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Advertising Transforms Lab Machine Into Killer Ninja Robot
Genetics research is pretty exciting, but it would be far more entertaining if lab instruments could transform into killer robots. In the real world, DNA copying machines, perform a tremendously mundane task, repeatedly heating and cooling little vials of liquid....
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He'll See You in Hell
Every now and then, a collectible just reaches out and grabs you. This one is pretty darn nice. Han Solo on Hoth, looking for Imperial droids. Okay, maybe it's a little strange he doesn't have any legs, but the detail...
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Show Your Photos Off Creatively With Shape Collage
This was a little bit of serendipity. A couple weeks ago, this cool, free program called Shape Collage was mentioned as a pick on Mac Break Weekly, one of Leo Laporte's podcasts. It's a really neat program, basically automating something...
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Video: Wireless Bionic Eye Comes a Step Closer
"If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?" asked Rob Spence back in December 2008. Since then, the one-eyed Canadian filmmaker has been working on his Eyeborg project...
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Palm Talks Smack: All iPhone Customers Will Switch to Pre this Summer
Oh dear. Palm investor Roger McNamee appears to have had a little too much Red Bull before his interview in San Francisco yesterday. McNamee is a co-founder of Elevation Partners, which put an extra $100 million into Palm last December....
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National Reading Month GeekDad Giveaway
In the United States, March is National Reading Month, which got started March 2nd with National Reading Day in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday. As GeekDads we're fans of books and reading - and we know many of you are...
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Leica Euthanizes R-Series SLR Line
When I tell you that Leica is killing its manual focus R-Series camera line, many of you will say "Leica still makes a manual focus SLR?" Your surprise is justified. When I read the press release today I thought the...
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Penny Arcade Recognized for Charity Work
On Thursday, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins (Gabe & Tycho), authors of Penny Arcade, were recognized by the Washington state legislature for their work on Child's Play, an organization the two developed to deliver toys and games to children's hospitals...
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Audi Shark Concept has Teeth
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, there's been a shark sighting at a prominent German automaker. The Audi Shark concept is 26 year old Kazim Doku's winning entry into a design competition (PDF)...
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White Chocolate Keyboard Melts in the Hand, Not in the Mouth
This yummy looking keyboard is not, sadly, a Bluetooth accessory for the LG Chocolate. It would, though, be the perfect romantic geek-gift for the sweet-toothed nerd in your life. Teclado de chocolate blanco [Noquedanblogs]
03.06.09
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Japanese CD Selling for $100,000: Music Industry Wonders Why Downloads are Increasing
How do you shift music on old-fashioned CDs in a world where everybody and their grandmother (literally*) downloads music over the evil BitTorrent? Why, you make the physical CD worth more than the cost of the music it carries. This...
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Modern Global Electronic Manufacturing
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=240 "Bunnie Huang (in the middle) works for Chumby. Cumby wanted to get their device made, so Bunnie started looking for a company that could build the Chumby (a rather complex device). The problem is that there is no one...
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Apple Updates Old Time Capsule and Airport with Web Sharing Functions
One neat feature of Apple's new Time Capsule and Airport Extreme base stations is the ability to access them remotely via Mobile Me's Back to My Mac service (stop sniggering at the back -- we know Back to My Mac...
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Ford's Iosis MAX Is A CUV By A Different Name
The third iteration of the Iosis that Ford brought to the Geneva Motor Show is a surprisingly stylish "multi-activity vehicle," and although it's just a concept, you'll see a lot of those styling cues on Ford's small cars. Ford calls...
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BBC America Offers a Peek at Mars Sequel Ashes to Ashes
Ashes to Ashes, the sequel to the classic BBC sci-fi drama Life on Mars, arrives on BBC America this Saturday. American fans of the original got a first look at Ashes Wednesday in a new trailer (above). The Mars follow-up...
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80s Giant I.R.S. Records Arrives on iTunes
I.R.S. Records, the iconic record label of the 1980s, finally caught up to the 21st Century and put big, juicy chunks of its classic catalog on iTunes. Founded by Miles Copeland (older brother of Stewart, drummer from The Police) and...
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Cinematic Titanic Floating in 'Blood of the Vampires'
For their next DVD release, Joel Hodgson and his Cinematic Titanic team are taking on a vampire movie set in Mexico, performed by Filipinos, and dubbed into English. Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, J Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl...
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RIOE and Philips Show Transparent OLED Prototypes at Tokyo Fair
Philips Electronics and other companies researching future display technologies got together this week at the Big Sight lighting fair in Tokyo to unveil cool new OLED prototypes, including the latest builds of transparent displays. Philips Research mainly used the event...
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Metal Bits Self-Assemble Into Lifelike Snakes
ARGONNE, Illinois — In the basement of a nondescript building here at Argonne National Laboratory, nickel particles in a beaker are building themselves into magnetic snakes that may one day give clues about how life originally organized itself. These chains...
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Lord Hugh Rodley's cyberbank heist reaches its melancholy close
*Eight years in the slammer, a suicide, and various lighter sentences. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7926294.stm
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Amex Demands Right to Call and SMS Any Phone You Call Them From
American Express wants to keep in touch. So much so that Amex is changing its fine print so that it or its robots can call or SMS card holders on any phone line a member ever uses to contact the...
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10 Things We Would Have Bought at WonderCon 2009
One more bit of WonderCon adventure: A photo gallery of things we could have, but did not, buy on the show floor. For instance, we did not buy Mark Hamill's autograph, which would have cost $100. Also watch our WonderCon...
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Gadget Lab to Go: Wired's iPhone App Gets an Upgrade
The latest version of Wired's iPhone app is here, and it's a substantial upgrade. In this video, I walk you through some of the new features. This new version, 1.1, lets you browse our entire database of Wired product reviews,...
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Review: 2009 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid
Hey guys remember the WIRED product reviews website? It's still there, chugging out more gear evaluations than you can shake a USB stick at. And we're not just content pumping out five netbook reviews a week. We're getting our mitts...
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A 187-MPH Hybrid As Fast As It Is Green
Italdesign Giugiaro is a familiar name to gearheads the world over, and its designs for everything from Hyundai to Ferrari are well known. Frazer-Nash, on the other hand, is generally considered the answer to a trivia question, but it was...
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JVC's New Hybrid Camcorder Takes 9-Megapixel Stills
This week at the PMA camera conference in Las Vegas, JVC announced a high-def hybrid camcorder, the Everio X, which appears to be a symbolic push-back against the recent video breakthroughs in cameras. The Canon 5D Mark II brought beautiful...
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Watchmen Soundtrack Merges History, Money
Few comic books have knit together as many artistic, cultural and political strands as Watchmen, which has finally made the jump from graphic novel to popcorn blockbuster. That's perfect for studios searching for product tie-ins but perhaps not such a...
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Army Killer Drone Takes First Shots in Combat
The CIA's drone strikes in Pakistan may be getting all the press, but the Army is also deploying a deadly new pilotless aircraft, the Warrior-Alpha. Late last month, a Warrior-Alpha belonging to the Army's Task Force ODIN -- a once-classified...
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Turning Skin Cells to Stem Cells, Without Cancer
Like hackers one-upping each others' code, stem cell scientists keep finding better ways to turn flakes of skin into stem cells. And the latest technique could avoid the cancer-causing side effects of previous methods. By reprogramming skin cell DNA with...
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Nokia Fixes Faulty U.S. 5800 XpressMusic Phones
Nokia has found a fix for the 5800 XpressMusic phones that made their debut two weeks ago to a slew of customer complaints regarding connectivity to some 3G networks. "We have concluded this was an isolated situation related to a...
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Danger, Twitter!
I have been shamed by the powers-that-be into trimming my attention span even further. So watch out Twitter, here comes Danger Room...
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Warhammer Online Now Offers Free 10-Day Trial
Have you been meaning to try Warhammer Online, but don't necessarily want to pay for a month's worth of play time? Luckily for you the game now offers a free 10-day trial for new players. "A call to arms has...
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Thief Steals Sensitive Data from NYPD Warehouse
Personal information on more than 80,000 current and retired New York police officers was stolen from a supposedly secure data warehouse that stored NYPD pension fund data. The stolen data, stored on computer bakup tapes in a facility managed by the Port Authority, included names,...
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Former Midway Heads Subpoenaed for Insider Trading Allegations
Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari have been subpoenaed for depositions in civil court after creditors for the firm alleged insider trading in the recent sale of the company to new owner Mark Thomas, reports GamePolitics. Thomas' Acquisitions Holding Subsidiary...
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The Orange Revolution's Kiev Values
*Everybody raids everybody else in Ukraine while Putin shuts off the gas to Europe. *Sooner or later these reckless shenanigans ought to send fossil-fuel prices through the roof again (if you can get the fuel at all). http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/05/putin-gas-ukraine (...) Putin's...
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Freed From Hand of Man, Animals Could Rise Again
Animals shrunken by the evolutionary pressures of hunting and fishing could someday recover their lost splendor. After being left alone for just twelve generations, a population of experimentally stunted fish regained most of their original size — suggesting that the...
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Craigslist's Chicago Values
"The single biggest source of prostitution in the nation." arstechnica: Sheriff files lawsuit over Craigslist's red-light district - http://ping.fm/IivHP http://ping.fm/IivHP
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NASA's Planet-Hunting Space Telescope to Launch Friday
NASA's planet-hunting space telescope Kepler is slated to launch the night of March 6 from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to find Earth-sized planets that could have liquid water at the surface and potentially harbor...
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Shizzow's Social Location Service Marries 'Where' With 'What'
After several months in private beta, the location-notification service Shizzow is now available to the general public, the company announced Thursday. Shizzow is sort of a Twitter for location. Instead of a tweet, you send a "shout" announcing your current...
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Street Fighter II HD Remix Patch Detailed
Street Fighter IV may have stolen the limelight from Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, but the unfortunately named downloadable fighter still has a number of supporters, many of whom will be pleased with the fixes in the game's...
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Plutopia's Austin Values
*Well, what the heck, *I'm* surely going to this... PLUTOPIA CONVERGES ON SXSWi WITH GRAND FUTURIST VISIONS LACED WITH ROCK AND ROLL March 1, 2009 (Austin, TX) – As SXSWi has grown in popularity, attendance has swelled and corporate-sponsored parties...
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V. Vale's San Francisco Values
*Y'know, I don't normally post these RE/SEARCH emanations, but every once in a while somebody blunders onto this website through a Google search, and then they read one of these V. Vale things and their head explodes. Makes it worth...
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Fallout 3's 'The Pitt' Expansion Coming March 24
Bethesda Softworks has finalized a release date for the second Fallout 3 downloadable expansion: March 24, 2009. The add-on, dubbed "The Pitt," gives player the chance to explore the post-nuclear wreckage of Pittsburgh. Unlike modern-day Pittsburgh, The Pitt is a...
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Microsoft Gives Windows 7 Fans the Option to Ditch IE 8
The latest test builds of Windows 7, Microsoft's successor to its Vista operating system, allows users to completely delete Internet Explorer from their systems. While previous versions of Windows allowed you to disable IE, it appears the Windows 7 will...
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Release Details Revealed for Metal Gear Online SCENE
Since word broke that the SCENE expansion for Metal Gear Online would include fan favorite characters Vamp and Raiden, players have been chomping at the bit for word on when it would see release. Today, Sony answered their cries. As...
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Dueling Reviews: Watchmen for Fanboys, Comics Virgins
Who Watches Watchmen? Dueling Reviews of Watchmen Movie Few comic books have captured the imagination like Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' mid-'80s masterpiece, Watchmen. And few comic book movies have generated as intense an interest as Zack Snyder's bold mission...
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Fisker Seeks Federal Help With 'Low Cost' Plug-In Hybrid
Fisker Automotive says it could have a "lower cost" mass-market plug-in hybrid on the market "extremely quickly" with help from the federal government. Founder Henrik Fisker says the company would use Department of Energy loans to develop the car and...
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Review: Watchmen Actors Trumped by Awesome Visuals
Left to right: The Comedian, Silk Spectre II, Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandias, Nite Owl and Rorschach come to life on-screen at last in Watchmen. Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Early in the Watchmen movie, Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'" invests...
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Review: Watchmen Film Straddles Line Between Loyalty, Heresy
One could call bringing Watchmen to the big screen a thankless job. In finally adapting the greatest comic ever written, director Zack Snyder has triumphed under pressure where true visionaries like Darren Aronofsky and Terry Gilliam have failed. He has...
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MPAA Claims RealNetworks 'Destroyed' Evidence in DVD Copying Case, Used Work of Hackers
The Motion Picture Association of America is claiming RealNetworks "actively destroyed" evidence to hide that its DVD copying software was based partly on the work of "hackers." The allegations were contained in court filings in the studios' high-profile lawsuit that seeks to kill the Seattle-based...
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Amazon Now Offers Credit for Used Games
Amazon.com, the world's most popular online retailer, has added a used videogame buy back program to its immense selection of standard sales offerings. In return for a pre-determined amount of Amazon credit, the new program asks gamers to look up...
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An API for Federal Legislation? Congress Wants Your Opinion
Congress has apparently listened to the public's complaints about lack of convenient access to government data. The new Omnibus Appropriations Bill includes a section, introduced by Rep. Mike Honda (D-California), that would mark the first tangible move toward making federal legislative data available to the...
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Unpronounceable Search Engine Plumbs Twitter for Tunes
Although its domain name -- ♬.ws -- doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, the creators of this Twitter music search engine hope it will catch on as a way for music fans to track down musical musings within Twitter's vast...
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BlackBerry Store Sets $3 Minimum for Applications
A BlackBerry app store has been long in coming and now it looks like BlackBerry users will have to pay more than their iPhone and G1-using friends, too. The BlackBerry App store, App World, hasn't launched yet, but maker Research...
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Obama vs. Pentagon Bureaucracy, Round 1 (Updated Again)
Everybody in D.C. knows that the way the federal government -- and the Pentagon especially -- handles contracts is beyond screwed-up. Sweetheart deals, busted budgets, and lax oversight, and missed deadlines are pretty much the norm, on every major deal....
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Video Killed the Video Store
The Blockbuster is dead, long live the blockbuster. At least that's what the technology omens are saying. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Blockbuster Video, whose shares are trading below $1, is seeking advice on how to file for...
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Google Latitude to Cops: 'I Don't Remember'
Google is promising that its new location-reporting service Latitude, which lets you broadcast where you are to your friends, will have a memory leak and won't remember anything. That's a feature, not a bug. The intention is to make sure...
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Introducing the 'Iron Eagles' - Awesomely Bad Videos from the Military-Industrial Complex
The idea wasn't to make a vaguely-menacing, sometimes-silly testament to the Pentagon's far-reaching spy powers; quite the opposite. This Defense Intelligence Agency promotional video was supposed to be a way for the group to explain to the rest of the...
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Watchmen Saturday Morning Cartoon?
No, not really. But this hilarious take on what would happen if television executives from the 1980s got their hands on the rights for Alan Moore's masterpiece just made my morning. I salute its creator, Harry Partridge. Watch as the...
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The Beatles: Rock Band Will Launch September 9
MTV Games announced on Thursday the release details and official title for its music game based on the Beatles. The Beatles: Rock Band will ship for Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 3 in North America and European territories on 9/9/09....
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The Geekly Gamer: Gulo Gulo - A Fun Game You Won't Have to Help Your Kids Win!
Candy Land and Chutes & Ladders will rot your brain, and games like Sorry! only marginally less so. One of the hardest tasks for geek parents must surely be playing traditional kids' games with their kids, because so many of...
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The Beatles: Rock Band Set for September 9, Includes Beatles-Style Guitars
MTV, Harmonix and Beatles label Apple Corps. announced Thursday morning that the widely-anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band videogame will be released on September 9 for the Microsoft XBox 360, Sony Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii platforms in North America, Europe,...
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Unleashed: Bluetooth GPS for Nikon Cameras
Peek carefully at this picture of a Nikon D300 and you'll see something unusual. No, it's not the jaggy lines around the edges of the camera -- that comes from the product page. Instead, it's the little square box to...
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Google, Universal Ponder Major Label-Only YouTube Spinoff
YouTube presents an interesting quandary for the major record labels. On one hand, the site represents a new revenue stream that has pumped tens of millions of dollars into Universal Music Group. On the other, how are these major labels...
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Botnet Hacker Gets Four Years
A Los Angeles man was sentenced late Wednesday in federal court to four years in prison after pleading guilty last year to infecting as many as 250,000 computers and stealing thousands of peoples' identities and hijacking their bank accounts. The Los Angeles authorities said John...
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Eee PC-in-a-Keyboard Coming Soon
If you can fit a whole computer, keyboard and screen into a tiny, fold-up 7" box, why not squeeze one into a keyboard? And while you're there, what about adding a little touchscreen in the space normally inhabited by the...
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Firefox 3.5: Version Number Increase Reflects Number of New Features, Improvements
Mozilla has decided to increase the version number for the next release of the Firefox web browser. The next release of Firefox will be known as Firefox 3.5, rather than Firefox 3.1 as originally planned. The third beta release, which...
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Pakistanis Heart Drone Attacks, Survey Says
Maybe the Pakistanis don't mind the killer drone strikes too much, after all. For months, American and Pakistani observers have worried that the unmanned aerial assaults on militants in Pakistan could wind up destabilizing the country. "If we want to...
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What Every GeekDad Needs for Their Rumpus Room: A Flaming Wet Bar
Back in the day, it was a luxury feature in new homes to have a little wet bar in the family room or the build-out basement where the pool table and poker-dogs resided. It was a fixture of the suburban...
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Goofbaca and Slave Girl Minnie? Some Things Just Shouldn't be Mixed
I love Star Wars. I love Disney. I can even appreciate some of the cross-pollination they've done over the years, from Star Tours to the Jedi Academy show on the stage in Tomorrowland. But sometimes the marketing department has to...
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H.P. Lovecraft the Music Video: Even the Old Ones Would Approve
Sure it's not the holiday season, but Cthulu is the gift that keeps on giving the whole millennia! This fan made video features music which was written and performed by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society (HPLHS). Based on Lovecraft's short...
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Electric Hub is Simplest Powerbike Mod Yet
Those of you who scoff at the idea of "lazy" electric bicycles, think of it this way -- anything that gets more people onto a bike is a good thing. At the least, it'll help the elderly to get around....
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Truancy Origins: We Don't Need No Education
Last year GeekDad John Baichtal wrote a review of an alternate reality novel by a 15-year-old Stuyvesant High School student which said some readers might find the writer's "promise as an author and the novel's back-story far more compelling than...
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Swedish Solar Car Runs on Fool's Gold
Swedish supercar builder Koenigsegg brought a model of its solar-electric Quant concept car to the Geneva Motor Show and said the production model would have a range of 300 miles and a recharge time of less than 20 minutes. The...
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Darpa Wants a Lab for Sim Afghanistans
The U.S. military is bankrolling a dozen or more programs, to create Sim Afghansitans and Sim Iraqs where they can test their war plans. The problem is, each model-maker uses his own set of country-building software, his own set of...
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Photos: Big Picture Presents Remarkable Robot Roundup
The Boston Globe's Big Picture is probably one of last year's best new blogs, featuring in-depth galleries of news events. The twist is that the photos are huge (you'll be hitting the maximize button on your browser window) and that...
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Found: 1 Dalek, Slightly Damaged
Image via Wikipedia The Daily Telegraph recently reported that a strange and wonderful object has been recovered from a Beaulieu pond. Neither a rusty tin can nor a worn-out boot, the item in question appears to be none other than...
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Five for Fighting 3/5/09
* Karzai's sketchy family * Bush wiretapping: the known unknowns * Army to train with safer ammo * NASA, FUBAR * Urban camo (High five: Neatorama)
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It Lives! The 'Sudo Make me a Sandwich Robot'
The best, nerdiest and probably funniest cartoon from the stickman comic XKCD was the sandwich strip seen above. If you don't get it, then it doesn't matter. If you do get it, it is quite amazingly hilarious. Sadly, trying it...
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New iMac Gutted, Splayed, Sucked and Studied
Things you may not have known about the iMac, number one: The glass panel is held on by magnets. No glue, just 14 magnets which pull the panel's metal bezel into place. All you need to remove it are a...
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Beautiful, Indestructible Paper Bags
When I was bullied at school, the other kids told me I couldn't punch my way out of a paper bag (they also tried to steal my pocket calculator and they would always call me "four-eyes"). If only Tyvek had...
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'Exfoliate!' Dead Dalek Dug Out of U.K. Mud
In a scene right out of a classic Doctor Who episode, a bunch of U.K. workers accidentally unearthed a Dalek Tuesday. The Daily Telegraph describes the scene, as a volunteer pond warden in Hampshire was confronted with the surfacing eye...
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Movies: Hollywood Gives Watchmen a Wide Berth
An outfit belonging to costumed crime-fighter Nite Owl II (Patrick Wilson) comes out of retirement in Zack Snyder's adaptation of Watchmen. Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Only one wide-release movie opens Friday as Hollywood makes way for the long–awaited release of...
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New Trek Fragrances Smell Like Kirk, Dead Crewman
If you ever want to see a real-life depiction of what space travel looks like, just tell that gorgeous lady you met at your favorite bar that the fragrance you're wearing is Star Trek's Tiberius. She'll blast off that stool...
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Free Congress's Secret Research Reports, Lieberman Asks
Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman wants to know why Congress's research arm hasn't put its massive library of reports online for citizens to read and instead keeps them hidden like they are Bush-era state secrets. So on Wednesday, Lieberman (I) wrote New York Democrat Charles Schumer,...
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Martian Volcano Could Be Reservoir for Life
Scientists searching for extraterrestrial life might want to start digging under a Martian mountain three times as high as Mount Everest. Liquid water likely once sloshed beneath the 15-mile-high Olympus Mons, and may still be there today. Because the mountain...
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Tim and Eric Take Awesome Show to the Fans
Tim Heidecker (left) and Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! yuk it up during a panel at Comic-Con International. Photo courtesy Tim and Eric It took two successful television series for Eric Wareheim to realize he's...
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Bush Wiretapping: Known Unknowns Remain
It's no secret that lawyers in the Bush Administration's Justice Department wrote dozens of memos approving torture and domestic surveillance -- it's just that the Admnistration kept most of them secret by claiming that national security would be compromised if the public read legal analyses...
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How Do You Love the Mac Mini? Let Us Count the Ways
One thing is clear: A lot of Wired.com readers like the Mac Mini. Apple's puny PC is an impressively designed computer, but it's also a bit of a mystery: Just who uses this thing, and what for? Yesterday, we put...
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Top E-book iPhone Apps Unafraid as Amazon Steps into the Fray
Amazon revved up competition in the e-books market Wednesday by releasing a free iPhone app for reading titles purchased at its Kindle store. But established players who already top the iPhone's e-book app charts are not only unafraid of Amazon's...
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U.N. World Report Picks Up Massive Growth in Mobile Phone Ownership
According to a report this week from the United Nations, the number of mobile phone subscriptions throughout the world has quadrupled in the last seven years, from 1 billion in 2002 to 4.1 billion by December 2008. That means that...
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Watchmen's World Draws From Strangelove, Taxi Driver
The Owl Ship from the Watchmen movie rests in the Owl Chamber, a large, enclosed set built on a soundstage in Vancouver, British Columbia. Photo: Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Subway superhero headquarters and a menacing vision of Manhattan gone haywire form...
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Apatow Won't Be Busting Ghosts in Ghostbusters 3
Internet rumors notwithstanding, geek comedy genius Judd Apatow will not be producing a Ghostbusters sequel. "We have some great new writers working on a new [Ghostbusters] script, but Judd isn't involved," said Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures, to Los...
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Driven (Finally): Tesla Roadster
See also: Photo Gallery: Tesla's Roadster Is Sex on Wheels We've been writing about the Tesla Roadster for more than a year, and Tesla Motors finally gave us the chance to drive one. For two hours. Around town. With a...
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Researchers Want to Add Touch, Taste and Smell to Virtual Reality
Virtual reality schemes have long tantalized geeks with unrealized visions of holodecks and long-distance cybersex. Now, a group of British researchers want to round out the experience with virtual touch, taste and smell. To simulate the real world, they argue,...
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Gaming Journalist N'Gai Croal Leaves Newsweek
Come March 6, widely respected journalist N'Gai Croal will no longer be covering the gaming industry for Newsweek. Though Croal's announcement via Newsweek's Level Up blog doesn't specifically mention what he will be doing instead, he does wax verbose on...
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Ubisoft Cancels World in Conflict Console Port
Despite confirmation from previous publisher Vivendi Interactive, Ubisoft has apparently canceled the console versions of World in Conflict's upcoming Soviet Assault expansion, reports CVG. Ubisoft purchased WiC developer Massive Entertainment last November after the firm was inherited by Activision and...
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BlackBerry App Store Gets a Name
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion's online store for third party applications finally has a name but there's still no sign of a launch date. RIM will call its online applications store the BlackBerry App World. The site for developers will...
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Mitsubishi EV Channels Tron
We're betting the designers behind the Mitsubishi i MiEV Sport Air concept watched Tron a few dozen times and killed a lot of time playing the videogame. Their latest stab at a smaller, greener car that's easier on the planet...
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Game|Life Video: 5 Ways to Steamroll Your Enemies in Halo Wars
Want to start demolishing the Covenant, strategically? In this week's episode of Game|Life the Video, Nate Ralph takes us through a match of Halo Wars with his top five tips for utter domination. In Nate's review of Halo Wars, which...
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Tesla's Roadster Is Sex on Wheels
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Key to Eliminating U.S. Flight Delays? Redesign the Sky Over New York City
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Editorial: Trial Shows Pirate Bay's Crew Is All Hat and No Rum
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WonderCon 2009: 10 Things We Would Have Bought
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5 Huge Green-Tech Projects in the Developing World
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Review: Animated Wonder Woman Plays Sex Card
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Aston Martin One-77 Screams 'Money Is No Object'
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Report: Diebold Voting System Has 'Delete' Button for Erasing Audit Logs
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Botnet Hacker Gets Four Years
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Oh, Murcie! Latest Lamborghini Packs 670 Horsepower
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Pirate Bay Trial Ends; Verdict Due April 17
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Pop Superstar Sting Supports Pentagon Hacker, Condemns U.S.
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Gumpert Builds the Ugliest Sexy Car Ever
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Driven (Finally): Tesla Roadster
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Spinal Tap's Christopher Guest Keeps the World Guessing
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