Original Nintendo/Sony PlayStation prototype found

LowCommotion FTW! (Games, Random)

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http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2007/06/07/original-nintendo-sony-playstation-prototype-found/1 

GUYLINER: A DoubleViking Exposé

LowCommotion FTW! (Educational, WTF?!)

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http://www.doubleviking.com/guyliner-a-doubleviking-expos–5736-p.html

You’re telling me that the evil, seductive powers of the alien symbiote caused Peter to walk down to a local pharmacy and buy a beauty product, all to show how he has changed as a person? If anything, Peter should (and otherwise does) get sloppier:  messy hair, a douchebaggy attitude and indifference to the feeling of others. But why would a devil-may-care asshole like post-symbiote Peter go to the trouble of applying makeup, of all things?

Soviet-Era Arcade Games Crawl Out of Their Cold War Graves

LowCommotion FTW! (Games, Travel)

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http://www.wired.com/gaming/hardware/news/2007/06/soviet_games

Last month, the four officially opened the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines in a Stalin-era bomb shelter under a university dormitory. Packed into two rooms are dozens of Soviet-made video game carcasses in various states of repair. Some work perfectly; others last for a few minutes, then fade. One common feature among them all is a lack of a high-score list.

“That kind of competition wasn’t encouraged,” explains Alexander Stakhanov, one of the museum’s founders and engineers. “If you got enough points you won a free game, but there was no ‘high score’ culture as in the West.” 

Deep Hole Found on Mars

LowCommotion FTW! (Science, Space)

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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070605_mars_hole.html

The geological oddity measures some 330 feet (100 meters) across and is located on an otherwise bright dusty lava plain to the northeast of Arsia Mons, one of the four giant Tharsis volcanoes on the red planet.

The hole might be the sort of place that could support life or serve as a habitat for future astronauts, researchers speculated.

HiRISE image specialists said the pit must be very deep to prevent detection of the floor from natural daylight, which is quite bright on Mars.

Shop Once, Eat for a Week

LowCommotion FTW! (Educational, Food)

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http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?conitem=6a5649d66738d010VgnVCM10000013281eac____

Set aside 20 minutes on Sunday to fulfill our 16-item shopping list, then forget about your wallet — and collection of takeout menus — for the rest of the workweek. By following our 5-day menu, you’ll have the precise number of ingredients to create 10 fast, flavorful meals, all of which are designed to help you build muscle and melt fat while saving you money.

Most IT projects in Europe are late

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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070605-most-it-projects-in-europe-are-late.html

European IT departments don’t face nearly as much pressure as their Asian and American counterparts to deliver projects on time, according to a new survey. The BBC reports that 51 percent of European IT workers did not face the prospect of losing their jobs if corporate IT projects were delayed. That number is far higher than in Asia (33 percent) or the Americas (22 percent).

Bad news for cereal lovers

LowCommotion FTW! (Food, Money, WTF?!)

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http://www.slashfood.com/2007/06/06/bad-news-for-cereal-lovers-in-so-many-ways/

Because of unfavorable weather conditions in key areas (who knew one of the places we get our wheat for cereal from was the Black Sea region of the Ukraine??), the cost of wheat is going up, and if those prices continue to be high then companies like Kellogg and General Mills will have to raise prices on their boxes of cereal.

If that wasn’t enough bad news? The price of milk is also going up! Milk prices in the U.S. are up 3% this year, and could skyrocket towards the end of the year.

wheat from ukraine?  WTF?

Man in wheelchair pushed down highway by semitrailer

LowCommotion FTW! (Cars, Travel, WTF?!)

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A 21-year-old Kalamazoo, Mich., man, unidentified by police, in this a motorized wheelchair, found himself stuck to the front grill of this semi truck and pushed eastbound on Red Arrow Highway near Paw Paw, Mich., Wednesday, June 6, 2007, for four miles (6.4 kilometers) at about 50 mph (80 kph), authorities said. The young man, reportedly unhurt, was quoted by police as saying, ‘It was quite a ride.’

thanks yahoo

Classroom Device Prompts Participation

Listener FTW! (Educational, Kids, PC Tech)

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http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=98079

“If you raise your hand and get the answer wrong, nobody could laugh at you. If you plug it in nobody knows what your answer is,” says student Angelo Higgins.

Beyond the class participation issue, teachers say using these devices gives them immediate feedback about how kids are doing, and whether they grasp certain concepts.

Katharine McPhee is HOT in Vegas Magazine

Listener FTW! (Celebrities, Sexy)

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http://hollywood.outsidethebeltway.com/2007/06/katharine-mcphee-is-hot-in-vegas-magazine/