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Online gaming - meaning playing actual shoot-’em up games and the like, not gambling - may be big business but to its fans, it’s also serious business.
So, in order to avoid newcomer (”noob”) faux pas, Destructoid blog has written a cheeky set of 10 Golden Rules of Online Gaming. For example:
8: Singing is awesome:
Communicating via [...]
Twins separated at birth have married each other without realising they were brother and sister, it has been revealed.The British couple have now been granted an annulment after a special High Court hearing. Judges ruled the marriage had never validly existed.Full details of how the brother and sister fell in love and married have been [...]
Rules of Thumb is attempting to collect all of the world’s Rules of Thumb in one place.
A rule of thumb is a homemade recipe for making a guess. It is an easy-to-remember guide that falls somewhere between a mathematical formula and a shot in the dark. A farmer, for instance, knows to plant his corn [...]
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Screencaps comparing the DVD and HD versions of LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring (roll over to toggle the images). Quite a difference. (thx, alex)
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Enjoy this video of a perpetual motion machine in action. I don’t believe it for a second, but it’s fun to see the thing in action and listen to the guy’s patter. Also, the sound the wheel makes as it spins is pleasant.
Link (Thanks, pooty McDooDoo!)
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Apple announced newer faster Mac Pros today. They start at $2799 but you can configure them up to several thousand dollars (including software and accessories).
The really expensive bits are the 32 GB of RAM ($9100), the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 video card ($2850), the four 15,000 RPM hard drives ($800 each), the two 30″ Cinema [...]
Matthieu Aubry, Julien Rouvière and Xavier Maurice have developed a drum system that uses two cameras to track drum sticks in real-time. This allows the player to drum away on virtual drums, the computer analyzes what the player is hitting in the virtual world and plays the corresponding sounds.
“Video acquisition of the 2 cameras simultaneously, [...]
Blogger sickbastard, poor guy, is apparently hated by the giant e-tailer Amazon! Link
I’m guessing the book is Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
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I can only begin to imagine the chaos that this species of birds can cause if it is found in your neighbourhood. Skip to the second half of this video to hear the sounds of camera shutters clicking, car alarm ringing and operating chainsaws.
A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most [...]
Does our hair and fingernails keep growing after we die? Do we only use 10% of our brains? Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine debunked a collection of medical myths that are familiar to all of us, even though there’s no scientific evidence to support the claim. They published their results in the [...]
Johnny says: The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday. Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. The new country would issue its own passports and driving licenses, and [...]
Simplify Media, the mother of all iTunes plugins, lets you share your iTunes collection over the net, and now works with iPhones and Linux: The Simplify Media Mobile alpha enables you to access your entire music collection on your iPhone or iPod Touch wherever you have WiFi. You can also listen to the libraries of [...]
Check out this powerful Snow Plow Train get stuck. At first I thought it would keep going but as massive as they are, mother nature has her way.
Link: Youtube
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Cops in Rockdale, Georgia are putting helpful yellow stickers on the windows of cars that have packages in plain sight so that crooks know which cars to break into. Officers with the Conyers Police Department will be on foot patrol in the parking lots of major shopping areas in the city over the next couple [...]
Alex Goldberg, 14-yo urban hustler, has parleyed his chutzpah into free clothes, celebrity friends, and courtside Knicks seats.
Next up: Jamie Foxx. The actor was near the bar, giving a woman a massage, and saw the crowd now gathered around Alex. Foxx offered to buy him a drink. What do you want, little boy? “A pina [...]
The truth, as revealed by Sean Bonner, who is, incidentally, kickin’ it in Vienna this month with the freaks from monochrom. Here’s a post he did today about a presentation by Scott Blake on Barcode Art….
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A Louisiana man and his wife were sentenced prison for scamming their friends and family into giving him over $989,898 with a crazy story about scanning their bodies with a satellites and curing their ailments while they slept. Stacey Finley, 34, persuaded her targets — described by federal prosecutors as “solid, middle-class, educated citizens” — [...]
Doctors in China admit they are baffled after a man began to perspire green sweat.Cheng Shunguo, 52, of Wuhan city, says his sweat turned green in the middle of November.“I noticed that my underwear and bed sheets were all green, and even the water in the shower,” he said.Cheng says he feels no discomfort, but [...]