson when she played truant - and impaled herself on a steel fence spike trying to climb out of the playground. —- Ouch!

Oct 12th

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“Me: GO PENS GO! I’m gonna have to opt out of dinner before the game....”

Oct 10th

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The internet will devour newspapers - Telegraph →

What is the core problem of today’s newspaper industry? What is the central challenge of the Internet to the old certainties of the news business? According to Clay Shirky, the New York University professor of new media and the author of the 2008 international hit book Here Comes Everybody, the central problem is that there isn’t a central problem. It’s the disappearance of the centre, Shirky...

Oct 9th

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New Super Mario Bros. Wii Is As Hard As 'Contra' →

At a demo in New York City this week, Nintendo was showing off some of the new levels from the game. The first they dropped me in was level 8-7 and very near the end of the game. And it showed. You remember those ghost house levels from “Super Mario World” where you had to stay on the moving platform and it slowly chugged past ghosts and other obstacles? Ok, imagine that, but turn the...

Oct 9th

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Opera Opera 10 review from TechRadar UK's expert... →

Opera 10 is fast and easy to use, and the ability to expand tabs into previews is handy. There’s also integrated email and RSS reading, a download manager and a BitTorrent client, and the impressive 100 per cent Acid test compliance means Opera renders websites well. —- The Bit Torrent Client is what sold me. It’s Currently my default browser.

Oct 9th

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Saw VI trailers and video clips on Yahoo! Movies —- Now I remember why I stopped watching these movies.

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Declining greenback is now the world's pain →

The Canadian dollar climbed above the US95¢ level Thursday for the first time in over a year as weakness in the U.S. dollar intensified, prompting several central banks in Asia to intervene in an effort to cap the rise in their local currency. The loonie hit an intraday high of US95.19¢ before settling down to close at US95.04¢, an increase of US0.91¢. The currency has gained US2.5¢ in the past...

Oct 9th

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Obama willing to talk to Taliban →

The White House has indicated Barack Obama is prepared to allow the Taliban some role in Afghanistan or even cede parts of the country to them. A senior administration official told The Associated Press Mr. Obama would not tolerate the Taliban returning to power, but the U.S. President also realized they were an integral part of the country. “Bowing to the reality that the Taliban is too...

Oct 9th

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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Obama in stunning... →

America’s new president Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this morning for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples.” Awarding the world’s most prestigious prize for peace to a president in office less than nine months came as a surprise. —- I can’t comment on this, except to say it’s...

Oct 9th

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Canadian prostitutes sue for right to open... →

Three young Toronto women who describe themselves as feminist activists and “sex trade workers” on Tuesday launched a legal challenge of Canada’s prostitution laws. In Ontario Superior Court, their lawyers argued that the current legislation prohibiting solicitation endangers prostitutes by forcing them to seek customers on street corners. They are calling for the...

Oct 8th

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Police: Karaoke singer attacked over performance -... →

Police say a woman singing karaoke in a Connecticut sports bar was attacked by six other women who didn’t like her performance. Authorities say the six women, all under the legal drinking age of 21, knocked the singer to the floor, punched her and pulled her hair. The victim suffered bruises and a chipped tooth.

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