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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

VR-Zone : Technology Beats - Defeat “Fatal1ty” @ Computex & Win US$3K!

PowerColor, Cooler Master and Universal ABIT are in search of a challenger in Taiwan to take on Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, the world’s best known professional video gamer, during COMPUTEX 2007. Is this guy human? Can he be defeated? PowerColor, Cooler Master and Universal ABIT want a worthy challenger to give him a run for his money.



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Monday, April 16, 2007

ben heck's ps360 sixaxis controller

Console modder god Benjamin Heckendorn is at it again. He's combined the case of an Xbox 360 wireless controller with the guts of a Sony PS3 SIXAXIS controller to give birth to this oddity, striking fear into the hearts of 360 fanboys everywhere



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PICTURES: The Most Beautiful Bridges In The World

This is a collection of the most beautiful bridges in the World. 37 photos.



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Top 10 Most Pointless USB Drives

Many USB drives are used to store data, while others are just simply pointless, expensive, or “heavy”. Continue reading to see them all. Including the World's Heaviest USB, Indestructible USB Drive, Morse Code USB Drive,etc.



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The World's Most Pierced Woman [Picture]

All I can say is WOW



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Why Masturbation Won't Kill a Kitten

By now I'm sure you're familiar with the age-old adage, "Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten." When my doctor said this to me the other day, it made me think: can the statement really be true?



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Crazy Website 3

I know there are people like me who are too lazy to look out at the night sky. So just sit down and click around.



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Kermit the Frog had an itch...

...so he went to the doctor and found some not so good news.



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Turn Any Picture Into 3D Image

Fotowoosh, a new service from Maryland-based startup Freewebs, will turn any image into a 3D model. In a week or so, the company says, users will be able to upload a picture and have an animated 3D image returned to them in an embeddable Flash widget.



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The real reason OS X Leopard is delayed...

Great comic from the guys over at Joy of Tech. Top reason: "Vista sucks, there's no need to rush"



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Bungie Clarify On New Halo 3 Details

Following the recent release of the Halo 3 Vidoc, Bungie have posted their weekly update to clarify on a few details. The 'X' button will indeed be used to deploy 'equipment' to the map (Bubble Shied/Trip Mine), the 'equipment' will be quite rare so as not to unbalance the gameplay. And the graphics will look a lot nicer in the Beta version.



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Geek Culture

These are the greatest monitor setups I have ever seen.



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Bush's $1 BILLION 'don't have sex' campaign a flop

It's been a central plank of George Bush's social policy: to stop teenagers having sex. More than $1bn of federal money has been spent on promoting abstinence since 1998. The trouble is, new research suggests that it hasn't worked. At all.



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The Worst Movies by the Best Directors

Keep in mind that many of these films are quite good, in their own rights: they just suck when compared to some of the better work by their respective director.



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THIS. IS. MUSHROOM KINGDOM!!

Mario ain't havin none of it. Very reminiscent of 300



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How to Win at Rock-Paper-Scissors (and also how to cheat)

Earlier this month, our YouTube Hunter found some riveting rock-paper-scissors footage. Today, Rocketboom has more, including classic interviews with the world’s best RPS athletes.



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New US Passport Design is, um, Incredible?

The new U.S. e-passport will incorporate updated security features and a new design. This design will reflect the varied landscapes of our country and each page will include a quote reflecting the hope and success that is the United States of America. They sure crammed in as much imagery as they could. Pretty incredible.



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A Firefox Bankcard! How cool is that?

My bank offered the possibility to use my own image on my bankcard. You could order it through a web interface, so I uploaded the Firefox logo onto mine and picked up the card a few days later from the bank. See the result... Now if only my local bank could do that



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Now Bios(phoenix) that are crippled to work ONLY with Vista!!

This BIOS is ONLY for use with Windows Vista. I guess phoenix is bending over for microsoft and their way of tying a consumer in



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How to get ANY Wii game for $36 at GameStop (or possibly lower!)

GameStop/EBGames is running a promotion where you can get any new Wii game (up to $49.99) if you trade in 2 used Wii games. The price of Far Cry for Wii recently dropped to $19.99 and it's eligible. So you can buy used copies of Far Cry for $17.99 and get any game for $36, or buy copies at Best Buy for $14.99 after coupon and get a game for $30!



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Diabetics cured by stem-cell treatment

In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of stem cells drawn from their own blood.I would say this is a landmark study and truly great news, its pretty much cured



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Network Monitoring, Space Invaders Style

NetQoS has a little something to bring video game-style drama to the hum drum task of monitoring your system traffic. Their program, Netcosm monitors the traffic flowing across your routers and remasters that data into entertaining clashes of good and evil data packets. See Video!



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PICTURES: All 10 pages of the GTA IV Game Informer preview

Lots of pics here of the new GTA4, its in NYC so worth checking out



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Jackie Chan and Jet Li Team Up to Star in "Forbidden Kingdom"

I thought Jet Li was done with martial arts epics? Thankfully, he's a liar. This movie will have as a basis the same Chinese legend that spawned Dragonball Z, and will have stunts/fights choreographed by Yuen Woo-Ping ("The Matrix", "Crouching Tiger", "Kill Bill").



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Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Bill Gates on Making ACPI Not Work with Linux

Bill Gates: "Maybe we can define the APIs so that they work weel with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something related to this."



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New Royal Dutch Shell Patent Could Mean Oil For $30 A Barrel, US #1 Source

Royal Dutch Shell is patenting a technique to convert shale to petroleum at a cost of only about $30/barrel. If it works, the world's single largest source of oil would be... the United States. What would the world be like if all the oil in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, Iraq, Nigeria, and elsewhere was suddenly nearly worthless?



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Meet the Hamster Shredder

Just be mindful to keep your little guy clear of the paper-grinding gears, we wouldn't want this thing taking its name literally.



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The Singles Map (picture)

A map of where people are single in the the U.S. Men compared to women. MUST SEE



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The Prospect of All-Female Conception

Women might soon be able to produce sperm in a development that could allow lesbian couples to have their own biological daughters, according to a pioneering study published today. Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm cells from a woman's bone marrow tissue.



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PICTURE: Microsoft & Linux together at last.

Title says it all.



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Urban Art Big Illusion

Random yellow paint or is there something else going on on a much much larger scale? You know you want to find out. Just scroll down and you'll figure out what it is



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Future of Intel’s ultramobile PC?

"Interesting video that outlines what the future of UMPC might actually look like - or at least that’s the vision. This could be coming soon… in Beijing next week…who knows! Have you seen this video before? I haven’t." The video is really really interesting so watch it



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Hidden Browser Controls for new Wii Opera browser

Here is a full list of Commands that you can do with the Wiimote to navigate with the browser including some Hidden commands very useful for navigating



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Meet the World's New Second Richest Man

Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim has quietly overtaken investor Warren Buffett as the world's second-richest man and is close to wresting the top spot from Bill Gates, Forbes magazine reported Wednesday. the irony is delicious



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New Get a Mac Add: Stuffed

The newest "Get a Mac" add, where PC complains about all the trial software on him.heres the youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJgtmPLYGEE



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Racy DVD of Principal and Science Teacher Having Sex Sent to Parents Homes

A principal and a science teacher taped themselves having sex.The video was made public and was even sent to parents of children who attended the school.Nothing like free porn in your mailbox featuring your kids science teacher and principal.



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Crazy web site

Colour flows off the cursor. The cursor has some trippy effects



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Commercial for Transformers Movie trailer shows Optimus Prime with lips?!

Feel free to comment whether its cool, not cool, don't care



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The Most Frustrating Super Mario Mod Ever

Words cannot express the agony I feel as the fellow playing this game time and time again succumbs to death. Yet, I must laugh. The invisible coin block is just too much. The player was lining up to jump and then when he finally gets some air — BLAMMO! — he meets his fate.(personally i couldn't make it for more than 5 mins)



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What happens when you click on "Send Error Report" ?

Ever wondered what happens when you click on "Send Error Report" whenever a software crashes on your computer? Here is an insight into what people at Microsoft do when someone submits one such report.



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Crazy web site 2

The continuation of crazy website #1



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The most sexy fifty year old woman ever

Title says it all, now check the pictures. The miracles modern medicine can do these days.



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Red PS3 Goes for $12,100!!

Is there any end to stupidity?



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