This sounds an awful lot like RFID and NFC (Near Field Communications). The purpose of these is to have inventory that can identify itself when 'pinged' (books, pallets, passports ...). This entails all kinds of things, like shelves that can inventory themselves, tracking an item from manufacturer through shipping, distribution and ultimately to the item in your hands.

Ghostbusters! They have proven experience taking care of slimers ...

He has a website here: http://www.drkarl.com/ and you can listen to him on the ABC website here: http://abc.gov.au/science/drkarl/

gawd. It's "straight" not "strait".

Cough syrup! Nothing but plain, ordinary, over-the-counter children's cough syrup!

I had the same kicked-in-the-guts reaction too. I spent a good chunk of my adolescence either playing it or making elaborate maps that I never published. Learning how to make all the different types of doors, using the BUILD editor, stuffing about with the .con files ... mods! caribbean duke was great. sigh.

I've been waiting for since before I had internet and was still on my local BBS. I spent 6+ hours downloading the original DNF trailer. Of course, it takes less than a minute now on youtube ...

That trailer actually has some spooky similarities to HL and HL2 ... especially about the 1:30 and 2:00 minute marks.

Long live the king.

My first Linux distro was Mandrake after reading an interview in PC Authority (1997?) with RMS and another article about Linus and Linux. The auto-partioner set up roughly 8 or 9 partitions for me (one for /, /etc/ /boot/ /home/ ...). I was thrilled when it finally installed and I was playing Frozen Bubble and had a stack other free software immediately, but I soon nuked it in favour of Gentoo - then SuSE and then Gentoo again.

I'm on Ubuntu now running ion3

I had Gain Ground on the Master System and you get it for the PSP now in the Sega Classics Collection ...