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Friday, October 15, 2010

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If Game Marketing Used Negative Review Quotes

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What if a big game publisher's PR guy, when tasked with pulling quotes from reviews of their games, seems to find only the negative in even the most gushingly positive critique? Find out how that turns out.

Leak: Verizon Samsung Continuum Launching 10/28

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The Samsung Continuum (or i400) looks like a Galaxy S class phone, but it has twist: a second horizontal screen or "ticker" below the main screen. The ticker is to be used for RSS feeds, notifications and even date and time info.

9 Reasons why 30 Rock's Live East Coast edition beat the West Coast version

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The East and West Coast versions of the live 30 Rock episode last night didn't teem with differences — unless you consider punchline tweaks, a different opening song, and the pamphlets in Dr. Spaceman's office major changes — but it was still easy to conclude which version was better.

8 Ways Online Dating Is Changing

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Remember the old embarrassing act of secretly logging into an online dating service, filling out a questionnaire and waiting impatiently only for the result to be "No Matches Found." If there were any matches it was so far down the barrel that you would drown if you were bobbing for apples. Luckily, the internet is changing the idea of getting a date for everyone.

The Incredible Hulk returns to TV

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The Hulk is back

Wind Power Without the Blades: Big Pics

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Windstalk is completely silent. Tall cattail-like stalks generate electricity by swaying in the wind and LED lamps look like stars glowing at night.

Is a Lap Dance Cheating in the Eyes of the Law?

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In Asylum's eternal quest to bring our readers the straight dope, we connected with legal expert and funny guy Tom O'Keefe to answer your burning legal questions. If you have a question for him, drop it in the comments. My wife and I have a prenuptial agreement with a no-cheating clause. Legally, is getting a lap dance in a strip club a violation? The good news for most people is that due to that national standard of "no-fault" divorce, cheating should have no impact on the division of assets. So, the only time you can expect the law to get involved in your "innocent night of fun with t

Why Monkeys Shouldn't Be Spaceflight Testers

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Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chaio discusses his personal space radiation experiences and why monkeys shouldn't be our spaceflight guinea pigs.

From Wired: America's Army is Smarter, Richer, and Southern

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U.S. soldiers face the unfair burdens of stereotyping: They are not dumb; they are not brutes; they are not broke; and they are not joining up because they have no other career options.

eBay to use Joomla as the 'open source glue'

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eBay is building a massive social network for employees on Joomla!. The project has broader implications for open source at other enterprises.

Your Facebook ‘friend’ may be a federal agent, says report

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A new report reveals that the government has been extensively monitoring social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

Stonnington deserves an anti-douchebag medal of honor (pic)

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Flickr killer? Free min.us photo sharing service has many pluses

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A pair of Boston-area entrepreneurs have launched a free photo-sharing service called min.us that makes distributing slideshows of your pictures as simple as dragging and dropping them onto a Web page, then sending out a resulting short URL via email, Twitter or Facebook.

Guy Gets 650k After Stripper Gives Him Double Vision

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It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Such is the case for a certain Michael Ireland...

The Republican Way: Regulating Morality While Deregulating Corporations

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While they work night and day to deregulate corporate America, Republicans and teabaggers want to regulate morality and pass laws that force archaic biblical regulations on every American. Conservatives are hell-bent on regulating what goes on in the bedroom between consenting adults, and they want to regulate what kind of person teaches in schools.

10th Grader Aaron Gordon’s In-Game 360 Dunk Off the Backboard [Video]

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If you think the title is a typo, you are mistaken. Rising Class of 2013 power/small forward Aaron Gordon is one of the most athletic...

Afghanistan War: Anatomy of an Ambush

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Afghanistan War ambush on troops in Afghanistan reveals flaws in counterinsurgency strategy.

Embarrassing Photos You Really Don't Want Tagged on Facebook

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Beware of #17! You've been warned.

Apple Wins Pinch-to-Zoom Patent, with Caveats

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Apple has won a patent for the coveted pinch-to-zoom feature. The patent application was filed in December of 2006 (patent #7,812,826). However, the patent issued does not give Apple complete control over the pinch-to-zoom functionality, which now exists on just about every current-generation platform. Here's the section of the patent that...

Bank Robbers Had Baby in Getaway Car, Money Exploded

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Inequa Rushing and Waylon McDonald robbed a bank with their 4 month old, prematurely born baby in the getaway car. Big shock: they were sentenced to jail for a long, long time.
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