It’s only 10 days till iPhone and it has already received its first upgrade! That’s a right! Now your $500 or $600 is going to get you more than it was. Apple has juiced up the battery (and it would seem optimized the hardware because different usages have gone up different amounts, proportionally - [...]

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You, my precious reader, may be surprised to hear that Nunatak far from being the Church’s militant nun wing is actually the house band of the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica. I recently shared a cab with a lady who worked for several years in the station and it seems like a pretty stange kind [...]

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First we have this strange story of a Ben Carpenter, a man in a wheelchair because of muscular distrophy. Well, he was trying to cross a highway and the traffic light changed before he was across and a semi plowed into him. I guess he must’ve been right in front of it because instead of [...]

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This article is cool, exciting and scary all rolled up into one, like a rollercoaster ride! Some big brains implanted a tiny computer chip into a quadriplegic’s brain that allowed him to type 15 words per second, mouse around a screen and remote control a tv. What’s even better is that they think that soon [...]

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Well Boston finally gave up on trying to get Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens behind bars. The two who were charged with putting up “hoax” terrorist devices around Boston. Charges were dropped in exchange for community service and a public apology. The whole thing was ridiculous and while I can totally and completely understand the [...]

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Hoo boy. Ok. So you remember the Mooninite debacle in Boston? Yeah the one where the Bostonian government decided that a bunch of lightbrites depicting a cartoon character were bombs and essentially shut down the city disposing of them? Well now in a blaze of ass covering glory they are trying to put a new [...]

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Ok, get this. In the UK some guy made a bet with his bookie that he’d live to 100 (he was 90 at the time). He put up £100 and the bookie gave him 250-1 odds. Jokes on the bookie cause this guy decided to live the safest life he could, just to pick up [...]

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Just in case you had too much time on your hands and wanted some more flash games, check out this bunch here at gasgames. There’s a ton of them but my favourites are Fulfillment, Apartheid, Centrifuge and Constellation. They’re all puzzley type games, so if you liked tetris, you might dig these. Doesn’t take (me) [...]

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So in the ever increasing blurring of virtual and physical world, I just read this piece on a new virtual currency in China, the QQ, (via techmeme, I think..) that is increasingly being used for physical world purchases. In some ways this is similar to Linden Dollars and their exchange, but the QQ seems more [...]

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If you always wanted to play a game where you were Spiderman, but were put off by him having bones and not being drunk and what not, this may be the flash game for you… Called Double Wires, you are a stick figure who can barely stand with a line in each hand. The goal [...]

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