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  • I guess you could say they're stuck between a rock and a hard place...

    As though the Chilean miners trapped underground for weeks needed more to worry about, their personal lives just got complicated — apparently their wives and mistresses are fighting it out on the surface....

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  • German designer brings Wipeout racing game to life

    The intersection of video games and real life is a fantastic place to play, as evidenced by Roombas, Halo and the occasional six-string guitar, but all you really need to blur reality is a webcam, an R/C car and a studio filled with cardboard. That's what Malte Jehmlich and company used to create this rendition of Wipeout, which moves practically as fast as the PlayStation original due to the blinding scale speed of its 1/28 model cars....

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  • ‘Legend of Korra’: The ‘Avatar’ Creators on the New Spinoff

    The creators of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” say that the new spinoff series “The Legend of Korra” will be more mature than the original show, but will still have the same sense of fun and adventure.

    Nickelodeon, the network behind the original show, today announced that it will air the “Avatar” spinoff series “The Legend of Korra” (a working title) starting next year....

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  • Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off...

    Thanks for visiting my homepage. I am a technology professional with a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems as well as an avid fan of music, art and literature. I also enjoy staying abreast to the latest tech trends and hardware as well as world news and political events. Please feel free to look around and let me know what you think....

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  • There Is No Honor In Attacking The Weak

    Out of desperation an obvious cry for help, Lt. Worf has pulled all stops in a daring daylight robbery of a local Colorado Springs 7-Eleven.

    In foot pursuit, local Police where stunned and baffled when they suddenly lost sight of the suspect in a "sparkling mist"....

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2010.9.5

I guess you could say they're stuck between a rock and a hard place...

By Anna North

The 33 miners have been trapped since Aug. 6, and a dangerous rescue effort may take until Christmas. Rescue workers on the surface are able to communicate with them and send them food, but there's trouble above ground too: according to the Telegraph, the miners' wives and girlfriends are fighting over who gets government support while the men are trapped. Back on the surface, these dudes were apparently busy — one guy has four ladies fighting over him. Says Red Cross worker Marta Flores, "There has been a lot of conflict between women. [...] We had a big bust up in the canteen tent when a wife came across a woman who claimed to be her husband's lover – we had to step in and pull them apart before things got physical."

Psychologists working with the miners are apparently trying to hide the fighting from them in an effort to keep them calm (presumably the T...

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German designer brings Wipeout racing game to life

By Sean Hollister @ Engadget

The intersection of video games and real life is a fantastic place to play, as evidenced by Roombas, Halo and the occasional six-string guitar, but all you really need to blur reality is a webcam, an R/C car and a studio filled with cardboard. That's what Malte Jehmlich and company used to create this rendition of Wipeout, which moves practically as fast as the PlayStation original due to the blinding scale speed of its 1/28 model cars. It's all controlled by an arcade racing cabinet complete with steering wheel and on-screen display wirelessly connected to an Arduino board. Originally a two-month hobby project, the designers are presently working towards an advanced version with force feedback and powerups (including boost!) using sensors built right into the track -- and hopefully a forklift to lug all that corrugated wood pulp around. See it in action after th...

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‘Legend of Korra’: The ‘Avatar’ Creators on the New Spinoff

By Christopher John Farley @ The WSJ

The Wall Street Journal - The creators of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” say that the new spinoff series “The Legend of Korra” will be more mature than the original show, but will still have the same sense of fun and adventure.

Nickelodeon, the network behind the original show, today announced that it will air the “Avatar” spinoff series “The Legend of Korra” (a working title) starting next year.

The first series took place in a world in which supernatural “benders” have the ability to manipulate the elements of air, earth, fire and water, and focused on Aang, a young airbender who turned out to be the Avatar, a person capable of controlling all the elements. The new series takes place 70 years later in the same world and follows the new Avatar, a teen girl named Korra who has learned to bend earth, water and fire and seeks to master air u...

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Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off...

By Tim Reaves

Thanks for visiting my homepage. I am a technology professional with a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems working in telephony as well as an avid fan of music, art and literature. I also enjoy staying abreast to the latest tech trends and hardware as well as world news and political events. Please feel free to look around and let me know what you think.

About Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist, winner of the Gunzou Literature Prize for budding writers for his first novel Hear The Bird Sing (1980), the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers for his trilogy of novels Hear The Bird Sing, Pinball 1973 (1980), and A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), known as The Trilogy of the Rat, and most recently the Yomiuri Literary Prize.

Murakami has also lent his expertise to translating several American novels into Japanese. His books and novels ...

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There Is No Honor In Attacking The Weak

By Tim Reaves

COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) — Colorado police say a man with too much "Star Trek" on his mind used a sword modeled after the weapon carried by Klingon warriors to demand money from two convenience stores.

Investigators say the man took an unknown amount of cash from a 7-Eleven store Wednesday but left empty-handed when he tried to rob another store about 25 minutes later.

Police Lt. David Whitlock says no one was injured.

The StarTrek.com Web site says the double-pointed sword used by the Klingons on "Star Trek" is crescent-shaped and about a yard long. Police did not specify what material it was made of.

No one has been charged in the incident....

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