Comment: Re:Adding it to my wishlist... (Score 5, Funny) 98
You could always use the tried-and-true "choose your own adventure" format.
If you disagree with this post, turn to page 57 for an untimely death.
+ - 3 PS3s Used to "See"->
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Form-o-Stuff writes "Researchers at UC Irvine and Dartmouth College were among the first-place winners of IBM's Cell Broadband Engine Professor University Challenge for networking 3 Playstation-3s to mimic the brain's visual process.
"The efficiency of the team's work with the system became evident when it was reported that there is only a one-second delay in the amount of time that it takes for the device to recognize an object."
From the UC Irvine school paper."
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+ - New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned
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Ant writes "Dark Horizons report after much talk and posturing over the future of "The Terminator" franchise/series in recent years, something surprising has happened... The Halcyon Company has acquired the franchise rights to the popular "The Terminator" movie series and intend to make a new trilogy that would anchor their movie company..."
+ - Indie video game Gish $121,000 sales statsrevealed
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Game Producer writes "Indie video game Gish sales statistics and production revealed. Gish sold roughly $121,000, and was created by three developers in just six months."
+ - Hubble Space telescope detects ring of Dark Matter
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mknewman
mknewman writes "NASA Breaking News http://www.nasa.gov/rss/breaking_news.rss is reporting that NASA will hold a media confrence on May 15 at 1pm EDT to discuss the stongest evidence to date that Dark Matter exists."
+ - Watching Star Wars in Tehran
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Anonymous Coward writes "New on the Bad Guys blog:
The Iranians finally got around to showing Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith on TV last month, with some added commentary. Turns out we Americans have the story all wrong. George Lucas's sci-fi saga, they tell us, is in fact a parable about our own day and age. And guess who the bad guys are... So George Bush is Anakin Skywalker... Dick Cheney — he must be Darth Sidious. Or is he Count Dooku? More at:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/badguys/070508/w atching_star_wars_in_tehran.htm"
The Iranians finally got around to showing Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith on TV last month, with some added commentary. Turns out we Americans have the story all wrong. George Lucas's sci-fi saga, they tell us, is in fact a parable about our own day and age. And guess who the bad guys are... So George Bush is Anakin Skywalker... Dick Cheney — he must be Darth Sidious. Or is he Count Dooku? More at:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/badguys/070508/