This is one trippy platform/puzzle game. The music doesn't make any sense, every single sound FX is just plain wrong and the characters' are just ... weird! Still, I have no idea why, but the combination really works awesomely well to make an extremely addictive game!! You've got to try it.
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Saturday, March 03, 2007
White Stripes Announce Icky New Album
They're baaaaack! The White Stripes announced on their website late last night that their sixth album, which bears the excellently bizarre title of Icky Thump, will be released "as soon as corporately possible."
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Pentagon Whistle-Blower on the Coming War With Iran
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (ret.), a veteran of the Pentagon with firsthand experience of the administration’s cherry-picking of intelligence, reveals why Bush thinks he can win a war with Iran, why few politicians are serious about withdrawal and why “when they call Iraq a success, they mean it.”Update: Full transcript added
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VMWare Fusion Beta 2 comes with "Experimental 3D Acceleration"
VMWare drops a mini-bomb on the Mac virtualization world with its most recent beta, which features "experimental" 3D graphics acceleration. But, it doesn't support all games.
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Friday, March 02, 2007
Kucinich introduces bill to immediately end Iraq occ
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced HR 1234, a bill to immediately end the United States occupation of Iraq, in the House of Representatives
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Latest Leopard build (9A377a) from Apple suggests much work ahead
A new build of Apple's Leopard operating system released to developers this week introduces a handful of fresh features, but also carries with it a significant laundry list of impending issues that will need to be ironed out before any such public release is considered. Over 30 major bugs exist, some critical, making rumors of a March launch seem..
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5 1/2 Ways Politicians Can Take Advantage of YouTube Politics
Here are 5 1/2 ways for political campaigns to take advantage of this unique opportunity by creating and uploading videos specifically for the YouTube community.
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RFID Staples! Brilliant!!!
From the Sci-Fi channel's Tech blog:"In the not-so-distant future, as you're rummaging through piles of coffee-stained reports on your desk looking for the correct one for your meeting, you may be able to enlist technology to help you find it."Cool.
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The RIAA P2PLawsuit Letter Sent To College Students
Justin McElroy at the Herald-Dispatch sends us a link to a PDF of the letter RIAA lawyers sent to college students, accusing them of infringing copyright and offering to settle if they identify themselves and confess.
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Google GDrive isn't a rumor
Google themselves have acknowledged that a GDrive is in development. Soon we will be able to use our G: to save and access files remotely.
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Geeks Take Down Dirty C-Level Executives - With Email
Two geeks at a small tech startup find out that their CFO and a few other executives are not only planning on selling the company and terminating all the employees, but padding their own pockets with millions and screwing the board of directors/investors. The two geeks take matters into their own hands using linux, postfix and some ingenuity.
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Sony's Blu-ray Goof
A reporter from PC Magazine showed up at a Sony event in NYC where the company was displaying their new AR laptop and mobile pc. While there, Sony was playing a Blu-ray DVD, "The House of Flying Daggers." But when the reporter ejected the DVD, it was really a DVD-R! Sony wasn't too happy.
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Google News gets foiled by 15-year old
Tom Vandetta found an article that explained how to fool Google's news system by writing fake press releases. He then decided to see what would happen if he submitted a fake Google press release claiming the 15-year old New Jersey student was Google's youngest employee.
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Google Launches "Google Mars"
Google has just launched a new service called "Google Mars" that lets you browse the martian land just as you would with Google Maps.
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Why windows takes so long to start up.
Most of us have had a brand new computer at one time. It's a great feeling. You boot up windows and within 30 seconds you are surfing the net, checking your email, or playing your favorite game. 10 months down the road things aren't so nice anymore. You power up your computer and it seems to take forever to load.
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Google Calendar Is Launching Tonight
It looks like Google Calender could be launching tonight! The official Google Calendar logo was found on Google's servers and calendar.google.com redirects to the actual CL2 login screen now.
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YouTube adds “Digg this” button!!!
ouTube has introduced a hefty amount of new features. Among them is the possibility to block certain users, improved search (plus YouTube videos being indexed on Google Video Search), fixed messaging, more options for customizing channels, and several others.
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What America could buy for $145 billion dollars (the 2007 Iraq war budget).
The Iraq war will cost Americans $145 billion dollars this year alone. That $145 billion could buy free tuition, room, and board for every student in a public university or college, and there would still be enough money left over to end hunger in America four times over. Digg this story and help spread the word on how our taxes are being spent.
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How I (color blind person) see the world!
After 26 years I discovered that I see the world in a different way than all others see it!I'm a successful web designer, and a lot of people were asking me "so, what do you see!!". This post is to make you see what exactly I see.
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Senator Ted Stevens Downloads the Entire Internet and Complains It's Slow!
Regarding a recent vote, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explained why he voted against the amendment (basic net neutrality) and gave an amazing primer on how the Internet works: "It's a series of tubes." and "...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday." Story includes an mp3 link.
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*PIC* Kevin and Alex in GoDaddy's Super Bowl ad
Bonus points to Alex for wearing a Diggnation shirt! (Ignore the other one I submitted- I didn't pay attention to it going to a page requiring a sign in. I'm lame and hang my head in shame for that.)
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Amazing Folding Couch! Unbelievable Video!
The sofa appears to be made out of hundreds of thin, flat chair-shaped silhouettes, joined together by some kind of membrane in an accordion that can collapse down into a dictionary-think chunk or be spread out for feet on end, as a divan, chair or sofa. (via BoingBoing)
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Digg This and then replace just ONE bulb with a Compact Fluorescent...
Typical bulb = 100w, a CF bulb that outputs the same amount of light = 23w, a difference of 77w. Multiply that number by total # of US Households (~120 million) & you can see that if every home switched out 1 bulb, then we would save about 9.24 Billion watts of electricity per kw/hour -Enough energy to curb emission levels of nearly 800,000 cars
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Water so clear it boggles the mind
A single boat seemingly floats in midair in the beautiful crystal clear beaches in the Republic of Maldives in the Indian Ocean.
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In case of a terrorist attack... follow these hilarious signs
The Dept. of Homeland Security has released these signs to help you prepare for an attack. Now safenow.org has provided their own interpretation, hilarity ensued.
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The Complete Ownage of a Woman
I'll try to sum up a funny story that happened a few years ago: I got a vasectomy. I met a girl soon afterwards. She was nice and attractive but with a selfish streak that raised a big red flag. She was 32 at the time and I could practically HEAR her biological clock ticking. Regardless, she was a good lay, easy on the eyes, and reasonably g...
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New York teen sues record Industry
A New York teen, dubbed a pirate by the Record Industry, is counter suing them for defamation, violating anti-trust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.
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pic of Aqua Teen "terrorists" laughing in court
Honestly, God Bless these guys, the picture says it all. This thing was harmless and the Boston authorities over reacted, the news stretched the truth (what panic exactly?), and these poor guys get charged. Digg this to the top in support of Sean and Peter.
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A New Controler That Lets You Control Video Games with Your Mind
Step aside Nintendo, Emotiv's got dibs on the ultimate game controller right here with their Project Epoc. It's basically a headset fitted with a bunch of sensors that "read" your mind and let you control video games (be it from your console or PC) via your thoughts. It'll be demoed at the Game Developer's Conference next week.
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