Posted on December 28th, 2007 by BRiT
MADISON, Wis. — Electronics might be the hot item on all gift lists this holiday, but it’s also on the list of some lawmakers.
A proposed bill in Wisconsin would add an extra sales tax to electronics.
The bill’s author, state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, said the money raised from the tax isn’t to dissuade gamers, but to [...]
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Filed under: Dumbass, Gaming, Internet, Other, Software, Technology, Television, Toys, Video
Posted on July 8th, 2007 by reflex
Watch me be much too lazy to copy the formatting from the first one of these I did! Hopefully I’ll get close enough. I had such lofty plans to make them all look the same… oh well.
I have a vile and thorough hatred for all of McDonald’s advertising, particularly since they adopted the obnoxious “I’m [...]
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Filed under: Bizarre, Commentary, Dumbass, Food, Funny Bone, Internet, Other, Reviews
Posted on June 16th, 2007 by reflex
PALATINE, Illinois (AP) — An elementary school science teacher in this Chicago suburb doesn’t have to turn on the news for an update on NASA’s space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor.
Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger’s baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the [...]
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Filed under: Bizarre, Internet, Paranormal / UFO, Science, Technology
Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by BRiT
PARIS (AFP) - France became the first country to open its files on UFOs Thursday when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades.
The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful [...]
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Filed under: Internet, Paranormal / UFO
Posted on March 19th, 2007 by reflex
Google is working on a basic mobile phone to extend its dominance in internet advertising to handheld devices, according to analysts.
Richard Windsor, of Nomura, the broker, said that Google representatives had talked about a device at an industry event in Germany. The report followed remarks by a Google executive in Spain, who admitted the company [...]
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Filed under: Internet, Technology
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by BRiT
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The European version of PlayStation 3 will play fewer PlayStation 2 video games when it launches on March 23 compared with models launched earlier in Japan and America, Sony Corp said on Friday.
“The backwards compatibility is not going to be as good as the U.S. and Japan models,” a Sony spokesman said.
PlayStation [...]
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Filed under: Gaming, Internet, Software, Technology, Television, Toys
Posted on February 19th, 2007 by BrainwashedMonkey
SAN FRANCISCO: As media companies struggle to reclaim control over their movies, television shows and music in a world of online file-sharing software, they have found an ally in software of another kind.The new technological weapon is content-recognition software, which makes it possible to identify copyrighted material, even, for example, from blurry video clips.
The technology [...]
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Filed under: Internet, Technology
Posted on February 16th, 2007 by BRiT
According to a survey conducted by Gametart, a game rental service in the UK, chicks who game get more lovin’ than those who don’t. Out of a sample of 200 ladies (or should that be “laid-ees”?), the ones who gamed got, erm, fragged 1.1 more times a week than those who didn’t.
So what I’m saying [...]
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Filed under: Gaming, Internet, Toys
Posted on January 28th, 2007 by MaxPower
The growing popularity of Massively Multiplayer games has brought the issue of ownership rights in virtual worlds, and the appropriateness of what is called ‘real money transfer’ (RMT) into an increasingly public light. The success of the company IGE, as well as the launch of Sony Online Entertainment’s ‘Station Exchange’ service would seem to indicate [...]
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Filed under: Bizarre, Gaming, Internet
Posted on January 22nd, 2007 by reflex
BUFFALO, New York (AP) — He was an 18-year-old Marine headed to war.
She was an attractive young woman sending him off with pictures and lingerie.
Or so each one thought.
In reality, they were two middle-aged people carrying on an Internet fantasy based on seemingly harmless lies.
When a truthful 22-year-old was drawn in, authorities say, their cyber [...]
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