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news: 5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted

(By capnasty on 2010-03-12 11:00:45) Cracked.com asks: are some games intentionally designed to keep you compulsively playing, even when you're not enjoying it? Oh, hell yes, it answers, and their methods are downright creepy. (via gamejester)

news: The Secret Origin of Microsoft Windows

(By capnasty on 2010-03-12 10:03:25) A quarter century ago, Windows wasn't everywhere. In fact, some were doubtful it would ever ship at all. And Tandy Trower was there. In this article, Trower recounts the inside story of his experience in transforming Windows from vapour-ware into a product that has left an unmistakable imprint on the world, 25 years after it was first released.

news: The demise of the music industry is visible everywhere but in the facts

(By capnasty on 2010-03-12 09:41:59) If music executives sold bottled water, they'd be calling for a ban on tapwater downloads at home as unfair competition. Yet the bottled water industry should have been their model. It got away with charging us lots of money for a product that was no better than free tapwater through clever marketing.

news: The Prime Minister is on YouTube, and He Takes Questions

(By capnasty on 2010-03-11 14:00:52) In turning to YouTube to get his message out to Canadians "unfiltered" by the national media, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has opened up a YouTube can of worms. More than 170 questions have poured in from across the country, asking the prime minister about just about everything under the sun, including whether he was sporting a toupe.

news: Wacky and Creative iPhone Cases

(By capnasty on 2010-03-11 13:00:14) With nearly 50 million iPhones sold to date, there are hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of iPhone cases that have been created. This article compiles some of the most creative ones, but also a few of the wackiest and most unusal iPhone cases that we have ever seen.

news: You Can Now Buy Your Own Jetpack

(By capnasty on 2010-03-11 12:03:51) Although we are all disappointed that the 21st Century didn't deliver on those flying cars, the Martin Jetpack now comes to the rescue. Conveniently priced at only $86,000, this jetpack will deliver 30 minutes of flight thanks to its two powerful fans strapped to your back. Just don't look down.

news: Car-puccino: 56 Espressos per Mile

(By capnasty on 2010-03-11 11:00:30) A team from the BBC1 science programme Bang Goes the Theory has unveiled a car that runs on coffee. Christened as Car-puccino, the car is actually a modified version of a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco. The running cost of the vehicle has been estimated at between 25 and 50 times the cost of running a car on petrol.

news: Toyota Simulator

(By capnasty on 2010-03-11 10:00:19) If you don't own a Toyota and want to know what it is like to be trapped in a car with a stuck accelerator, travelling at speeds in the vicinity of 150 kilometres per hour, wait no longer and try the Toyota Simulator.

news: The Devil is in the Vatican

(By capnasty on 2010-03-11 09:08:23) According to Father Gabriele Amorth, who has been the Vatican's chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession, the sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican".

news: The Average Twitter User

(By capnasty on 2010-03-11 00:35:45) Mashable reports on a new study from security firm Barracuda Labs, which provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the stats say that only 21% of Twitter users are active users.