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You May Already Own the Most Powerful Portable Gaming Device
via Cult of Mac by Leigh McMullen on May 12, 2008
Okay so I’m breaking my own rule about not writing about the iPhone…John Gruber’s article here, where he details the relative power of the iPhone as a computing platform, got me wondering how the god-phone’s specs lined up against my favorite portable device of all time, the Sony PlayStation Portable. Right now, the PSP is the premier portable gaming and entertainment platform, but once...
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PMOG comes out of beta
via Waxy.org Links by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Justin Hall and Merci Hammon's game built on passive web surfing [via]
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Free Music Studio Means No More Excuses
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on May 12, 2008
Virtual instruments may be going the way of recorded music: free and online.We've seen plenty of sites that let you make or mix music in a rudimentary way, but none that offer the deep feature set of Hobnox AudioTool. This free online electronic music studio lets you compose with two TB-303 Bass Line generators, Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines and two banks of effects pedals including...
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AT&T Webpage Leaks Black iPhone? [Update: iPhone Announcement Soon?]
via MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
AppleInsider has noted that AT&T's website for existing users now has an option for a black iPhone.There have been rumors that Apple's upcoming 3G iPhone would come with a glossy black back (1, 2). While there have al...
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Nice, true, simple
via Monoscope by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
ad made for Milenio, a Mexican newspaper who claims they solved the inner workings of Bush's personality. Simpson Texas cowboy = GWB. The tagline reads: "Such a complex world needs a good explanation."
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The Dangers of Driving After GTA
via Wired: Game|Life by Susan Arendt on May 12, 2008
I've never bought the argument that a videogame's content was likely to influence one's actions, but after several days spent playing GTA IV and a recent trip out of town, I'm no longer quite so sure. Despite the fact that it gives various lawyers and media pundits agita, the game's brutal violence isn't the problem, at least not in my case. My prolonged exposure to GTA IV...
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SOLAR LILY PADS Proposed for Glasgow’s Clyde River
via Inhabitat by Jill Fehrenbacher on May 12, 2008
In a stunning example of biomimicry, Scottish architecture firm ZM Architecture have come up with a brilliant scheme to provide more solar power to the city of Glasgow - and do so in a way that is provocative, creative, and aesthetically appealing. The proposal? To design Solar Lily Pads which will float in Glasgow’s River Clyde and soak up the sun’s rays, sending electricity to Glasgow’s...
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Bill O'Reilly On "Inside Edition": Vintage Meltdown
via The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com by The Huffington Post News Editors on May 12, 2008
It should come as no surprise that Bill O'Reilly has always been a screamer, but it's always nice to have video proof. Below, watch a vintage meltdown from his "Inside Edition" days that has just resurfaced (via Gawker), in which he freaks out over bad writing on the teleprompter and unleashed an obscenity-laced tirade towards the writer: Previously: Rudy Giuliani As 'Inside...
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Giant working NES controller/coffee table
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2008
Kyle Downes of the aptly named "Ultra Awesome" blog built this genius coffee table that's an enormous, working NES controller! It opens to reveal storage space for tons of game-carts .Link(via Wonderland)
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Amitai Etzioni: Let's "bomb" Myanmar--with rice
via The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com by Amitai Etzioni on May 09, 2008
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated earlier this week that he "couldn't imagine the United States dropping aid by air" to the million displaced people of Myanmar "without permission from the Myanmar government." "It's sovereign air space, and you'd need their permission to fly in that air space," U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Michael Mullen explained to reporters. Such airdrops...
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